can't connect to forums from home

[shotcopper 9000]

My net's been dropping constantly for about a day, bad enough that it was essentially unusable. Now it's mostly working, but I can't load the forums on any browser on either PC or laptop on my home connection. It just times out. Multiple resets of my router haven't fixed it, nor has restarting my PC.

Am I being haunted by Stan's angry ghost or is there some other reason this might happen?

 

[LandOfTheFree]

Is it just failing to connect to the homepage with a DNS error? I had that a few months ago and hoplite, and I, tried all kinds of stuff. It just randomly fixed itself.

 

[shotcopper 9000]

Connection times out.

 

[posepsi]

do you have full exclusive control of the router? is it possible someone blocked it?

have you done a complete factory reset of the router? poked around in the settings?

is it possible that your ISP is blocking it for some reason?

 

[Chromatic Death]

This might help, but don't count on it.



First off, open command prompt as an admin.

ping 208.146.35.38 -n 2

Did you get a reply? If you didn't there's something fucked up between you and NFO- it means no packets are even getting to the forum host.

]tracert www.taconbanana.com

Check for major drop-offs or hangs, tracert traces the route of packets from your computer to a destination.

You can also use this batch file I wrote; it will flush your DNS caches, reset winsock catalog, etc.
Open notepad, paste this in, then save it as "whatever.bat", then right click and run it as an administrator.

netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh int ip reset
netsh interface ipv6 reset
netsh interface tcp reset
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
nbtstat -r
nbtstat -rr
netsh interface ip delete arpcache
pause

You could also try putting taconbanana in your hosts file to bypass DNS.

 

[shotcopper 9000]

No issues I could see on ping or traceroute. Ran flush. Still nothing, although very briefly after ping the forums loaded partway and then stalled. Do not have exclusive router access but seriously doubt anyone has fucked with it.

Net has been spotty again but TnB is the only thing that consistently refuses to load at all.

 

[Chromatic Death]

That's interesting. It's your entire house? Hm.

If you could, ping 208.146.35.38 again and post the result so I can see how long it's taking to pong back.

Did this just start recently? Are you running wired or wireless?

Are you able to connect to anything else?

If you're wireless, it could very well be wireless interference or overlap with someone else's wireless.

If that's so I'd recommend running Vistumbler spectrum analyzer and checking how many folks are on the same channel as you.

If not, your router ~OR~ Cat-5 cable (ethernet) may be going bad.

I'll help where I can, check that lot really quick when you are able to, though.

 

[Helios]

Does this only happen when trying to connect to the forums? Do other sites like google etc work fine?

 

[shotcopper 9000]

This is only recent. Began having connection issues 2 days ago which have improved slightly and are worst around midday. Mostly cleared now, these forums are the only thing I -cannot- connect to. Unsure if related, but the fancy UI when connecting to the servers doesn't show now either.

Not on wireless, can't stand the associated packet loss while gaming.

 

[Chromatic Death]

Worst around midday? That sounds like something else is pulling on your connection. Check your network activity to see if something's taking up bandwidth, try running wireshark as well to check there. Worse comes to worse call your ISP.

 

[shotcopper 9000]

It's working now.

Apparently the source of the initial internet hiccoughs was some moron not dialling before they dig, severing the main trunk line between two major exchanges, and causing all kinds of fuckery across the entire state.