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Can ping sites but can't view them in IE

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  • 26-01-2007 2:17am
    #1
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭


    Friend of mine has Eircom BB.
    He can view some sites but not all for some weird reason.

    For example, myhome.ie he can ping but no joy in IE....it just times out.
    I tried putting in just the ip in IE to rule out DNS (is this correct?) but again it times out.

    Any other number of sites are effected.

    Any ideas before he rings Eircom?

    Cheers


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    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    I've had the same issue with BT for ages. Sometimes I can access site, most of the time I can't and it's always the same sites; www.yahoo.com always works but mail.yahoo.com doesn't.

    *shrugs*


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    #3
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Any other ideas anyone?
    Are any other Eircom users getting this?


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    SolarNexus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭SolarNexus


    Get firefox

    Try at least one other browser to see if it is IE at fault or not.


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    #5
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Turns out with was the PPPoE setting on the router. Eircom did not want to know so Belkin themselves came to the rescue.

    I believe it was set to PPPoA


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    JNive
    Registered Users Posts: 994 ✭✭✭JNive


    issues like this are usually due to your packetsize being too large. pings are small and pass fine, but loading website results in the header being sent ok ( title appear in the browser ) and the rest not loading. PPPoA as smaller encapsulation header, and hence larger data-packet segment, which might be why ( which is why it was slightly better throughput when the network supported it )


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    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    I did try playing with the MTU but never thought of PPPoE/A

    Main thing she's sorted


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