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What's the matter with the internet?
« on: Wednesday 14 September 05 21:56 BST (UK) »
I can get on Rootschat okay - obviously - but I can't get on Familysearch, or the 1901 census (or ebay, come to that).  I know I have a slowish dial-up connection, but I've not experienced this before.  What's up?
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« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 21:58 BST (UK) »
Just Checked accessability of FamilySearch

Ok here!

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« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:00 BST (UK) »
Hi suttontrust

I have just been on the sites that you mentioned and had no problems at all.

It's strange that you can't get on them Huh


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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:02 BST (UK) »
Still can't.  Are you on broadband?
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Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.
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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:08 BST (UK) »
On occasion ISPs have "peering" or DNS problems - this is when they can't link to other areas of the internet, these problems are usually VERY short lived. Have you contacted your ISP?

Try and connect to family search using this for now, see if it works:

http://32.96.111.5
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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:09 BST (UK) »
I'm on broadband - got into both 1901 and Family search with no trouble.  I went over from dial up because I had so many problems, even when I could get on to sites everything was either painfully slow or 'timed out'  Undecided
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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:10 BST (UK) »
Im on dial up NOT Broadband

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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:19 BST (UK) »
Trystan's link doesn't work either.  On all these sites it gets halfway with a blank screen and just stays there.  I suspect it is a problem with my ISP but there's no point in telling them.  We're stuck here with KC, who have a monopoly.  That's why I won't go to broadband when there's no choice.  They don't have to provide a decent service because there's no competition.  I'll do what I need to do at work tomorrow.  Thanks for the input.
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Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:20 BST (UK) »
It may be worth contacting your ISP, as Kingston Communication may have a local problem to your street.
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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:23 BST (UK) »
If it's still a problem tomorrow I'll make waves.  But why would I be able to get onto some sites and not others? 
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Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.
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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:29 BST (UK) »
Possible reasons :-

1.All ISP's servers hold a cache of the pages visited during a certain period by their users .... in this way any lookup request for these pages is generally pretty quick.
Its only when you start asking for pages which are not in the cache that the slowdowns can occur. (this can also cause problems when you update your own webspace on these servers as they can take up to 24 hours to renew their cache of pages)

2. Number of users on at any one time

3. limited facilities leading to No. 2 .... which becomes a vicious circle.

4. poor lines ...... causing disruption to the signal
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« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:29 BST (UK) »
I changed over to Broadband about 6 months ago as I was having so much trouble with Dial up.  Best thing I ever did!!

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« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 14 September 05 22:33 BST (UK) »
The reason why you can get on some sites rather than others is  that on occasion ISPs have "peering" or DNS problems - this is when they can't link to other areas of the internet.
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