Is there any method to this madness? I'm online right now via the LAN. I had made my initial assesment based on a few sites I had a problem accessing but now I realize that there are a whole bunch of sites that I can access without a problem, but also many that I cannot access normally.
I started making a list in the last few minutes of both the sites with and without problems to see if there was some pattern, but I don't see any. Does this make any sense at all?
PROBLEM WEB SITES:
(Either took very long time to load; or just the background color or top navigation bar loaded; or timed out.)
Techbargains home page
Cnn (It popped up after a couple of minutes. Then I hit "refresh" as a test. After 5 minutes I still have a blank screen and an hourglass. Finally after 10-15 minutes the site popped up. I clicked on a link to an article, got the navigation bar at the top of the page, but no article, just like the problem with NYTimes.com)
NYTimes.com
MSN
Hotmail (No problem with the login page, but then couldn't get to mail.)
Microsft.com (Got the navigation bar at top, rest of page didn't load, but I didn't get an hourglass like I usually do.)
washingtonpost.com
support.microsft.com
ebay (half.com was okay, but when I clicked on link leading back to ebay I had the same problem)
NO PROBLEM ACCESSING THESE WEB SITES:
pcmech
Fastmail
Fatwallet
Fatwallet forum
Techbargains forum (but not techbargains home page!)
Yahoo
MyYahoo
Yahoomail
Fastmail forum (
www.emailaddresses.com)
MSNBC.com (no problem clicking on various links, except for slate.com link.)
windowsupdate.microsoft.com (but not other microsoft pages!)
amazon
kmart
half.com (but not ebay!)
circuitcity
bestbuy