Issue with accessing the forums outside of the UK?

Rifte · 19 Sep 2017 at 07:54

I live in Asia most of the year and as of the last few days accessing the forums has been impossible without a VPN.

Can a mod comment if this is going to be a permanent feature to stop the spam that floods the forums every now and again?

I suppose there is the off chance that access has been forbidden in India (where I am at the moment), but I cant access it from my business line, my home line or my mobile line (all different ISPS).

No-One · 19 Sep 2017 at 08:34

Sounds like something at your end. I've been in Tenerife for the last 10 days and haven't had any problems

Rifte · 19 Sep 2017 at 09:51

No-One said:
Sounds like something at your end. I've been in Tenerife for the last 10 days and haven't had any problems

Sounds like it then. VPN it is at the moment.

Dirk Diggler · 19 Sep 2017 at 09:51

I've been accessing from Canary Islands without issue.

Glanza · 19 Sep 2017 at 09:52

Have India got their own great firewall like China?

Possible that something on the forums has flagged an auto block.

Mr Badger · 19 Sep 2017 at 09:59

I've accessed this site from 3 different European countries within the last week (currently in Poland) with no problem.

Rifte · 19 Sep 2017 at 10:13

Glanza said:
Have India got their own great firewall like China?

Possible that something on the forums has flagged an auto block.

No idea.

Its a strange country and numerous websites that are perfectly legitimate have been blocked by the government because of its alleged link to hardcore pornography. (i.e the Bleacher Report), and then with the more obvious ones its no issue, a 'friend' tells me that pornhub is perfectly fine.

Might be an autoblock thing? I know every now and again the forum gets spammed with messages from China offering all sorts of fake examinations etc. So maybe its an autoblock?

Its not a major issue for me because I use a VPN to access a lot of UK content anyway.

[FnG]magnolia · 19 Sep 2017 at 11:30

I've been logging in since 2009 from New Zealand. The problem might be at your end.

I also log in at Theoph ... I've said too much.

Maccy · 19 Sep 2017 at 11:39

Nope, some IP's may be blocked when doing new user registrations because they've been flagged by spam though.

Feef · 19 Sep 2017 at 11:44

All been fine in Taiwan.

Scania · 19 Sep 2017 at 13:41

Noticed it was very hit and miss when I was in Cyprus in May, absolutely no problem when I went in August though (from the same I.P)

Skidder · 19 Sep 2017 at 22:09

posting from Bahrain. I travel a horrible amount and not an issue for me.

Malevolence · 19 Sep 2017 at 22:39

Wasn't there a spate of Indian spambots not too long back, spamming about gurus and love lives or something? Perhaps your IP got caught up in that filtering.

Werewolf · 19 Sep 2017 at 22:40

AFAIK we don't have many restrictions on viewing the forums.

It could well be routing issues or something (I know as a UK resident I'm having issues with really slow connections to some US sites at the moment).

Caged · 19 Sep 2017 at 23:54

All green according to https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime

Glaucus · 19 Sep 2017 at 23:57

im for ever using a vpn (currently france vpn) and have no issue accessing the forums, nor did i have issues in Portugal.
sounds like you have a dns issue which is resolved when using a vpn.

Rifte · 20 Sep 2017 at 08:57

Glaucus said:
im for ever using a vpn (currently france vpn) and have no issue accessing the forums, nor did i have issues in Portugal.
sounds like you have a dns issue which is resolved when using a vpn.

This is probably it, because today I am able to access it without a VPN.

Werewolf said:
AFAIK we don't have many restrictions on viewing the forums.

It could well be routing issues or something (I know as a UK resident I'm having issues with really slow connections to some US sites at the moment).

Thanks for the clarification as well.

Anchundan · 22 Sep 2017 at 09:10

no problems here in China