James Elsey wrote:
Hey Guys,
I'm experiencing rather odd behaviour with my internet connection at home recently, and I'm hoping some of the BT / Telecoms guys out there may have some pointers.
I have a terrible connection anyway, around 0.2-0.5Mb at the best of times (was I refered to as the "pauper" or "peasent" of the connection ladder?) Over the past few weeks I'm completely unable to access particular websites, most notably Paypal, national-lotter.co.uk, LinkedIn, and pretty much 50% of any search results in google I want to go to.
This is happening across all machines on my network, linux and windows alike, wired and wireless, and also my iphone(unless I put it on 3g)
I have a netgear DG834T router, about 6-7 years old. There are no blocked sites and as far as I know the configuration hasn't be altered in some time, so no reason for it to suddenly alter.
I am on(...dont laugh)..AOL..
Why not?
Traceroutes below, as you can see google is fine, but paypal and linkedin are no-goes. any suggestions?
Sorry, must suggest you get a proper ISP. Get a free account with (say) GMX - www.gmx.com You have a choice of several different methods of connecting, including webmail and POP3.
I got straight in to your targets on GMX (webmail) and with Paston (Thunderbird under Xandros), using an Eee and a Vodafone dongle with only GPRS coverage here.