[steveballmer]

Hi!

I recently came up with a network issue in my house (coming from a long line of network issues, its complicated, i'll brief on it later). Anyway, my mom is a big fan of the yahoo card games, and tonight when she came home from work she hopped on her computer and tried loading up yahoo.com and it basically timed out on her.

We were able to load up yahoo.com a few days ago just fine, I don't recall ever going there yesterday so I don't know if this is something brand new.

Anyway, here is the jist of what network changes that have occured recently:
1. On monday, my dad switched our modem. We have a 6-year old speedstream 5100, which we think may be going out on us. We replaced it with a D-link DSL-2320B which has worked fairly well with us so far. I'm going to go one a little tangent here for a minute. My "old" network issue is that we have a mystery problem that is causing our DSL signal to be very weak, going from a blazing fast 1536 kbps to a sluggish 386 (or something, i calculuated once that it is exactly 1\5 of the normal speed, and that is very consistent) So we have tried various remedies for our network problem, I have ran all the line tests, with no luck. We even had a tech guy come out here, scratch his head check a few wires and tell us he didn't know what was wrong.

2. Today I was using the internet when it suddenly disconnected. I first looked to my modem and noticed that my internet led wasn't on anymore. I reset the modem and I think I located that the problem may have been from the phone cable we had going from the wall to the modem. So I grabbed a telephone cable from one of our phones plugged it in, and the modem started working flawlessly. I had internet within a few seconds and I didn't even have to restart it.

3. When my mom told me about the problem this evening, the first thing I did was reset my modem, a few minutes later everything was back up on the indicators and modem page. I tried loading up yahoo.com and still can't load it.

I have tried pinging yahoo.com with command prompt, and it is pinging well.
114ms latency, 4\4 packages received, 92 ms min, 137 ms max.

I even pinged google (google is working fine) and I'm getting a slower response from google.

I am baffled by what the problem can be, I REALLY doubt changing the phone cable could be my problem, but from my experience with networking, having a dog bark when the doorbell goes can cause internet hickups (Im kidding of course, I'm just making a point that networking is finicky).

If any of you guys have some insight on what I could do, please let me know...

[Bubba]

Have you tried yahoo since then? It is very rare, but sometimes Yahoo does go down for a while.

[Hybr!d]

If it is just Yahoo and their services I would say it's them not you.

Just wait it out.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Also my mum has experienced a similar error, because of the particular page she favourited.

She accused me of "breaking her internet", so I hopped down there, unwilling to search through her favourites I typed yahoo into google and it worked fine first time.

So she hopped back on, and tryed from her favourites, didn't work again, it was then that I realised!

So basically if you havn't already, just hop onto google, or type the home page in directly if you know the extension (I didn't, so I used google)

Worth a try, at least.

EDIT:

Do you notice that everyones hopping everywhere in this thread?!