I can't access some websites ... why?

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My wife can access all web pages from a wired connection, but when she goes wireless on the same computer, only some of those same pages can be accessed. For example, she can connect to the main page and some sub pages of U-Haul's web site but not to other pages (specifically http://store.uhaul.com/hitches.aspx). Would changing the MTU setting help with this situation? Thanks.

Possibly.

Two reasons I have had for not reaching some websites are:
1. The host file, when the link uses an intermediary advertising link like fastclick, which is in my hosts file. I remove the intermediary link from the address bar and go to the desired destination.
2. The javascript used is not completely proper and the browser I use does not handle it, but IE does handle it.

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I need to know to to find out the paasword of a Word Document which I have lost . Plz its very urgenet help me as soon as possible .

since my wife and i have installed a new video card now we cannot access our wellsfargo site or any pay pal sites. We estimate this started around the time of the video card install but cannot be sure. We are running xp home, on a very new computer.SONY RB40. Any suggestions besides downloading a bunch of crap. charles w.

Thank you thank you thank you! You were spot on accurate. Finally, relief of my insanity!
Misty

Why i can't ping my gateway after i've set everything correctly. Example = my ip is 192.168.1.3 and my gateway is 192.168.1.1. But i can't ping 192.168.1.1 and i can't even access the internet and can't even view the other workgroup. What can i do?

I wasn't able to get to some sites. I'm on XP home and have DSL. I have an dhcp assigned ip, but was using my dsl providers DNS entries for my network card. I got rid of the dns entries and the sites I couldn't get to showed up immediately. I'm guessing it was a temporary dns issue on their end. I thought adding a dns entry would speed things up. It worked since I setup my system three weeks ago, and all of a sudden just stopped. Go figure.

hey!! wow i love you man lol i cant belive it you fixed it!! ok well make sure you put down MTU numbers that he tells you to and not the ones that he has on his because i didnt listen lol and first i put 1500 and it didnt do anything but then i tried the 1492 and it worked .. oh and if you have windows xp you dont have to reboot you can just go into controll panell and then go to network connections, right click on ur connection and then click disable then enable it again by right clicking on ur connection and clicking enable

this made me able to get onto windows live messenger again and log onto myspace and onto hotmail so if you have those problems i strongly recommend this

ok I have what I consider a different scenario from the ones above. I cannot get to this website but I can ping it. I attempted it from my mother's pc which is a different setup browser etc and it had the same no response. But I could ping the website from my moms computer also. We are on DSL with a wireless network for my pc. so I decided to by pass the router and plug my moms computer directly into the DSL modem. Did that and still could not access the website. So it's not my router. SO i tried tweaking with the modem different things. I reset it completely. Disabled all firewalls. Still I can't get to this page in IE or Mozilla. BUT we have AOL for broadband that connects over our DSL connection. The bizarre thing is I can connect to the website through the AOL portal. Just not directly through Mozilla or IE. There is something that is simple that I am missing. Someone please point it out.

I would like this resolved so that I can get to it through my preferred browsers. I don't really use aol for broadband much and we are fixing to delete the account.

I appreciate any help you might could give.

I am kind of in the thinking that some how maybe my dsl carrier could be blocking the site but I have no idea how that would work or why.

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