Summising from observations rather than knowing the facts:

It is all to do with the site filtering software put in place by Maxnet (or perhaps at an even higher level)

The vast majority of sites are totally unblocked and these work fine.

Its the sites that are partially blocked that cause the problem. ie where some pages are allowed and some are not. These sites are passed through to another proxy that does this detailed filtering, eg for BBC or Wikipedia. Often this proxy is overworked and slow even when the vast majority of unfiltered sites are working to full speed.

Melonf, you might be interested. Accessing a WWII history site, up came a white page saying something like "This site blocked by blah, blah, prornography, blah, blah, Thai police". Pity, I didn't copy the message. Anyhow, I pushed some buttons & then the page loaded OK. How did they know I get my rocks off on pix of naked 30-ton tanks? Phwaoooorh! Khao pat Big Brother?

My Maxnet - BBC 4 connection is the pits. Been that way for about 2 weeks. Never had this trouble when nice Mr T was robbing the till. Old Git

You wouldn't believe how many people find my website and send me a PM on my forum, asking for my advice on this, that and the other re: Thailand, just like you did today... and direct me to a thread on ThaiVisa for me to comment. I mean for Christ's sake, if you took the time to sign up on my forum because you found my posts useful and then send me a PM on my website, how hard can it be to post your question on *my* forum if you want *my* advice?!!!... and I'm bloody sick of it, so p!$$ off...

BTW my Maxnet connection is running like s#!t off a stick thanks...... next...

Toys....Pram.....

Its my ball.....

Loser.

I can connect Ok from Bangkok and the age loads fast. Try this go to Free Proxy Scroll to the bottom of the page and enter the URL www.bbc.com and click go. This will make the request from a UK proxy server rather than Thai and it should enable the BBC i player to work. No guarantee, but give it a try it has worked for me in the past.

Cheers, Rick

Bless you bangkokrick. Your fix brought instant relief. BBC R4 loads & runs. Not being a geek, I'm clueless, but my speed check showed 4035 kbs down, 264 kbs up. I suspect that's somewhat below the advertised service for 1000 B/month here in Ubon. Rip-off? Quelle surprise. Old Git

Add me to the list of Maxnet subscribers that cannot now access the BBC website or listen to BBC radio.

I previously posted on this thread that I was having no problems and that was so until yesterday. In the morning I connected easily as usual, but in the evening and today I cannot reach the site. The page does not time out, it just hangs and never appears.

I am also unable to access Wikipedia and Bangkok Bank today, the same thing happens on those sites.

I hope that this is temporary as I use BBC radio a lot.

I tried the Free Proxy link and that connects ok to the BBC homepage, but will not connect me to the radio sites.

Edited August 28, 200916 yr by delboy

I'm rather determined to rabble rouse on this one.

It's now another week and I just followed a link to learn about how Pfizer had been yet again fined this time 2.3B$ for stealing from the public purse. It just wouldn't load. I looked elsewhere, read several related articles, and it still wasn't loading. Now it's half an hour later and I notice it's still not even begun to load. Wonder what the address is I thought......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8234533.stm

Everything else just fine.

Anyone have a contact thingy for MAxnet?

BTW I seem to have heard...........Is it possible to use a proxy to get around this problem?

Its not maxnet per se.. I am on maxnet and page appears fine and fast..

Are you on Indy or Premier ??

It does seem to be BBC-specific, as opposed to UK-specific: I have been using Sky News Radio as a (reluctant) alternative to BBC whilst these shenanigans continue. It streams fine all day, or night.

BTW I seem to have heard...........Is it possible to use a proxy to get around this problem?

The use of proxies is forbidden in Thailand and therefore we cannot allow discussion in the forum.

Sorry.

Supposing someone got a box up which said

For the best possible listening experience, please enable JavaScript.

Click here to launch Any Questions: 28/08/2009 in Real Player.

and when he clicked here it looped back to say the same again what would a helpful person advise him?

(BTW Javascript is enabled)

Edited September 3, 200916 yr by sleepyjohn

I like to listen to Radio 4 on streaming audio in the mornings.

For some time I've had to forgo Any Questions in the shower.

The BBC seems very difficult when not impossible to get up. To check if it's foreign bandwidth in general I check other foreign sites and they usually load normally.

It seems to be the BBC.

What's up?

John

Hi Sleepy,

I can connect Ok from Bangkok and the age loads fast. Try this go to Free Proxy Scroll to the bottom of the page and enter the URL www.bbc.com and click go. This will make the request from a UK proxy server rather than Thai and it should enable the BBC i player to work. No guarantee, but give it a try it has worked for me in the past.

Cheers, Rick

Hi

i tried this and got onto the bbc no problem,but when i try to watch a prog it says java script must be enabled ,a link tells you how to enable it ,but it is already enabled ,but still keeps saying its not ,any ideas? by the way ime not very computer savy.

thanks.

The shackles are off!!!!

All BBC pages, and live radio, are loading fast and streaming well this morning on Maxnet. Will it last this time?

The shackles are off!!!!

All BBC pages, and live radio, are loading fast and streaming well this morning on Maxnet. Will it last this time?

unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bbc is now my fastest loading page what the <deleted> is going on hope it lasts