Problems accessing forum

[Smoking gun]

Hello,
I'm having problems accessing the forum at home on all 3 of my devices. Chromebook, kindle Fire and mobile phone. It's a local problem,  site keeps "timing out" in Healing (small village near Grimsby) in Grimsby everything works OK.

I don't expect the forum tech to resolve this issue.

I can access Facebook,  TMP and the Lead Adventure forum OK at home.

Just be aware that I cannot access the forum regularly.

Best wishes, Martin from an Internet black spot.

[Colonel Kilgore]

It seems to have been an intermittent issue for several of us, Martin.

In my last case, it lasted a day or two and then started working again.

I don't know if Simon C did anything in the background.

Sorry I don't have a quick fix for you, but hopefully it will go away soon.

Simon

[Smoking gun]

Hi Simon,
It's been an issue for the last two weeks or so. I'm currently at my daughters house, which is a couple of minutes walk from mine, and the forum works perfectly on thier WiFi from the same provider.

Best wishes,
Martin.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Ah - I think that's a different issue to the one Sean and I had recently, then.

Stewart had your problem, Martin, that went on for some time. I think you'll find a phone on data will work fine too.

I don't know what the answer is, but some kind of clash with your WiFi router at home, I'd think.

Simon

[Smoking gun]

Hi Simon,
I can't get access on 5G data as well, but the signal is poor here as it's a rural area, so I don't tend to use phone data.

I'll try resetting the router but as most other websites work OK I haven't done it yet.

Best wishes,
Martin

[Smoking gun]

Hi,
I've rebooted the router with no effect.
I'll ask my son who's a software engineer to have a look when he visits on Saturday.

Best wishes,
Martin

[Smoking gun]

Hi guys, My son has had a look and we have concluded that the issue is with the modem and I'll have to contact my internet provider to sort it. My son has come up with a temporary fix, if I use a VPN I can access the forum at home.

Best wishes,
Martin from a village near Grimsby.

[Sean Clark]

Glad you're on the path to online recovery!

[martin goddard]

Good luck Martin.  That all sounds very complicated; well beyond my abilites.

I can do "switch it off then on again".  That's it.


martin

[Smoking gun]

Hi Martin,
I did try "switching it off then on again" twice, once for 5 minutes and overnight. It didn't work.

Best wishes,
Martin from a village near Grimsby

[Colonel Kilgore]

The advanced tech support option is of course "percussive maintenance".

Step 1: find your largest hammer...

Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

If it's any consolation, Martin, I've currently got the same issue as you had.

Neither phone nor PC connect to this Forum via my router (which I have rebooted, to no avail).

My phone works just fine over data.

So the problem would seem to be the Forum and router not getting on. But fixing that is beyond my knowledge.

I just hope that if I ignore it for a while, the problem will just go away 

Simon

[martin goddard]

All very frustrating. I sympathise.

I find that with computers, things happen which were not asked for or required.   
I spend a lot of time looking up how to "first aid"  things on my PC and mac after such occurrences.
The help (thank the lord for you tube)  usually takes me to areas I have never been to before, with terminology that is not logical. This week the PC would not allow me to print a document. Instead it only allowed me to save it as a pdf?

The other annoyance is help which assumes too much. e.g just clear the pref cache.(??)


Last week my mac update inflicted predictive text on me. Horrible. Went through various stages to find it and get rid of it.

AAAAAAAARGH!

martin

[Smiley Miley 66]

I ve had to switch from using my ipad to my old Samsung tab, since the last Apple update. But to be fair it's not just this forum its having  problems with ?
Irregular and a concert venue website to name a couple.
But the funny thing is my iPhone has no problems but it is too small to use regularly!
Miles

[Colonel Kilgore]

On my phone, using data to connect, I've recently been getting a security warning to the effect that the RFCM Forum doesn't support HTTPS.

I am able to accept the risk and proceed, but can still get no access via WiFi (which, I'm wondering, may simply be blocking the site) and hence PC.

Is it just me?

Simon