Problems accessing MSE

thriftykatie

Help please! For the last 3 days I have been unable to access the MSE website from my home laptop or PC, yet I can do so here at work, so obviously it is something to do with my home network and not the site itself. I have BT broadband and a wireless router and had no problems in the past. Now it just comes up with a message saying it cannot connect but there are no problems with other websites (apart from Pigsback - it won't accept my password). Have run cleaner and virus check etc but wondering what else I can try? Have been lost being unable to read the forums!

*!*HIBS*!*

Is it possible that your firewall has accidentally blocked access to the MSE site? Open up your firewall and check through the access settings.

thriftykatie

Sorted thank you - so simple when you're told what to do! Now I don't need to worry about an MSE free weekend!

BillScarab

try typing http://213.129.77.16 in the address bar in your browser and see if that works. If it does it suggests you have a DNS problem in which case try

start, run, cmd

Then in the black dos screen that appears type ipconfig /flushdns on each PC

See if that fixes it.

The other thing you could try is to shut down your PC(s) and switch off you router and modem. Leave for five minutes and then switch it all back on again.