Can you access this site?

I seem to be having trouble trying to access this site but only on my home computer.

www.templatemonster.com

I have ISDN at work and everytime I have tried to access the site whilst at work have had no problems. However when I am on my home computer which is 56k dial up, I cannot reach the site.

I get the "Opening www.templatemonster.com" message in the bottom of the browser but after a couple of minutes I get an error message that the site was unreachable. At first I thought it was mere coincidence that I could only access the site at work and not at home. I figured the server might be having problems but now I am starting to wonder if it isnt something else. I have EZ armor firewall on the computer at home but it hasn't ever stopped me form accessing any other sites before.

Anyone got an idea what this could be?

Works for me.

A bit long during the initial load, but no errors and everything appeared fine.

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

A bit long during the initial load, but no errors and everything appeared fine.

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same here.

Loaded Instantly here :eek2:

Worked here too. Maybe security or privacy settings aren't allowing it to come up? Or maybe the site was just down at the time you tried it? I dunno. Just guessing. Or maybe the magic firewall fairy created a rule blocking that site somehow?

When I typed this thread I was at work and could access the site. Now I am at home and cannot access the site anymore. Its got to be more than coincidence. I did a tracert and here are the results.


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\tracert www.templatemonster.com

Tracing route to www.templatemonster.com [146.82.216.98]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 104 ms 102 ms 98 ms acc01-hamm-bme.comindico.com.au [203.220.250.49]

2 103 ms 98 ms 99 ms 203.220.250.29
3 356 ms 353 ms 373 ms atm3-0-0.32.cor02-stge-pth.comindico.com.au [203
.194.25.17]
4 486 ms 455 ms 372 ms ge4-0-0.cor01-stge-pth.comindico.com.au [203.194
.58.209]
5 330 ms 320 ms 320 ms pos2-3.cor01-kent-syd.comindico.com.au [203.194.
25.73]
6 542 ms 323 ms 324 ms pos1-0.cor02-kent-syd.comindico.com.au [203.194.
25.50]
7 336 ms 327 ms 327 ms pos2-3.155.cor01-broo-scn.comindico.net [203.194
.0.98]
8 352 ms 321 ms 345 ms pos5-0.155.cor01-west-sea.comindico.net [203.194
.0.114]
9 370 ms 324 ms 328 ms ge0-0.1000.bdr03-west-sea.comindico.net [203.194
.0.158]
10 332 ms 323 ms 326 ms twtelecom.com [198.32.180.64]
11 326 ms 320 ms 325 ms dist-02-so-2-0-0-0.sttl.twtelecom.net [168.215.5
4.173]
12 403 ms 381 ms 392 ms core-02-ge-0-2-1-1.chcg.twtelecom.net [66.192.25
5.64]
13 413 ms 391 ms 395 ms dist-01-so-0-0-0-0.clmb.twtelecom.net [66.192.24
1.20]
14 428 ms 428 ms 394 ms 66.192.241.218
15 421 ms 417 ms 408 ms ge0-101.core01.pow.oh.httpd.net [66.252.31.129]

16 415 ms 403 ms 398 ms ge0-0.core01.pow.oh.foonet.net [66.252.0.11]
17 403 ms 404 ms 402 ms fw02-ded-cfn.man.foonet.net [66.252.31.74]
18 fw02-ded-cfn.man.foonet.net [66.252.31.74] reports: Destination host unrea
chable.

Trace complete.


I still get a "Page cannot be displayed error" after a few minutes when trying to access the site. Does anyone know what could be going on here? I have disabled my firewall but still no luck.

No probs here too. Have you tried viewing it through a web proxy?

Like this one

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Originally Posted by riddellcomp

When I typed this thread I was at work and could access the site. Now I am at home and cannot access the site anymore. Its got to be more than coincidence. I did a tracert ...

... lots of adresses .. 'unreachable'

I still get a "Page cannot be displayed error" after a few minutes when trying to access the site. Does anyone know what could be going on here? I have disabled my firewall but still no luck.

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The main thing that's different, is your ISP ! .... ISP's have their own exclusion lists, maybes where ever you are trying to reach is on one list & not another ? OR one is cached at one & not the other ...

Anyways Tracecert from effectively two different starts isn't much help ;) ... most especially when you only get one of the traces ! :D

However if you look at his trace then you can see that what's not available is infact a sub-domain ... follow the traces, for the last three you hit ge0-0.core01.pow.oh.foonet.net, then fw02-ded-cfn.man.foonet.net & lastly a fail from fw02-ded-cfn.man.foonet.net ...

So its failing in that last domain for whatever reason, which is no doubt cached at your works ISP & you just aren't aware of that ....

Do a tracert at work, compare the routes taken. Then report it to your isp.

I will do a trace at work on monday. However in the mean time I have two ISP's so once I send this I will hang up and dial the opther ISP and see if I can access the site through them. Thanks for the advice.

it appears that I am able to access the site if I dial in via another ISP. I have sent an e-mail to my ISP to see what they can do about it.

Hi there,

Wish I could make cool websites like that.

Ju Leon...

Well after sending in tracert results to the site whilst using my ISP and also while using two other ISP's just to prove it was their problem as I could reach the site with other ISP's, they sent this e-mail.

Thank you for your email.

It appears that Foonet.net is blocking connections from Dodo customers. We are looking into this at present, however we can give no specific timeframe or likelihood of resolution at this stage.

Regards,

Dodo Support Team


In other words if no one else complains about it they probably wont bother trying to do anything about it.

So case solved if not fixed :thumbs: , isp exclusions ... for some reason here we seem to have two ISPs too (why's that then ?) - so I don't suppose it is a problem ? :confused: ... :D:D:D

I changed ISP's because I found a new ISP that was cheaper but still provided a good service. I am still only trialling the new ISP so do not want to close my account with the other ISP just yet. Instead I have changed my plan with the other ISP to a hourly rate plan pay as I go type thing. I therefore dont really use it unless I have to.
I don't want to have to hang up and dial the other ISP everytime I want to access the templatemonster site.
I contacted the site admin and they are looking into it so hopefully it will be fixed.

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Originally Posted by riddellcomp

I changed ISP's because I found a new ISP that was cheaper but still provided a good service. I am still only trialling the new ISP so do not want to close my account with the other ISP just yet. Instead I have changed my plan with the other ISP to a hourly rate plan pay as I go type thing. I therefore dont really use it unless I have to.
I don't want to have to hang up and dial the other ISP everytime I want to access the templatemonster site.
I contacted the site admin and they are looking into it so hopefully it will be fixed.

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Errr dude, in the meantime ... connect up with the one 'you don't like', make the page 'available offline' (in internet explorer tools, synchronise)... presumably it doesn't change every two minutes, so this should keep your redialing to a minimum ! :) ... or just look for it in your history files...

I had the same prob with Windrivers site a while back, My ISP was Telstra in Australia and they blamed it on Windrivers.com, we argued back and forth a bit and I ended up telling them where they can stick there Internet Service Provision and I joined up with TPG.

Never looked back since

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Originally Posted by philski27

I had the same prob with Windrivers site a while back, My ISP was Telstra in Australia and they blamed it on Windrivers.com, we argued back and forth a bit and I ended up telling them where they can stick there Internet Service Provision and I joined up with TPG.

Never looked back since

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Hey Philski I live about 2300 kms North of you, can you guess where??

I used to be with Bigpond back in 95 when that was the only ISP we could get up here through their rural connect plan. However it was $7.00 an hour and the service wasn't very good. Since Telstra started giving ISP's the 0198 free call numbers it has really opened up our options. I now pay $9.90 per month unlimited hours with Dodo and a maximum of $24.00 for the month if I go over 750mb (Which I do).
I tried TPG a few years ago but I had a blew with them. I only paid for 100 hours and they didnt warn me when I went over the 100 hours and didn't stop my access either. I took them to the ACC and won and didn't have to pay. Their service up here wasn't good anyway.
I am also with Westnet which has fantastic service but at $44 per month wasn't cheap. Thats why I opened an account with Dodo.

Confus-ed,

The site has thousands of web design templates. I couldnt make the site available offline as there would be too many pages.