internet advice req.

Set up a wireless router for a friend and his son has a dell laptop with vista installed and its all connected fine and able to surf the net etc, but theres a problem connecting to certain websites on the laptop and the desktop pc.

Neither will load up windows live messenger home page, yet now i've arrived back at home and i have tried on my pc its loaded up fine.

Can anyone shed any light on the matter?




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Firewall? Check ports, and allowable people to connect. Otherwise, it may just be a FF or IE problem.

Or it was a case of the site being down.

You said certain websites, so which others were playing silly buggers?

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myspace page would load but wouldnt allow login, and msn messenger live and microsofts homepage. i tried a few other sites like bbc itv and ebay they all loaded up as normal




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Roughly how far away was the laptop, and is the router the only thing connected to the internet? Cause if the desktop's going through the router via wireless, like the laptop, then it may be a router problem.

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Everyone knows that million-to-one chances happen 9 times out of 10; indeed, it's a common requirement in fairy tales. If the human didn't have to overcome huge odds, what would be the point? Terry Pratchett - The Science Of Discworld

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We had the laptop in the same room as the wireless router, and the desktop pc is connected via a cable, so theres only the laptop connected wirelessly




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It could be something in the router's firewall settings that's preventing access to certain websites. Either that, or they really were just down at the time.

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Maybe they are cached, and you dont actually have access to any websites. (Ill look like a right fool if LS posts a reply now lol!)

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Its definately connected to the internet as i performed a broadband speedtest on the laptop




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