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Broadband connectionModem?? problem

  • 31-01-2009 11:30pm
    #1
    djt0607
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I have a zyxel broadband modem which i got off esat bt about 2 years ago when i first got broadband. Over the past 3 or 4 weeks I have been experiencing something weird happening. Lets just say im happily merrily surfing the web, and lets say i enter some address, my connection just halts as no webpage is loaded. If i go to www.google.ie, it loads that. If i click on "images", "books", "news", etc on the google website, it loads those webpages perfectly which would imply to me that I have internet connetivity.(i previously cleared all my cookies, etc.. so its not loading offline content). However, if i try go to www.skysports.com or any other website, the webpages arent loading.
    Is this a problem with my modem or is there something more to this?

    thanks

    dan.


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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,763 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    djt0607 wrote: »
    Hi,

    I have a zyxel broadband modem which i got off esat bt about 2 years ago when i first got broadband. Over the past 3 or 4 weeks I have been experiencing something weird happening. Lets just say im happily merrily surfing the web, and lets say i enter some address, my connection just halts as no webpage is loaded. If i go to www.google.ie, it loads that. If i click on "images", "books", "news", etc on the google website, it loads those webpages perfectly which would imply to me that I have internet connetivity.(i previously cleared all my cookies, etc.. so its not loading offline content). However, if i try go to www.skysports.com or any other website, the webpages arent loading.
    Is this a problem with my modem or is there something more to this?

    thanks

    dan.

    When it fails to load a page, is there any error message? Can you ping skysports.com?


  • #3
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    I used a Zytel for the last 2 years and no problem.
    Check all connections .........even cobwebs can interrupt your signal .

    Could you do a test using ......tools - diagnose connection problems etc .......
    Maybe a RAM upgrade may help .

    I also suggest you call :
    1890 923 111 or visit www.btireland.ie/help


  • #4
    djt0607
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭djt0607


    thanks for your replies. my connection is grand - no cobwebs lol. i cann ping skysports, but i get no reply. Even though i have already got 3gb of ram in my system, i can tell you that the ram has absolutely ntohing to do with a webpage loading...unless you have a really low amount of ram in your system )eg 16mb or something like that). and even at that, the webpage would eventually load, it would just take quite a long time as there would be an awful lot of page swapping going on.


  • #5
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,763 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    djt0607 wrote: »
    thanks for your replies. my connection is grand - no cobwebs lol. i cann ping skysports, but i get no reply. Even though i have already got 3gb of ram in my system, i can tell you that the ram has absolutely ntohing to do with a webpage loading...unless you have a really low amount of ram in your system )eg 16mb or something like that). and even at that, the webpage would eventually load, it would just take quite a long time as there would be an awful lot of page swapping going on.

    Try switch to the opendns DNS servers briefly and see if makes a difference.


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