problems getting to certain sites today?

[ScoobySnack]

am having difficulty browsing to www.sendspace.com and wwww.yahoo.com today

i've phones friends who are NOT with Virgin and they are not having problems with these pages

anyone else having similar problems with selected pages?

[Ravenheart]

Hi Scooby,

I can get to the Spendspace site, but I'm getting a page load error on Yahoo, I've also been unable to access www.digg.com, the WoW forums and I'm unable to log into wow either.

[squirrel1970]

Yeah... I thought it was me, but now I've seen your post, I'm having problems with yahoo and http://lifehacker.com/ (so far)

My partner is currently trying to cancel his WoW subcription, but can't (I wished he could....! )

[ziggycat]

I was just about to post this myself, I've just spent an hour with bb support.

A couple of sites I use frequently - avforums.com, consumerforums.com would not load, so hopped onto a friends wireless who has a BT service and low and behold they loaded up fine.

After all the faffing around running tracert, reset modem etc. I was told that a 3rd party was not allowing virgin media traffic accross thier equipment ?????
Yes It's true - thier senior support staff know about it.

I thinks this is the final straw for me with VM.

[Ravenheart]

I can get to lifehacker, (I want a pegboard to tidy my desk!)

I did cancel my wow sub, for 4 months, but I'm weak and went back :P

[reggplant]

Yeah I'm finding the fault is somewhere between vm(ntl) and cogent's network from london.

[zer0]

same here some websites are being blocked for me too or are having network timeouts while they are working fine through a proxy

cant log into my rapidshare account
Network Timeout

The operation timed out when attempting to contact ssl.rapidshare.com.

yahoo for me too
Network Timeout

The operation timed out when attempting to contact uk.tv.yahoo.com.

[ScoobySnack]

a quick and very dirty workaround is to use an anonymous proxy that will allow cookies, say www.youhide.com

this allows me to go to yahoo.com and www.SendSpace.com any other sites that i want to browse to but in a limited fashion.

it doesn't however solve the problem of why virgin can't get its act together

[chamoan]

I'm having problems with some msg board sites and some chatrooms i usually visit, but my friends on msn are not having problems acessing these very same sites......but they are not on VM.

[sstainer]

i had issues accessing hotmail, so changed the DNS to open dns and all is fine now

[ScoobySnack]

Originally Posted by sstainer

i had issues accessing hotmail, so changed the DNS to open dns and all is fine now

its not strictly a DNS issue as i can ping and trace to sites but cannot browse them. if it was DNS i would not be able to ping them at the very least

[KennyT]

I'm unable to access my Logmein PCs (or their website/forums). I'm already using OpenDNS...

K

[SOSAGES]

its the internet - it breaks a lot
someone somewhere is running around being very busy plugging cables trying to fix it for us.

[dj rob st]

yeah its not a dns error i cant get to http://www.xtremewrestlingtorrents.net/

if i do a traceroute then it ends up stopping at the first 3rd party after virgin, but if a use a online proxy site works fine and no one else on the site reporting the errors

wonder if virgin never paid they bills to somoene lmao

[spidiweb7]

i too cannot access certain sites like imageshack.us