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Aspiegaming
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15 Nov 2024, 12:00 pm

I can access my Google email, but my Yahoo email connection times out. I can start up Steam but it won't load the discussion forums. Reddit doesn't load. Borderlands 2 takes forever to create an online session and when it loads Shift is offline.

I don't know what to do.


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15 Nov 2024, 12:40 pm

If the problem persists, you could try contacting your ISP?

Ask them to look for any problems on your line?



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15 Nov 2024, 1:04 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:
If the problem persists, you could try contacting your ISP?

Ask them to look for any problems on your line?


I did. It got resolved. I don't know what the problem was though. Network congestion, maybe?


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15 Nov 2024, 1:41 pm

Aspiegaming wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
If the problem persists, you could try contacting your ISP?

Ask them to look for any problems on your line?


I did. It got resolved. I don't know what the problem was though. Network congestion, maybe?


Yep, that sort of thing can happen from time to time. I have been with many different ISP's over the years, and some were a lot worse than others. I remember years ago with copper-wire broadband, that was the worst with having to ring up my ISP to fix issues.

There was no local problem, I always wire computers with Ethernet to a router/modem, it was just something probably like you have experienced, i.e, unspecified 'network congestion' that requires someone, somewhere, to press a few buttons to fix.