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Title: Web pages appearing blank
Post by: Abou27 on November 02, 2007, 08:38:28 AM

Hi there,

A couple of days ago, I became unable to view a particular webpage.  In Opera, there is just a blank white page and in IE7, it say 'unable to display'.  However, this happens on all computers in my house (page is definitely accessible externally).

Has my provider bizarrely decided to block this one webpage (it is a phpbb forum index page - other pages on the site display fine) or is there something else going on?

Neil

Title: Re: Web pages appearing blank
Post by: DBAlex on November 02, 2007, 09:13:46 AM

Are you using a router?

If so try restarting it, also try clearing out your cache... (Its in Internet Options in IE iirc)

This happens all the time to me with my Belkin router (Don't ever buy a belkin router) it either does this or just won't work because its overheated... Its usually because it needs restarting though.

Hope that works ok... Alex.

 :-D

Title: Re: Web pages appearing blank
Post by: skurk on November 02, 2007, 09:19:04 AM

Maybe your IP address has been banned from the forum?  Try going through an anonymous proxy or anonymizer and see if it works then.

Title: Re: Web pages appearing blank
Post by: dfreniche on November 02, 2007, 09:27:20 AM

Just guessig, but..
Are you running an anti virus  program in the background? If that forum as a cross-site-scripting issue (i.e. some stupid with lots of free time has managed to inject javascript in a post) maybe your a-virus blocks the entire page.
Remember the problem is only with the forum. So maybe you have to blame the forum.

Title: Re: Web pages appearing blank
Post by: Abou27 on November 03, 2007, 08:15:51 PM

Hello,

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I have tried them all - reset router, disabled firewall and anti-virus but to no avail.  I have noticed now that more sites are affected and all are forums.  Even here, after I posted, I could view some forum topics but others produced a blank screen.  My provider is looking into things (apparently) as they have recently installed a new base station (I host a base station to receive broadband by satellite which is then distributed to the local vicinity wirelessley)and this has caused extremely slow access and problems with images loading on pages.

Any other ideas?


Thanks.

Oh - an example of an affected site - http://www.meganeownersclub.co.uk/forum/

Title: Re: Web pages appearing blank
Post by: webmany on November 03, 2007, 09:14:52 PM

Sounds like MTU.

Try changing to 1400 on one of your computers, or if you have the option, the best place on on your router.



In windows 2000 and XP:

Open Regedit and find this key:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces

You will need to create a new DWORD entry:
MTU="1400"

If this works, you can tweak the number to try and get more speed.

Title: Re: Web pages appearing blank
Post by: wurzel on November 03, 2007, 10:41:53 PM

Quote

Abou27 wrote:

Oh - an example of an affected site - http://www.meganeownersclub.co.uk/forum/

This was visible on my Amiga system with IIBrowse -     ditch that PC!  :-D

It might well be the cache in your browsers - try clearing it??

Title: Re: Web pages appearing blank
Post by: webmany on November 05, 2007, 01:27:36 AM

Any luck?

Title: Re: Web pages appearing blank
Post by: Abou27 on November 11, 2007, 12:59:03 PM

Thanks Webmany.

I tried what you said but unfortunately no joy :-(