I cannot access Google, Juno and a number of other sites..... any ideas why? some sites will load, others will not.... cant figure out.....

 

What messages do you get when you try to access these sites?

Try to open a DOS prompt (I'm assuming you use Windows(tm)) and first type ping 80.120.200.66
and see if you get a reply- if yes type ping www.google.com (or one of the other sites you can't access) -again let's wait for a reply. If it says 4 packets sent, 4 received we know that it's not a network problem.
If it says "unknown host" we know it's a DNS problem.

Try that and we'll go from there.

HTH

AlpineRAM

 

You can't get to Google!
Yes! My plans are working!
Woohoo!!!


(Otherwise, I have no idea at all...)

 

Meanwhile, Begle has designed a piece of software to run on the DTR site so that once you visit DTR, you will be prevented from going to the Google site that rules the Internet land.....

 

Must be a Winders program. I'm having no issues at all using Linux and Opera.

 

AlpineRAM

Did the ping test. Results:

Here is what I got when I entered that IP address into Firefox
http://home.fuse.net/tgiesse/ping/ipsample.jpg

Here is the results I got from the command prompt ping
http://home.fuse.net/tgiesse/ping/ping1%20copy.jpg

Thanks
GooglelessTrey

 

Tom, I am actually in the process of switching to Linux and Mac....

 

Have you settled on a Linux distro yet? I've been using Vector Linux for about 3 months now and am extremely happy at how it works on my older PC (PIII/450).

 

no, i havent settled on one yet.... I was thinking Mandrake.... I will have to run Vector for a while and see how it works for me....

StillgooglelessTrey

 

Mandriva I hear is good (formerly Mandrake). I tried SuSE for a while, but it was just too much for this old PC. Worked well, but slow. Read a review on Vector Linux SOHO and tried it out. I knew there was a huge difference when it took me just 30 minutes to install vs the hour and a half it took with SuSE.

 

Router problem..... found it fixed it.... not sure why that happened..... not sure why I didnt figure that out sooner.....

 

that you've got it solved.
On Linux distro's- I'm extremely happy with Gentoo- you will have to compile almost everything yourself, but it's a) rather painless and b) extremely fast on small hardware.
(If you follow some advices on optimizing the compiler and use flags )


AlpineRAM