Hi, I removed line 017 but still no luck. What I have found odd though is that even though I have cleared the History, deleted cookies and deleted files, that when I then go into Internet Explorer and begin to type the Hotmail URL the URL pops up to auto-complete even though my History appers to be empy. Could there still be dodgy files lurking somewhere?

Well lets find out if IE is in some way not compatable with the Modem/Router at your house.

Download the Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser From here.

Overall it is a better browser with tabs and more security than IE.

Try acessing the site on Firefox and see if they load up.

I installed Firefox, and tried to access Hotmail and also Google but the page wouldn't load and I received the message "Unable to connect; Firefox can't establish a connection..."

Any ideas? :-)

Actually I'm running out of ideas. I can't seem to find a reason that you cant access certain sites from one router but you can from another. The only reason I can think of is that the Modem/router is set to block those sites or something like that.

I'll talk to some of our mods and see if they have any ideas.

Only one thing come to mind at the moment, and that is: given the fact that the computer can connect to secure sites at other locations, I'd start looking at the home router's settings.

I'm on my way out to class right now, but I'll come back to this in a few hours. In the mean time, can anyone pass us a link to an English version of that router's manual? I don't read German.

Yeh that's the problem with the router, I'd like to try and adjust the settings on it but the router is only in German. It's in German as I'm currently working in the country. It'd be great if anybody could get hold of an English manual for the router! I will be away for the next 2 weeks so I won't have internet access till then just so you know. Again, thanks for everybodies help!

Oh, so we're both in the same boat, eh? I was hoping that you might at least be able to translate some of the settings for us. Hmm... I'll see what I can turn up while you're gone.

I have this exact same problem. I went away for the weekend and when I come back this happens. I tried many things including disconecting my router (linksys wireless g router) and using my cable modem directly to my computer nothing happend. I tried using internet explorer instead of Firefox nothing different. I tried pinging one of the websites with command promp and it failed , but I used an internet ping site and it worked perfect and the websites where online. I used a proxy (ctunnel.com)(atunnel.com) these did not work then I tried firewalldown.com and it didnt work so I clicked the CGI version of the site instead of the PHP proxy version and the CGI site worked and I could go to all the blocked pages. I really have no idea what happend I got rid of norton anti virus about 2 weeks ago since my subscription ran out and I can check viruses with the 20 other free programs and AOL does something too my computer is virus free right now. I have always used a router to get on and the sites worked fine. I dont think I can think of anything else that could have happend. I checked internet settings in the control pannel on windows XP and settings in IE and FireFox. It couldent be the router because I disconnected it and used the modem direct to PC. It is just totally random that this happend any help is greatly appreciated thanks in advance.\\

edit VERY STRANGE now I can access some of the websites I couldent before (kingsofchaos.com)ext.. I tried again and they worked but some other sites that had worked before dont now.

Even though you have the same problem unlike other sites we don't allow piggybacking off other peoples posts, because nobody really has the EXACT same problem as someone else and it can get confusing. So make a new thread with the same post as above and someone will get on it also include a HJT log.