Why Cant I Access Uk Newspapers

[nattydread]

I live in a condo in CM and use the public WIFI system for my internet access

the past three months I have been having trouble reading UK newspapers online,they just wont load

this includes..Guardian,Independent,Observer,Mail,Times

occasionally i can get some pages late on after 12am but even this is is spasmodic

my google search,youtube,facebook,ebay all work well so I am baffled why I am experiencing this problem

am using Windows 7 with Microsoft Essentials and malware Bytes

any ideas?....thanks

[endure]

The Times is behind a paywall - subscribers only.

[Pib]

Pubic Wifi probably means a LOT of users sharing limited bandwidth. Your problem description sure sounds like low bandwidth.

A few minutes ago I googled each of the five papers mentioned and pulled up the home page of each no problem....each page appeared on my screen within a second. I'm on a True 14Mb plan in Bangkok. Sure sounds like a slow/low bandwidth connection....regarding being able to load some of the pages after midnight, as people climb in bed and logoff their devices this frees up a little bandwidth which speeds up the connection just enough for some pages to load.

[MichaelJohn]

It might be a DNS problem - consider changing your DNS servers to Googles. Just Google "Google DNS Server" and it'll tell you how to do it.

This does sometimes help, irrespective of bandwidth available.

Good luck.

[aarn]

Might just have something better for you, than a solution to reading online UK papers. Assuming you are using windows, download calibre - free book reading/news fetching service. Latest version:

http://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows.

Download and install it. For newspapers, go to the 'fetch news' symbol at top of page. Then look for 'schedule news download', scroll down to 'English (UK)'. The Times, Guardian etc are there - in some form - free. Can get yesterday's, all of last week's, etc. You have to muck around a bit = learning activity, delay Alzheimer's...

Calibre is such a good program, it turns your comp. into a newscaster, library, book converter etc. Enjoy, AA

[WilliaminBKK]

I had the same problem when I was based in the Philippines, it would take 10 minutes to download the home page and half the links were dead. Here is a sloppy solution that may help. This site converts URLS into a PDF file and it keeps the links live.

I use the paid option on this site, only $10 a year, the free option works you just can't format the page.

http://pdfcrowd.com/

I enter a site, takes 10 seconds to save the file - I open the file and read away.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Only drawback is you have to remember to recycle the PDF's when done.

[pault17]

Might just have something better for you, than a solution to reading online UK papers. Assuming you are using windows, download calibre - free book reading/news fetching service. Latest version:

http://calibre-ebook...wnload_windows.

Download and install it. For newspapers, go to the 'fetch news' symbol at top of page. Then look for 'schedule news download', scroll down to 'English (UK)'. The Times, Guardian etc are there - in some form - free. Can get yesterday's, all of last week's, etc. You have to muck around a bit = learning activity, delay Alzheimer's...

Calibre is such a good program, it turns your comp. into a newscaster, library, book converter etc. Enjoy, AA

Thanks for the info. I use Calibre to convert e-books, did not know of the "news" possibility. Makes Calibre even more useful!