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Question

Some pages won't load and I'm not finding a solution. Ideas?

Aug 23, 2012 11:32AM PDT

I recently had a virus on my computer so I reinstalled Windows 7 Pro to wipe the system. After doing that I reinstalled the following programs: Microsoft Office, Java, Adobe Acrobat X, Adobe Flash Player 11, DivX, Google Chrome, and EasyTether. When I connected to the internet everything seemed fine, but some of the pages I have bookmarked don't work. Google works sometimes, but hotmail.com doesn't, usaa.com doesn't, facebook doesn't, etc. Luckily this forum works. I found a few other users who had similar problems, but am having trouble finding a fix here. I generally tether my computer to my smartphone for internet and the connection works fine. Can anybody out there let me know what lse I might need to download. At first I thought it might just be IE9, but it's the same with Google Chrome.

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Aug 26, 2012 1:15PM PDT

It appears that when using my wife's high speed internet, the pages load. However, when I go back to tethering, the pages fail to load again.

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Neat finding.
Aug 27, 2012 3:31AM PDT

We're seeing that on dial up users as well. I'm unsure if that's a problem that can be solved. Some web sites stop loading if the connection is too slow.
Bob

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It used to work
Aug 27, 2012 2:26PM PDT

The only thing about the issue that brings me to post in the forum is that before I reloaded Windows 7 onto my computer this last time, it worked just fine when tethering. That is to say, I was tethering on it the same day I reran the operating system and it was working. This leads me to think that it is a default security setting that I don't know how to change or that I'm forgetting to download something onto my computer. Unfortunately, Microsoft Update has successfully run all updates as of yesterday.

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Cellular wireless is getting slower around here.
Aug 28, 2012 8:56AM PDT

As more and more smartphones pile on, you see the speed fall off. The cure appears to be to move back to DSL/Cable/ other than cellular.
Bob

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Same Problem
Nov 28, 2012 7:14PM PST

Hi,
I have the same problem, I factory reset my laptop, and now many pages won't load. I'm wondering if you fouund the solution? I have been searchig for someone who has, but am in despair!

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Nope
Dec 30, 2012 9:46PM PST

Sorry, I'm afraid I didn't find a solution. When tethering with my phone, some pages simply wouldn't load but when I got onto a faster wifi connection all sites worked fine. I later got a new phone (same kind of phone, just new) and all pages worked when tethering with it. So I'm going to assume that in my case it really was just an issue of speed.