Cannot visit the forums at home.

[LandOfTheFree]

For some reason, as of the last few days, I cannot connect to the forums from my home network. I can access them through a proxy, however. I keep getting a(n) ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT error and I've tried every fix that I could find online about it. Has anyone seen this in the past? Has anyone had this problem and has found a fix? Or is it something like my ISP?

 

[Scone !]

I get the same thing when I'm at college maybe three times a day almost at random, but I also have no idea why.

 

[Owain6521]

I had this problem a while back, and it ended up just sort of resolving itself really.

 

[Welsh]

yeah. i just switch browsers.

 

[LandOfTheFree]

Switching browsers didn't work, and nothing I could find online would work. Apparently making a post about it fixed it. Got home and it works, haha.

 

[Jackson]

Switching browsers didn't work, and nothing I could find online would work. Apparently making a post about it fixed it. Got home and it works, haha.

does it work on your mobile with wifi or is it only on your computer?

 

[LandOfTheFree]

does it work on your mobile with wifi or is it only on your computer?

It worked from my mobile wifi but not on my laptop or desktop. I assume it may have been some sort of ISP issue maybe? Or possibly to do with my modem?

 

[Jackson]

It worked from my mobile wifi but not on my laptop or desktop. I assume it may have been some sort of ISP issue maybe? Or possibly to do with my modem?

flush your dns

 

[LandOfTheFree]

With ipconfig/flushdns or whatever the command is?

 

[Jackson]

With ipconfig/flushdns or whatever the command is?

http://www.wikihow.com/Flush-DNS

 

[Arzalis]

If it happens again, do what Jackson said and flush your dns or try a different dns entirely just to see.

Alternatively, just use Google's name servers and basically never have issues related to that again.

 

[Gangleider]

yea just try google dns
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using?hl=en

 

[posepsi]

ur tubes are probably clogged, in which case flushing ur dns is just gonna make a mess

prob gonna have to buy new ethernet cables and just be more careful with large downloads in the future