Whats up with NTL BB tonight

Cyrus

I cant get into hotmail, cant upload images to boards, cant download on easynews? general wierdness anyone else?

aaronc

Cyrus wrote:

I cant get into hotmail, cant upload images to boards, cant download on easynews? general wierdness anyone else?

Yes it seems there is something wierd going on with their HTTP "transparent" proxy!

I am getting prompted to download a file when I click on the link to check my Yahoo email. I can't say I've seen this happen before and thought it was the latest IE patch playing up or similar.

Luckily since I have two PCs and two broadband connections (NTL and IBB) it quickly became apparent that this problem is only occurring when connected to NTL and is not a problem with the PC, it doesn't occur if I use the same PC out through IBB.

If there's any NTL techs out there Friday evening is probably not the best time to play with the server configs. Sunday morning would be ideal and maybe get you better overtime as well!

Aaron

oceanclub

I'm on NTL, and getting similar problems (can't access Hotmail or news server),

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johntf008

I just figured out how to fix it, which is the first time I've ever done that!

Add hotmail to Outlook Express, and synchronize the account. Simple!

oceanclub

Jumpferjesus wrote:

I just figured out how to fix it, which is the first time I've ever done that!

Add hotmail to Outlook Express, and synchronize the account. Simple!

Well, I normally access Hotmail through Outlook Express anyway, and I'm still seeing a problem - the "Checking for new messages" dialog box simply times out.

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oceanclub

Argh, and I can't send email through the Gmail web site now either! Anyone know what is going on? Has anyone contacted NTL - do you have a direct line for their broadband fault service?

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LegacyUser

So that is what the bloody hassle is!

Ye I can not post messages on certain message boards either. I do not know what is going on. I can not get into hotmail either. Hmmm

oceanclub

Weirdly, it's only my desktop that gives the problem - my laptop works fine. Both are connected through a router to NTL, with similar or identical settings- I'm not sure what they are both acting differently.

I'm sent email reporting the fault to NTL support, so hopefully they can tell us if anything changed lately.

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fatherdougalmag

Same here (south Dublin). Been like that for the past couple of days.

Rosser

I'm in D15 and it's happening here too..have mailed NTL tech support

MickFarr

Try changing your LAN settings to use a Proxy Server in the Internet Explorer options

Address = belf-cache-1.server.ntli.net
Port = 8080

LegacyUser

It Worked!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sev

My NTL seems fine.. but I have noticed that when I go too www.google.com, it redirects me to google.co.uk, instead of google.ie like it usually does.

MickFarr

cheesedude wrote:

It Worked!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice one!

Here's a link to all of NTL's Web Proxy Cache List

fatherdougalmag

Well spotted Sev. Clearly something has 'gone south' for us Irish NTLers.

And MickFarr's suggestion seems to sort the issue for now.

Caches God bless 'em.

Drapper

fatherdougalmag wrote:

Well spotted Sev. Clearly something has 'gone south' for us Irish NTLers.

And MickFarr's suggestion seems to sort the issue for now.

Caches God bless 'em.

for us no techie people whats up with NTl MSN is up and down and cant get into hotmail !

changing the proxy server srttings what does that do ?

Thanks

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oceanclub

Changing to that proxy setting worked for me too - well done that chap.

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fatherdougalmag

changing the proxy server srttings what does that do ?

Without a proxy configured your browser will try and contact the site directly. When a proxy is employed your browser requests the page from the proxy. The proxy will then go and retrieve the web page. In doing that, it also stores it locally (caches it) so that if anyone else's browser requests that page it's retrieved faster.

What it's doing for us, more than likely, is that it's changing the route which is being used to retrieve the data bypassing whatever problem is prevailing on the network.

Lenny

Yup is acting ****e for me aswell tonight with some apges

LegacyUser

put the proxy in then and see what happens.

Drapper

cheesedude wrote:

put the proxy in then and see what happens.

works

LegacyUser

I bet ya Lenny did not even try it.

Mimikyu

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Drapper

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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no ........

Mimikyu

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Drapper

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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Try this!
Try changing your LAN settings to use a Proxy Server in the Internet Explorer options

Address = belf-cache-1.server.ntli.net
Port = 8080

Mimikyu

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Drapper

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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IE Tools
Internet OPtion and click
Tab to connections
find LAN
Edit the use proxy settings to :- AS I GAVE YOU

and click ok !

close IE and restart it

:-) WORKs

Mimikyu

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Drapper

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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MSN Messenger uses IE to connect to the proxy server! so adjust IE first !

Haruspex

Thanks for posting the solution to this - was having the exact same problem!
Adding the proxy has resolved it...for now! :rolleyes: