'This page can't be displayed'

vixen1500

Hi,


This is driving me crazy


Any one know why I keep getting this or if there is anything I can do to fix it?


Running internet explorer on windows 8.1


Thanks

enfield_freddy

umm , which page?

vixen1500

enfield_freddy wrote: »

umm , which page?

Loads of pages


Or I get internet explorer is not responding


Pulling my hair out

Tony69

Do you have a wardrobe that maybe needs de-cluttering?

enfield_freddy

vixen1500 wrote: »

Loads of pages


Or I get internet explorer is not responding


Pulling my hair out

copy/paste the address of a page that will not load

captainhindsight_2

If it is temperamental it could be your internet connection cutting in and out, I am in a very rural area it this happens to me very often.

Or/also are they very large pages you are going to and it could be explorer crashing. Have you tired using a different browser and if you get the same message, say chrome or firefox?

enfield_freddy

or can we see an example of the pages not being loaded (to check syntax etc)

vixen1500

captainhindsight wrote: »

If it is temperamental it could be your internet connection cutting in and out, I am in a very rural area it this happens to me very often.

Or/also are they very large pages you are going to and it could be explorer crashing. Have you tired using a different browser and if you get the same message, say chrome or firefox?

think explorer has been involved in a major crash then, also the spinning arrow goes round very very slowly at times, in North Norfolk so fairly rural.


Ran CC and just wondering if there was anything else I might do but sounds like it is more of an internet problem than one on my computer

mgdavid

Vixen I had this off and on all last evening. I'm in M4 corridor with fast broadband, use Firefox and haven't experienced anything like it before. I hazard a guess that it was a partial failure in the internet somewhere, maybe a DNS problem.

Strider590

I did some research on this a few months ago, the general consensus is that it's because all internet traffic is being sent through your ISPs content filtering proxy, which is basically flat out trying to stop people accessing content deemed "illegal"..........

Basically every webpage request your browser makes, has to go through a filter and if that filter responds a bit too slowly, then the browser will say "Page cannot be displayed".

The list of "bad" websites is still quite small, so this will only get worse as time goes on, because the bigger the list, the longer it takes to check a website URL and IP address against it. Easy to check a list that's 10 lines long, not so easy to check one that's 5 million lines long.

It may help to use a different browser as well, I think Firefox (for example) waits longer for a response.

The people voted for it by not standing up and saying "no" and coming out with nonsense like "it'll only affect the people who are doing it". Well now ya'll made the beds, we all have to lay in them.

onomatopoeia99

Strider590 wrote: »

The people voted for it by not standing up and saying "no" and coming out with nonsense like "it'll only affect the people who are doing it". Well now ya'll made the beds, we all have to lay in them.

I use an ISP that blocks nothing and has no filtering proxy, it also has no "adult content filtering" to opt out of (if you select filtering when you order broadband from them you are told to use a different supplier).

I stood up and said no to censorship and I stand by my convictions by using a relatively expensive ISP that operates its business in a way that I agree with.