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Post by paul waters on Mar 20, 2010 21:54:54 GMT
Was just wondering howany people using broadband Internet can not get the forums to load. The only way I can get the forums to load is via 3g on my iPhone there is one other who I know of who is having problems the same as me. Just thinking there could be a problem with the server blocking ip addresses
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Post by Reuben on Mar 20, 2010 21:59:19 GMT
how many times a day do you try and visit? and how long do you stay? if your visiting shortly and quite frequently, theres a chance the pro-boards servers may think your a spam robot and dissallow your connection for a number of hours or days?
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Post by paul waters on Mar 20, 2010 22:21:21 GMT
Everyday and quite ofter sometimes it's long periods some tes it's short liampetit is having the same problem been like it on and off for about 3 days worked this morning for a while then stopped again
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Post by mattsedgley on Mar 21, 2010 1:42:33 GMT
The server isn't banning IPs as far as i'm aware and your not on my banned list so technically you should be able to reach us, however there has been a recent fault logged between the proboards server and Sky broadband - locally a few people had issues adding the /index.cgi at the end of the address was working for some... bashley.proboards.com/:8080 is also another work around... I've just done a quick trawl of the net and it'd seem a few ISP's are blocking access to certain ip addresses file sharing sites and proboards etc... |
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Post by paul waters on Mar 21, 2010 7:17:45 GMT
That could explain mines sky broadband lol
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Post by paul waters on Mar 21, 2010 7:20:53 GMT
Neither of the above work when I've just tried them grrrr sky
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Post by paul waters on Mar 21, 2010 7:25:57 GMT
Has shmcc not thought of putting there own forums on there main sites server rather than using a free forum company that way it's slot more managable and can alter the forums scripting however u want
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Post by mattsedgley on Mar 21, 2010 22:18:35 GMT
yes we have  |
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Post by paul waters on Mar 21, 2010 22:22:27 GMT
If you need any help with the forums ever I'm happy to help
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Post by Reuben on Mar 21, 2010 22:47:22 GMT
it would be nice to move to something more manageable. however the wealth of information here, makes the move very tricky, especially if we want ot keep the info.
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Post by paul waters on Mar 22, 2010 6:54:42 GMT
Should be able to move the info from the database to a new one
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Post by Dave Chamberlain on Mar 22, 2010 19:46:33 GMT
bashley.proboards85.com:8080/index.cgiWorks for me  I'm on Sky max... Reading proboard & sky forums, nobody is sure if its Sky blocking or just a technical issue... Sky have replied to several complaints by saying there is a technical issue and they are working on it... I've been really happy with Sky's connection & speed up to now, but if they are going to block P2P, torrents & other share sites I'm off to ISP's new... I had a really bad experience with Tiscali a few years back, you couldn't even browse some sites in the evening cos they would block from 5pm to 11pm every night to save bandwidth!! Took me three months of constant complaining to get out of the contract early..
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Post by darrenoakley on Mar 22, 2010 19:57:48 GMT
I now and agian have a problem getting the forum up ( O2, But I just wait for a few minutes and its usually fine. Never need to get on that much it cant wait for a bit. Oh unless there was another auction, Refresh Refresh Refresh then get out bid by Neil |
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Post by paul waters on Mar 22, 2010 20:39:23 GMT
Lol I live on the forums lol it's working at the mo
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Post by mattsedgley on Mar 22, 2010 21:29:10 GMT
Moving to a new forum would mean loosing all the data we currently have stored, as there's no facility for us to save or export the forum etc etc.. part of the deal with us having the forum for free
I'm on tiscali or whatever they're called now.. and it's good most of the time, never have forum issues..
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Post by Dave Chamberlain on Mar 22, 2010 22:09:31 GMT
Looks like it's all back to normal now.. no need for :8080 etc. work arounds.. My issues with Tiscali (talk talk) were a few years back now Matt, it was just after they started their £17.99 unlimited package (one of the first "unlimited" deals) I guess it proved toooo popular as they ran out of available bandwidth and struggled to upgrade their servers etc.. I remember all of the Tiscali forums being full of moaning customers!! At times I was getting little better than dial up connection speeds in the evening and all P2P, torrent & online gaming sites were a no go.. I'm sure they have sorted it all out now, but it was bad enough to make me go to ADSL24 and pay £29 a month for a truly "unlimited" quality connection until I jumped to Sky just over a year ago.. Lets hope this proboard issue was just a technical glitch |
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Post by mattsedgley on Mar 23, 2010 20:24:11 GMT
It's interesting how many different people have different experiences with different service providers!
certainly the mid afternoon/early evening lag is quite bad on Tiscali..
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