And finally-- a resolution, although not one I would have expected.
It turns out to have been a problem with the wireless router provided by my ISP, not a port issue, after all. I had to lower the MTU to 1460, and suddenly: I had a connection once again to all the sites I hadn't been able to view before.
Wild. But I wanted to include the solution here in case someone runs into the same issue again.
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Seems as if the issue is with my ISP--I can connect to all the sites in question from another ISP, and when I talked with the people from my ISP, they say the only thing they're doing is blocking port 80.
So the follow-up to my original question is this: Could all of these problems be caused by a blocked port 80?Leave a comment:
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Timeouts All Over The Place
Hello all,
I'm not a developer but a user with a really frustrating issue that I am sure someone on here is expert enough to figure out.
When I use certain ASP form-based pages to submit data, I always get locked into a permanent wait that inevitably ends in a timeout and an error. This happens using Firefox and IE alike.
One perfect example of a site I cannot use (but can fill the forms out on) is the...
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