At 08:55 PM -0500 06/23/2005, Sid Barras wrote (quoting corrected):
Dan said:
While these failures occur, can you do other things over the
network? Check mail, view other web pages, ftp, etc?
"the network refuses to send me to ebay pages" is not very
descriptive. *Exactly* what happens? Do you get some sort of
error message? Does the browser seem to be hung trying to
translate the ebay domain names to ip addresses? Do you get an
empty window, untitled? etc...
I can do almost everything else-- check email, view other web pages,
do google searches, etc.
Which means your basic network connectivity and dns is probably working fine.
Only on ebay, and a few other sites.
No idea what "few other sites" is/are. But eBay is a dog - script
heavy, slow, etc etc etc. Took me half an hour to start an auction
yesterday.
I have a hunch that security or encryption has something to do with
it? Like if it's a site that requires me to submit a visa card
number for an online transaction.
You're still not describing exactly what happens.
You're viewing what page?
You click on what link?
You then get what -- A blank page with no title? A titled page
that's blank? A spinning cursor? Messages at the bottom of the
browser window saying it's looking up some name, but then nothing
saying connecting to some ip, and nothing saying it's downloading any
particular element? Details please. We cannot see what's
happening...
these very same pages will work just fine if I hook straight to the
ethernet cable that I would have ordinarily have hooked to the
airport base station.
The need for speed. Maybe your 802 network is a bit slow (perhaps
due to some interference), which is making a javascript or something
time-out?
Run some speed tests, eg: the ones at speakeasy.net.
Show me a complete traceroute to
1) your ISP's web portal (www.bellsouth.net?)
2) www.eBay.com
So, it seems a strange, unusual situation, but, as they say, there
is nothing new under the sun, and I feel certain that someone,
somewhere has had this problem before.
Yes, you said that before. What did you find when you searched
Apple's forums, your ISP's support forums, and google?
The only time I've seen this type of thing is when a sluggish network
is used to talk to a script-heavy site such as eBay... Or when eBay
was fark'd SOP.
- Dan.
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