emanphoto Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 We have True DSL and cable TV here. Since yesterday evening websites have been erratic and not opening including thaivisa.com! I am able to post here ONLY because I am using the Tor browser which annonymizes my IP or something like that. To check and see if sites are down I use downforeveryoneorjustme.com. I have cleared my caches, run every utility I have, restarted, safe booted, turned off or uninstalled all browser extensions, turned Java on and off and STILL it am getting nothing for certain sites. I even ran a virus scan just to be thorough (on Mac OS 10.6.8) and came up with nothing. As I type here, Safari is still trying to load thaivisa.com. Sites that are working are Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo mail, (but not Yahoo Groups) Google and so on. I can't find any logic to the sites that are not loading. Is anyone else in BKK having this issue? This issue is also on our other Mac laptop. Thanks PS after typing here for 15 mins or so thaivisa.com opened in Safari. wth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewlyMintedThai Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Yes...same issue here. Since last might. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewlyMintedThai Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Problem seems to have sorted itself out now...strange. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I had the same problems since about 10:30 last night and this morning. I called True this morning, didn't get anything sorted, they said the "technician" would call back, never called back. Now all of a sudden it's all sorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payboy Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Same on my desktop. Still no access to many sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emanphoto Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 No sh_t!!!! Been dealing with this since last night and now all of a sudden....!!! As a last resort, I had just now gone through my fonts to see if there were any issues there, and found one newly added font that had an issue. Deleted that and was looking for one more utility and saw you had posted. I am posting here now with Safari and other sites are working normally as well when they just crawled before or never opened. This despite speedtest.net and pingtest.net showing me to have a good ping as well as speed. Forgot to mention that Firefox had the same problem and only Tor browser (which I believe is based on Mozilla) worked. Makes ya wonder, was it some BS at True's end or that one little font? Problem seems to have sorted itself out now...strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emanphoto Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 With all the censorsh_t that goes on here plus content blocked just because we're overseas (I'm talking to you NBC, ABC, CBS, Hulu) plus the fact that the ONLY browser that worked during this time was Tor (which can get around Thai censors), it wouldn't surprise me to find out the problem was outside of my computer. Same on my desktop. Still no access to many sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewlyMintedThai Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Censorship and blocking for copyright matters are two separate issues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignis Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Still the same for me using True, change to UK server no problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paggamb Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Me too but now its fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emanphoto Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 yes they are. Censorship and blocking for copyright matters are two separate issues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLing Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Exactly same problem two weeks ago with TOT. Could not access any websites appart from google co th No problems on my neighbours WiFi who uses TOT aswell. No problems what so ever using my proxi server which is located in europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emanphoto Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 (edited) One of these days I should have someone come and set something like that up for me. I knew it was too good too be true (accidental pun) as things are still wonky but not as bad as this morning or last night. (knocks on wood) Exactly same problem two weeks ago with TOT. No problems what so ever using my proxi server which is located in europe. Edited September 24, 2012 by emanphoto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLing Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 One of these days I should have someone come and set something like that up for me. I knew it was too good too be true (accidental pun) as things are still wonky but not as bad as this morning or last night. (knocks on wood) Exactly same problem two weeks ago with TOT. No problems what so ever using my proxi server which is located in europe. It's easy to set up a proxi servers or VPN There are plenty of free ones around although I was never too satiesfied with the download speeds they have. I use one based in Switzerland (SwissVPN) as it seams to be petty reliable at a fair price.Although it doesn't allow me to watch british tv on line but there are several VPN in most countries you could use if watching online tv is impotant to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewlyMintedThai Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Aaarrrgh! Same problem again tonight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbrain Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 (edited) I had these issues many moons ago when i still was lucky to have True high speed adsl, now I'm on horrible Dtac 3G, and the way to work around it was to enter the true proxy in your browser settings.So one day everything would work only throught the True proxy, while another day you would need to disable the proxy to connect to anything. Proxy Server = proxy.trueintenret.co.th Port = 8080 You can also enter : proxy.asianet.co.th Edited September 24, 2012 by jbrain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewlyMintedThai Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Thanks very much! using proxy.asianet.co.th solved the problem proxy.trueinternet.co.th didn't work at all for me Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tippaporn Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I may as well chime in, too. I haven't been able to get on Thaivisa for the last two days. I use Chrome and Spotflux. The odd thing, though, is that I've lost all reply options and toolbars when replying to a topic. Which sucks as I'd like to link to some photos in another topic but have no way of doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emanphoto Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 (edited) I had that problem earlier today with the Yahoo mail website and the buttons there which fortunately works fine now. Which is more than I can say for thaivisa.com, and numerous other links I happen to click. I tried adding to my "Web Proxy (HTTP)" in my network system prefs both proxy.asianet.co.th and proxy.trueinternet.co.th with no luck. I have the feeling I may be doing it wrong though. Open to suggestions! I may as well chime in, too. I haven't been able to get on Thaivisa for the last two days. I use Chrome and Spotflux. The odd thing, though, is that I've lost all reply options and toolbars when replying to a topic. Which sucks as I'd like to link to some photos in another topic but have no way of doing it. Edited September 24, 2012 by emanphoto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 True has regular problems with its DNS servers. Use OpenDNS or Google public DNS instead, and these problems will go away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emanphoto Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share Posted September 25, 2012 I will definitely give that a whirl today! Seems quite easy to set up too. http://use.opendns.com/ I won't pretend I know anything about what causes this, but I find it interesting that the Tor browser can get around this issue, albeit slowly. Also one has to change the settings as flash won't work in Tor otherwise. Also I find that our DSL goes offline daily. I have a chat app open whenever the machine is on as this app tells me when I have new emails in some accts. I see people on my list start to disappear and I know I'm not online at that moment. True has regular problems with its DNS servers. Use OpenDNS or Google public DNS instead, and these problems will go away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbrain Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 (edited) I will definitely give that a whirl today! Seems quite easy to set up too. http://use.opendns.com/ I won't pretend I know anything about what causes this, but I find it interesting that the Tor browser can get around this issue, albeit slowly. Also one has to change the settings as flash won't work in Tor otherwise. Also I find that our DSL goes offline daily. I have a chat app open whenever the machine is on as this app tells me when I have new emails in some accts. I see people on my list start to disappear and I know I'm not online at that moment. True has regular problems with its DNS servers. Use OpenDNS or Google public DNS instead, and these problems will go away. I'm sure the cause of the problem is beyond their responsibility.You should not forget that after all Thaialnd is the internet hub of Asia Edited September 25, 2012 by jbrain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paggamb Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Last night TRUE got problem again, so I opened this site with DTAC 3G without any problem. Many Thais call TRUE as TUI which means buffalo. That's very negative in Thai. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emanphoto Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 I find it interesting that on the Transmission website, the download link for the app is blocked in both Firefox and Safari. Thanks to whoever here steered me to Tor browser which got around that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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