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[dave.m]

I have come across a thread on VNU about  lots of Orange subscribers not being able to get certain sites.
This is the thread:
http://forums.vnunet.com/thread.jspa?threadID=128890&tstart=0
I am on Orange and it is working OK EXCEPT for the sites mentioned in the thread which are:
www.hmv.co.uk
www.waterstones.com
www.play.com
I tried them and they all timed out, no idea why but Orange are saying it is not their end.
Could any non-Orange person please try them and let us know.
Thanks.
 dave

[kitz]

All sites are working fine here.

However Ive just done a tracert to each and none of those webservers are responding to ICMP pings.
Therefore I strongly suspect it could be an MTU problem. 

Other sites that may not work are hotmail, ebay etc.

Try lowering your MTU to 1430 - or even 1400. (I'd try 1430 first).
Details how to do that - MTU tweaking.
Tweaking MTU on Vista

[dave.m]

Thanks Kitz.
It is not bothering me so I will leave my settings.
Just seen your post over the road.
It should help those who need advice.
Cheers,
dave

[kitz]

yw.

It wont be the first time that this has happened to Orange users. 
They "tweaked" something on their network about a year or so ago which caused the same situation for an awful lot of their customers.
In fact it was such a nuisance for orange users, that Orange Problems linked customers to my site on how to rectify the situation.