Here's a puzzler for you!

deman · 07-10-2009, 16:24

I was quite a semi-regular poster on these forums for a few years now but hadn't been able to post anything easily up until a couple of days ago.

Two years ago, I moved house and also changed my ISP. Got a wireless router with the deal. But for some reason, now, I wasn't able to connect my laptop or desktop to boards.ie through the router. If I took my laptop to work, I could access boards.ie no problem so I put the problem down to my router. I contacted my ISP and they told me it wasn't the router and they had not been blocking boards.ie either. So I continued to read boards but only through the mobile and posting was a pain in the behind.

That was until the weekend. My laptop crashed and I lost everything!! I tried to reinstall XP but as I didn't have a Restore Plus Kit, it would let me. I tried the only other Windows disc I had, Windows 98, but it was no good either. So, I went to my desktop and downloaded Linux Ubuntu. Installed in on to a flash drive and plugged it into the USB of my laptop. Installation was successful and I now had a working OS on my laptop again.

So yesterday, while browsing the net and adding some bookmarks, I thought I'd look up boards.ie again. It came up in a flash!! Everything was there again and I can post again. Great!!! It's great to be back.... but..... what was the problem??? I can't for the life of me figure it out.

Any ideas??

FruitLover · 07-10-2009, 17:23

Kind of hard to analyze the problem retroactively, but my best guess would be that you somehow had an incorrect entry for boards in your 'hosts' file.

ravydavygravy · 08-10-2009, 08:59

Solar flares. That'd be my guess.

Johnboy1951 · 08-10-2009, 10:33

A MicroSoft conspiracy, without doubt.

codecrunchers · 08-10-2009, 10:53

Quote:

But for some reason, now, I wasn't able to connect my laptop or desktop to boards.ie through the router

What kind of error did you get?

deman · 08-10-2009, 16:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by codecrunchers

What kind of error did you get?

I didn't get an error. It took about 5 minutes for it to come up and then it was in an extremely basic format with no graphics, no menu (at the top) and all text was standard blue link and Roman Times font. When I clicked on a link, I'd have to wait another five minutes.

Sean_K · 08-10-2009, 16:27

Internet Explorer.

deman · 08-10-2009, 17:20

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Originally Posted by Sean_K

Internet Explorer.

It was the same story whether I used Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome. Didn't matter which I used. They were all the same.

07-10-2009, 16:24	#1
deman Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 872 Adverts \| Friends	Here's a puzzler for you! I was quite a semi-regular poster on these forums for a few years now but hadn't been able to post anything easily up until a couple of days ago. Two years ago, I moved house and also changed my ISP. Got a wireless router with the deal. But for some reason, now, I wasn't able to connect my laptop or desktop to boards.ie through the router. If I took my laptop to work, I could access boards.ie no problem so I put the problem down to my router. I contacted my ISP and they told me it wasn't the router and they had not been blocking boards.ie either. So I continued to read boards but only through the mobile and posting was a pain in the behind. That was until the weekend. My laptop crashed and I lost everything!! I tried to reinstall XP but as I didn't have a Restore Plus Kit, it would let me. I tried the only other Windows disc I had, Windows 98, but it was no good either. So, I went to my desktop and downloaded Linux Ubuntu. Installed in on to a flash drive and plugged it into the USB of my laptop. Installation was successful and I now had a working OS on my laptop again. So yesterday, while browsing the net and adding some bookmarks, I thought I'd look up boards.ie again. It came up in a flash!! Everything was there again and I can post again. Great!!! It's great to be back.... but..... what was the problem??? I can't for the life of me figure it out. Any ideas?? __________________ ---Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad---

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ravydavygravy Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Kildare Posts: 450 Adverts \| Friends	Solar flares. That'd be my guess. __________________ ======================================================================== ===== Dave Masterson - PSN: davema - Clan: [AK47] - GPG: Here - Twitter: Here ====== ========================================================================

08-10-2009, 16:27	#7
Sean_K Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Co. Dublin Posts: 5,524 Adverts \| Friends	Internet Explorer. __________________ *Dropbox: Free file backup, sync and storage* This is a referral link. Sign up using it and we both get an extra 0.25 GiB

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07-10-2009, 17:23	#2
FruitLover Butt Demon Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,779 Adverts \| Friends	Kind of hard to analyze the problem retroactively, but my best guess would be that you somehow had an incorrect entry for boards in your 'hosts' file.

08-10-2009, 10:33	#4
Johnboy1951 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 358 Adverts \| Friends	A MicroSoft conspiracy, without doubt.