I am running windows vista,dialup and I was pinging geocaching.com. I tried to get to geocaching.com from the icon,that's why I posted here. kind of a last resort. thank you all for the help.
I am able to access geocaching.com now,tweaked firefox to bypass proxy using: about:config
I am running windows vista,dialup and I was pinging geocaching.com. I tried to get to geocaching.com from the icon,that's why I posted here. kind of a last resort. thank you all for the help.
Are you within a corporate network? In a country with weird censorship laws (Australia, Iran, China, etc)?
nothing out of the ordnary,I'm at home,in the usa,same internet provider etc...never used to have a problem,I accessed the site daily.
I've found that messing with my proxy lets me access the gc site,don't really know what I'm doing but here's what I did:
go to tools and click options
click on the advanced button and then click the network tab
then under connections click settings
click auto-detect proxy settings for this network.
Try a different computer, same location.
It works, then obviously something in your system or it's logical connection to the internet is at fault.
Am I understanding that you can access any other internet server at will at any time except for the ones located at goeocaching.com?
What happens if you go to a command prompt and type: ping geocaching.com?
sorry for the post hijacking,I really didn't expect all this help.I am appreciating it!
ping gc.com results,4 packets sent 305ms to 358ms, ttl=108
Truly, really, for sure?
Seems a little extreme. Slow at times, but rarely has that happened to me but it has, so rarely it usually indicates the server(s) are totally down.
Perhaps your provider?
I thought the site was still down from the fire untill I got email from someone finding one of my caches.
It might be something on this end but everything else I go to works.
More info...when I go the POI database on the GPS, there are no caches listed.
the caches are stored in geocache folder in my 210,click menu,my pts interest,geocache points,hope this helps you!