my computer won't let me go to pet talk

[tomkatzid]

All of a sudden our home computers won't go to pet talk. it says page can not be displayed. help what do i do, what did i do to make it do this. it will go to any and all other sites. now i am on dial up, we have cable. it wouldn't let me go there on juno either, so i went to my yahoo mail and it did let me in that way, clicking on an e mail private message and then pet talk. can anyone help me. send me an e mail. since i cant read posts here on dial up it takes waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. we have xp and havent added or deleted any programs lately. please help i can not live without pet talk and i can not live with dial up.
Katz
i will go in to user cp and fix it so i can get e mails now. it has to be e mail cause it wont let me get a PM either. hopefully the e mail is just regular e mail and not something that i have to read through pet talk.
this will kill me if i can't get on this site any more. i'm so scared

[Karen]

Wait, how did you post if you couldn't "get to Pet Talk!" I'm confused - you appear to be here ...

[tomkatzid]

please e mail me any one who can help.

i have cable. i can not get here from cable. it says page can not be displayed. i can get to any other site, anyand all sites, no problem. just not pet talk. i used juno dial up, to get here now.. i can not type in www.petoftheday.com and get here on juno dail up , it doesnt work. i had to go to my mail in juno dail up , yahoo, and go to an e mail of a PM and go to that and then click on the logo of pet of the day. this does not work with the cable. only the dial up. please help. do i need to call the cable provider?
i am getting scared.
catdad is trying to help, but i'm scared
everything worked fine at 2am and not at 8am. all other short cuts work, we can go to any site on the web, just not pet talk
please pleas help.
send me an e mail it is WAY to hard to get here to read the posts that might offer help.
Katz

[wolfsoul]

I've been having troubles getting on too -- but not just at home. It's happened lots at school and the library too. I thought maybe PT was just making some changes or something. It hasn't happened since yesterday though. All it does, is takes about 5-10 minutes to load one page. Sometimes the page will show, other times it will say the page can not be displayed.

[CatDad]

I talked and worked with Katz and she is able to get back to the site. We are still not quite sure why she was having a problem. However, she can at least get here.

Wolfsoul, unfortuanately it was probably not the same issue. We think that hers was internal to her home network. Sorry.

[tomkatzid]

Catdad.


We can come here again. Wow that was so strange. The regular address does not for for us any more. So now when I get an e-mail saying someone has posted to a thread I am signed up for I can not just click on it and go to Pet Talk. I have to use the IP address to access the Pet Talk site. Something in the router probably. More hoops to jump through, but at least we can come here. It was a long day not being able to read stuff. I had the day off too.
Thanks to Catdad we are back.
Katz
I will test it out tomorrow with just the cable modem box and the computer bypassing the router.

[CatDad]

Let me know what happens.

I really am interested. Just my inner geek showing through.

[trayi52]

CatDad, the inner geek will come in handy to all of us, be sure and stick around, we may need you.

[Rio and Me]

Mine does that ocansionaly and i just click REFREASH and it apears,
dont know why it does it but REFREASH works, try it!
it does it with others site sometimes to and REFREASH works with them as well!!!

[tomkatzid]

Refresh didn't work for the computers. We think it's in the router. I will hook up one computer with just the cable modem and no router to check it. But what a smart guy to get the IP address and go in that way.
Geeks are Great

[CatDad]

Originally posted by trayi52
CatDad, the inner geek will come in handy to all of us, be sure and stick around, we may need you.

Always happy to help someone, if I can.

I do not pretend to know all, and there are things that I may not be able to help with. I will definately let you know if that is the case. However, I have been around the "computer" block a few times and do know a few things.

So, now that the proper expectations have been set. Please feel free, if you have something you need help with.

[AmberLee]

I'm having similar trouble. Finally signed off my DSL ISP and am using my dial-up one (It's SOOOO slow!). Refresh doesn't work on my DSL at least, and yes, I was hoping it was on PT side, but see now it wasn't...

[tomkatzid]

Amber do you have a router?

[CatDad]

Hi Amber,

I just send you a PM. Maybe I can help.

Katz is right however that is a question that needs to be answered.

Bryan

[anna_66]

Originally posted by CatDad
Always happy to help someone, if I can.

Please feel free, if you have something you need help with.

Maybe you could answer a question for me
For the last week or so I have had a problem. My homepage has been changing For some reason, once I was on pt and went to go to the next page & a porn site came up It happened quite a few times. Karen said to empty my cache & it seemed to work for a little while, but now at least once a day I go to my homepage & it's different than it should be. I just don't understand. I haven't had the porn site pop up anymore, and I never authorized my homepage to be changed at any time.
Do you have any thoughts on this? I have XP and internet explorer.