Totallympics Suggestions and Problems Thread

[Sindo 1,694]

13 hours ago, LDOG said:

I'm in tears, finally I have access after months. For some reason I can only enter the site from my phone. Surely it must be a problem with my home internet connection. 

Really? What was the issue you were facing when trying to access the website? It's very weird, please give me some information so I can investigate if it's an issue of the website.

[Grassmarket 4,102]

2 hours ago, Sindo said:

Really? What was the issue you were facing when trying to access the website? It's very weird, please give me some information so I can investigate if it's an issue of the website.

Only thing I could think of would be some kind of DNS lookup error at the  end.  Have seen it before, but usually corrects itself within a day at most.

Edited April 2, 2025 by Grassmarket

[heywoodu 16,142]

27 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Only thing I could think of would be some kind of DNS lookup error at the  end.  Have seen it before, but usually corrects itself within a day at most.

But that wouldn't explain one Argentinian user being unable to connect, while another had no issue (@konig), would it? Unless the latter might have been using a VPN maybe?

[Federer91 3,080]

16 hours ago, LDOG said:

I'm in tears, finally I have access after months. For some reason I can only enter the site from my phone. Surely it must be a problem with my home internet connection. 

Maybe you need to clear the cookies and cache on your desktop browser. I think i also had some trouble accessing the site a few years back on my laptop, but when i cleared the data everything was fine.

[Grassmarket 4,102]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

But that wouldn't explain one Argentinian user being unable to connect, while another had no issue (@konig), would it? Unless the latter might have been using a VPN maybe?

Each provider can have different DNS settings.  Can also configure a choice of DNS servers at PC level - been a long time since I've had to think about this!

 

 

 

 

Edited April 2, 2025 by Grassmarket

[phelps 8,388]

I also experienced the same issues with other websites in the past 2 years (one was non the less than mlb.tv, which I could reach only behind an Italian vpn for months 2 years ago)

 

it came out that here it was connected to the fucking anti-piracy shield of the Italian government (despite I'm not using any pirate website, only free or paid official ones), with some providers having a lot of their subnet addresses completely blocked because of one signaled violation within their CDN

 

however, I don't think it's the same kind of issue in  of course

 

the only advice I can give, it's to try and connect under a vpn (even of your own Country, but still under a vpn)

 

normally this overcomes all kinds of blocks at any level, intentional or unintentional

 

and if a home broadband connection doesn't work, always try the data connection of your smartphone (if you have one) before starting to seriously worry

[LDOG 2,472]

17 hours ago, phelps said:

I also experienced the same issues with other websites in the past 2 years (one was non the less than mlb.tv, which I could reach only behind an Italian vpn for months 2 years ago)

 

it came out that here it was connected to the fucking anti-piracy shield of the Italian government (despite I'm not using any pirate website, only free or paid official ones), with some providers having a lot of their subnet addresses completely blocked because of one signaled violation within their CDN

 

however, I don't think it's the same kind of issue in  of course

 

the only advice I can give, it's to try and connect under a vpn (even of your own Country, but still under a vpn)

 

normally this overcomes all kinds of blocks at any level, intentional or unintentional

 

and if a home broadband connection doesn't work, always try the data connection of your smartphone (if you have one) before starting to seriously worry

Yes, smartphone data is the only way for me. I have tried with different devices which have different browsers and at a different homes with different internet providers and nothing seemed to work for me. The website rejected connection every time. 

[Sindo 1,694]

9 minutes ago, LDOG said:

Yes, smartphone data is the only way for me. I have tried with different devices which have different browsers and at a different homes with different internet providers and nothing seemed to work for me. The website rejected connection every time. 

And now everything is working fine?

[LDOG 2,472]

5 minutes ago, Sindo said:

And now everything is working fine?

No, screen still showing "err connection refused" on my laptop.

[Sindo 1,694]

16 minutes ago, LDOG said:

No, screen still showing "err connection refused" on my laptop.

Can you please send me a screenshot of this?