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whats pinging, and a lot of people cant access this particular site
Not sure if you dont want to say site cos its personal or cos its another forum, if its not personal you could pm some of us with VM and we could check it out to see if we have the problem. I would try if you like.
This question has been asked many times before and Virgin say they definitely do not block sites or ports, they only throttle some ports as part of their fair usage.
But having said that Virgin and BT & Sky (I think) have been asked to block The Pirate Bay.
But there are always around blocking.
You need to check the site using a pc that you know is on VM.
If you can't post the site here that we really can't help you check it.
"Opinions are like arseholes. Everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks."
Not sure if you dont want to say site cos its personal or cos its another forum, if its not personal you could pm some of us with VM and we could check it out to see if we have the problem. I would try if you like.
Enter the website address through this... and see if you have access.
Did have a situation a few months back where I couldn't access a site, but I could have access through this proxy. The website itself was having server problems, where certain ranges of IP addresses weren't getting access.
Another site I use to check to see 'if I'm the only one not getting access' is
It could be a DNS server failure. VM DNS servers are notoriously crap with site names often failing to resolve. Try changing your network settings to use either the google DNS service (8.8.8.8) or the OpenDNS servers (208.67.222.222). This small change will also get around any simple DNS blocking VM attempt.
Changing DNS is fairly simple. For XP -
Start->Settings->Network Connections
Select and open your network settings (possible 'Local Area Connection 1' or similar).
Scroll down the items box until you see 'Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)' and select. Press the Properties button
You should get a properties box popup. There should be an radio-box option to 'Use the following DNS server addresses'. Make sure that option is selected and then fill in the Prefered and Alternate DNS server IP boxes with the above given addresses.
Press the Ok button a few times to remove all the property boxes and job done. You are no longer using VM's DNS servers !
If you have multiple network connections then you may need to change the settings in more connections. DONT change the settings in any connection that uses a mobile dongle connection - strange things can happen.
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