Very confused about what could be wrong

basmic · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:19

Basically I've had constant problems accessing eBay and Hotmail the last few days.

Today it dawned on me to try and access them on another computer on my network - low and behold it works! :eek:

I've cleared all my cookies, temporary internet files, checked for Spyware - but I can't find a sausage wrong!

Any clues?

Zefan · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:20

Try clearing ALL browsers cache (not just firefox etc, but IE too). Unless of course you've already done this.

Felix Da Housecat · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:22

How about firewalls?

CoXeY · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:22

Who is your ISP? I know NTL customers have been experiencing problems recently...

Zefan · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:25

He said another PC on his network is fine, so I'm presuming they're running off the same connection which means that it's not the NTL problem. I was gonna mention it before I noticed that.

basmic · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:25

Zefan said:
Try clearing ALL browsers cache (not just firefox etc, but IE too). Unless of course you've already done this.

Done this, and cleared all cookies.

custom1 said:
How about firewalls?

Well I set it to Allow All - but I'm going to completely reinstall it in a minute.

CoXeY said:
Who is your ISP? I know NTL customers have been experiencing problems recently...

NTL - I knew they had problems, and thought this down to it. But when I loaded eBay on a different machine (on the same network, which is linked (via a Linksys WRT54GS router) to the same cable-modem), that totally threw me.

Zefan · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:26

Reinstall network drivers? Repair network connection. That's all I can think of.

basmic · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:29

Well just uninstalled the firewall, and browsing the internet without it - still having problems with eBay and Hotmail.

Time to reinstall sygate.

basmic · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:36

Grrrrrrr - still won't work. How do I reinstall TCP/IP drivers?

leezer3 · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:43

I would try rebooting, then running ipconfig/ flushdns before trying to reinstall the TCP-IP stuff- Sounds like a simple DNS resolving problem to me. (Quite possibly cached the junk NTL addresses)

-Leezer-

basmic · 14 Mar 2006 at 13:55

Phew, sorted!

Ran WinSock XP Fix, rebooted - read leezer3's post, flushed DNS. Tada, it worked!

So not too sure if it was the DNS or WinSock that was the problem - either way, dilema of reinstalling over. :eek: