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ctfc Jan 16th 2011 9:21 pm

Annoying error
 
I get this error a lot when trying to get on the bored:

"Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: ""
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time."

Anyone help?

MataHari Jan 16th 2011 9:33 pm

Re: Annoying error
 
no...never, lol

yeah, all the time, but I've solved it now, thanks to MM...I'll forward the pm to you.

ctfc Jan 16th 2011 10:44 pm

Re: Annoying error
 
Sorted. Dank u wel

Millhouse Jan 16th 2011 11:10 pm

Re: Annoying error
 

Originally Posted by ctfc (Post 9107633)
Sorted. Dank u wel

so what is the problem?!

norsk Jan 16th 2011 11:33 pm

Re: Annoying error
 
i've seen this a million times since moving to saudi. the error message implies that there is a problem on the server side, but usually this is due to a network transport error (ie gateway, dns, proxy, connection to internet) on the user side.

so why is it happening? well, the simple answer is that the networks in the region are absolutely sub-standard in terms of quality and capacity.

unless there is something wrong with your computer or the setup of your internet connection (ie modem/router) there isn't a hell of a lot you can do to fix it...

by the way, what was the magic fix from MM? use google dns or something like that?

Madam Medusa Jan 17th 2011 12:46 am

Re: Annoying error
 

Originally Posted by norsk (Post 9107719)
i've seen this a million times since moving to saudi. the error message implies that there is a problem on the server side, but usually this is due to a network transport error (ie gateway, dns, proxy, connection to internet) on the user side.

so why is it happening? well, the simple answer is that the networks in the region are absolutely sub-standard in terms of quality and capacity.

unless there is something wrong with your computer or the setup of your internet connection (ie modem/router) there isn't a hell of a lot you can do to fix it...

by the way, what was the magic fix from MM? use google dns or something like that?

well obviously, norsk, i'm just brilliant, lol...

no, it was simply to switch on, or off, the proxy...

MM, xx

csdf Jan 17th 2011 2:14 am

Re: Annoying error
 
I've seen it all over the place: Bahrain, Saudi, Abu Dhabi. It is, as someone said above, a result of the crappy networks over here. For the technically minded, a way of overcoming the issue is to use the IP address of the site you're trying to reach, rather than the URL. You can get the IP address by pinging the URL from a command prompt.

Millhouse Jan 17th 2011 2:28 am

Re: Annoying error
 

Originally Posted by csdf (Post 9107923)
I've seen it all over the place: Bahrain, Saudi, Abu Dhabi. It is, as someone said above, a result of the crappy networks over here. For the technically minded, a way of overcoming the issue is to use the IP address of the site you're trying to reach, rather than the URL. You can get the IP address by pinging the URL from a command prompt.

ah, so it is a DNS problem.... use the google DNS

norsk Jan 17th 2011 4:20 am

Re: Annoying error
 

Originally Posted by csdf (Post 9107923)
I've seen it all over the place: Bahrain, Saudi, Abu Dhabi. It is, as someone said above, a result of the crappy networks over here. For the technically minded, a way of overcoming the issue is to use the IP address of the site you're trying to reach, rather than the URL. You can get the IP address by pinging the URL from a command prompt.

using the ip instead of the domain doesn't necessarily work by the way. it depends on how the website infrastructure is configured, and how many different sites it is supporting.

for all you google dns users this isn't an optimal solution. you could experience that all websites that are using a CDN solution (some examples are facebook, itunes, bbc iplayer, and hulu) are a lot slower than if you use your ISP's DNS servers. this is because CDN's send you content from the server closest to your DNS server (and if this is google) then the server is likely much further away than the closest one to you and also likely gets a lot more traffic (due to other google dns users).

Bob Jan 17th 2011 12:19 pm

Re: Annoying error
 

Originally Posted by csdf (Post 9107923)
I've seen it all over the place: Bahrain, Saudi, Abu Dhabi. It is, as someone said above, a result of the crappy networks over here. For the technically minded, a way of overcoming the issue is to use the IP address of the site you're trying to reach, rather than the URL. You can get the IP address by pinging the URL from a command prompt.

http://98.158.194.173/

http://www.opendns.com/ but that's a good DNS alternate to google, it just happens that Google is much easier to remember.

humann Jan 18th 2011 1:00 am

Re: Annoying error
 
hi

the problem is Stc company has a lack of operating it systems as there is a lack in the top management

good luck


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