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[Tellemurius]

alright what are the steps to check if my ISP isn't screwing me with this. i know wikipedia is up cause i took my laptop to school and it works there. why would they even block it?

[ein]

Try Tor.

[Tellemurius]

i said check, not go around.

[ein]

That is how you check.
If you can connect through Tor or a proxy, then your ISP is screwing with you.

[Tellemurius]

damnit i did, DAMN YOU QWEST.

[Kearn]

very such

[Tellemurius]

do a hard-reset on your router and modem

that resets the gateway to factory default and will leave me pissed with customer service, ill wait until its ip address is renewed and see what happens.



edit: i even use the ping and traceroute tool on my gateway, Qwest is definity blocking wikipedia.

[Tellemurius]

well the ip renewed and wikis back up, still don't know whhy it was block but the problem is solve.


edit: spoke too fucking soon, its official that its being blocked but why?

[ChairmanPoo]

possibly the firewall is hiccuping. ALl these retarded netnanny systems tend to be prone to censor stuff at random

[Tellemurius]

im on my own laptop with no watchdog in it (i hope), i know its not a firewall.

[G-Flex]

An ISP wouldn't block Wikipedia, of all things.

If you can't connect to a website:

• Go to the command line and try to resolve the name (nslookup www.wikipedia.org). If that fails, it's a DNS problem.
• Also try to ping it from the command line. If that fails, use tracert instead to see where it's failing.

edit: i even use the ping and traceroute tool on my gateway, Qwest is definity blocking wikipedia.

Being able to ping your gateway (generally the router) has nothing to do with your ability to access a website, although it does mean that you're probably connected to your own network just fine (but you knew that already). Or are you trying to say something else?

Also, what do you mean by "reset gateway to factory default"?


At any rate, if the problem is name resolution, try running ipconfig /flushdns. Otherwise, I'm not really sure what would be going on, although tracert might provide a clue. Paste the results of whatever command returns a failure of any sort?

[Tellemurius]

the ping and traceroute tool on my gateway works as gateway to server. its fricking qwest i know it just fricking why?

[G-Flex]

the ping and traceroute tool on my gateway works as gateway to server. its fricking qwest i know it just fricking why?

You mean that you're running those commands on your router and it still isn't working? If so, what actually fails, and what are the traceroute results?

[Tellemurius]

it works the same as the computer version just based from the gateway.

[G-Flex]

Ha, yeah, I just edited my post after realizing that's what you meant. Seriously though, paste the traceroute results or something, and does the domain name even resolve?