craig Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 I've had a number of problems with TOT internet access. The other day (& again this morning) I could not get onto any website. I used Chrome, Opera & Explorer. Explorer checked out the problem & said the sites I wanted were on the internet but I was blocked by some firewall & my machine's firewall was configured properly. Still Skype worked but not the websites. How can this be? I don't get it...just an old ignorant fart. My wife called TOT & we went through the standard nonsense with them trying to blame my computer set up...She then checked with the Thai neighbors who said the internet wasn't working...She asked if they called TOT...they said no they never had...they just accepted no service while paying the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somtampet Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Thats a strange one Craig,in theory if u cant get on ie/opera,u shouldnt be able to go onto skype ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonman Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 I had the same problem with ToT yesterday afternoon and this morning also, I use Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB1950 Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Not strange at all. Me and my friends in Thailand had similar problems with TOT as the provider. I suspect because Skype uses P2P rather than a direct connection it was able to connect. However Skype still was unstable and connections were poor. Today, the problem seems to have gone away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thailand Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 I had the same problem with ToT yesterday afternoon and this morning also, I use Firefox. Was a problem accessing secure sites overseas for 2 days, earlier this morning it was OK now the problem has returned-it is a TOT fault! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorSucker Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Try using: Open DNS. 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 Goggle DNS. 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 Configuration instructions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerspace Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Follow PoorSuckers guidelines. When skype works but websites don't it is almost always a problem with DNS. Websites have to translate domain names (www.example.com) into IP addresses (123.456.789.123) which are used to identify and locate the servers. If your ISP's DNS servers are down then you will not be able to access any websites, yet skype works since it operates directly on IP addresses. Try using one from google and one from opendns for added resilience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrel Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 I agree. DNS servers in Thailand seem to be pretty dismal. They hardly ever seem to work correctly for more than 10 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Morozov Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Please check this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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