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Can get email and newsgroups but not web, same from three wifi sources
I'm using win7 on the laptop, but posting to win10 also because you guys
know things too! The little window that opens from my systray icon says I'm connnected and connected to the internet, and email and newsgroups work okay, but neither Firefox nor Opera will load a webpage. In the systray is an image of 5 bars, getting taller to the right. My recollection is that these used to be filled with a color when I was on the net. Now they are only the outlines of the bars. Is my recollection correct. What does it mean if there is only the outline? Or maybe it's not the systray icon itself but the list of possibile wifi signals that get colored in? In that case, the wifi it's connected to is green at the top of all 5 bars but others from my n'bors have only 2 or 3 bars. I haven't changed any settings but there continue to be MS updates and there might have been one since last May. Could one have changed something? Could this be about firewalls? My laptop was working fine last May and I didn't use it until 2 weeks ago, at a hotel for a night. I thought I was connected to the hotel's wifi, but I definitely know how to connect to my phone, which I've used many times as a hotspot. I could finally get email and newsgroups but not the web. Now I'm home and the computer connected automatically to my home wifi, and same problem. I have to go on another trip in a week and if this is a hardware problem, I'll have to hurry up and buy another laptop. I haven't dropped the thing, so I'm hoping it's a software problem that we/you can solve. |
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Can get email and newsgroups but not web, same from three wifi sources
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:07:52 -0500, micky
wrote: I'm using win7 on the laptop, but posting to win10 also because you guys know things too! The little window that opens from my systray icon says I'm connnected and connected to the internet, and email and newsgroups work okay, but neither Firefox nor Opera will load a webpage. It gets as far as "Performing a TLS handshake with [the url]. In the systray is an image of 5 bars, getting taller to the right. My recollection is that these used to be filled with a color when I was on the net. Now they are only the outlines of the bars. Is my recollection correct. What does it mean if there is only the outline? |
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Can get email and newsgroups but not web, same from three wifisources
On 12/02/2019 21:20, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:07:52 -0500, micky wrote: I'm using win7 on the laptop, but posting to win10 also because you guys know things too! The little window that opens from my systray icon says I'm connnected and connected to the internet, and email and newsgroups work okay, but neither Firefox nor Opera will load a webpage. It gets as far as "Performing a TLS handshake with [the url]. In the systray is an image of 5 bars, getting taller to the right. My recollection is that these used to be filled with a color when I was on the net. Now they are only the outlines of the bars. Is my recollection correct. What does it mean if there is only the outline? It means you have a very weak signal and the connection speed is therefore very low. Email and newsgroups work because they use only text requiring a very small download whereas these days even the simplest normal website is full of junk requiring a major download. If you try a text only website it will probably work OK, such as http://lite.cnn.io/en |
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Can get email and newsgroups but not web, same from three wifi sources
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:44:49 +0000, MikeS
wrote: On 12/02/2019 21:20, micky wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:07:52 -0500, micky wrote: I'm using win7 on the laptop, but posting to win10 also because you guys know things too! The little window that opens from my systray icon says I'm connnected and connected to the internet, and email and newsgroups work okay, but neither Firefox nor Opera will load a webpage. It gets as far as "Performing a TLS handshake with [the url]. In the systray is an image of 5 bars, getting taller to the right. My recollection is that these used to be filled with a color when I was on the net. Now they are only the outlines of the bars. Is my recollection correct. What does it mean if there is only the outline? It means you have a very weak signal and the connection speed is therefore very low. Email and newsgroups work because they use only text requiring a very small download whereas these days even the simplest normal website is full of junk requiring a major download. If you try a text only website it will probably work OK, such as http://lite.cnn.io/en You're right!! |
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SOLVED Can get email and newsgroups but not web, same from three wifi sources
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:49:43 -0500, micky
wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:44:49 +0000, MikeS wrote: On 12/02/2019 21:20, micky wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:07:52 -0500, micky wrote: I'm using win7 on the laptop, but posting to win10 also because you guys know things too! The little window that opens from my systray icon says I'm connnected and connected to the internet, and email and newsgroups work okay, but neither Firefox nor Opera will load a webpage. It gets as far as "Performing a TLS handshake with [the url]. In the systray is an image of 5 bars, getting taller to the right. My recollection is that these used to be filled with a color when I was on the net. Now they are only the outlines of the bars. Is my recollection correct. What does it mean if there is only the outline? It means you have a very weak signal and the connection speed is therefore very low. Email and newsgroups work because they use only text requiring a very small download whereas these days even the simplest normal website is full of junk requiring a major download. If you try a text only website it will probably work OK, such as http://lite.cnn.io/en You're right!! So I moved closer to the router, and it worked better. I thought I was close enough. I'm like an idiot newbie. :-() |
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SOLVED Can get email and newsgroups but not web, same fromthree wifi sources
micky wrote:
You're right!! So I moved closer to the router, and it worked better. I thought I was close enough. I'm like an idiot newbie. :-() But, you got a fix in 55 minutes. A noobie couldn't do that. A noobie would still be throwing the laptop down the front steps in the hopes a cracked screen would fix it :-/ Paul |
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SOLVED Can get email and newsgroups but not web, same from three wifi sources
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 12 Feb 2019 19:25:08 -0500, Paul
wrote: micky wrote: You're right!! So I moved closer to the router, and it worked better. I thought I was close enough. I'm like an idiot newbie. :-() But, you got a fix in 55 minutes. A noobie couldn't do that. A noobie would still be throwing the laptop down the front steps in the hopes a cracked screen would fix it :-/ Paul Thanks, Paul. I needed that. |
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