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Subject: Web Access is Fine, But Otherwise Can't Use Internet
Category: Computers > Internet
Asked by: tiger72-ga
List Price: $5.00

Posted: 24 Oct 2004 15:42 PDT
Expires: 26 Oct 2004 06:06 PDT
Question ID: 419470

I have no problem accessing websites using IE6, but suddenly I can't connect directly to remote computers, such as my company's email server or an online gaming site. When I try to connect, I eventually get a message that it cannot connect to the remote computer. Norton Antivirus, AdAware and Spybot find no problems. What can I do?
Request for Question Clarification by googleexpert-ga on 24 Oct 2004 18:13 PDT Can you list some wesites that you can connect to? Also, does there seem to similar problems with Browsers other than IE6? Thank you. -googleexpert
Clarification of Question by tiger72-ga on 24 Oct 2004 21:43 PDT All websites work OK -- NYTimes, Google, ESPN, IMDB, Weather, CNN and others. I haven't tried (and don't have) any other browsers. Also, my whole system is running slowly.
Clarification of Question by tiger72-ga on 26 Oct 2004 06:06 PDT The answer was that the hotel broadband connection was for some reason blocking my connection. As soon as I got home, all was well. Very strange.

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Subject: Re: Web Access is Fine, But Otherwise Can't Use Internet
From: pcchiu-ga on 25 Oct 2004 11:25 PDT

all website using only port 80.
1.  Did you have any firewall(hardware or software)?  By Default SP2
enabled the firewall feature and if you're not configure it properly
you may not able to do anything beside web surfing.   Or try to
disable all firewall(norton, windows build in firewall) and see if
that help?

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