Originally Posted by
Allowyn
I appreciate it. My boyf is all computer amaze and can't figure it out. And he built my guild's amazing website.
Yeap, reinstalled everything, updated everything, tried browsers, etc. Couldn't even log on yesterday at all. Only saw anything through my work. It's only happened since Win10 upgrade UGH
Have you tried connecting to mmo-champions on your home network, using another device, like f.ex your phone?
(Note: this is a bit scary, mmo-champion is overflowing with 3rd party mobile hijacking ads).
To be honest, I think this might be a network issue.
This will be a bit technical. But this is how I debug those:
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Try opening up a shell (start menu -> type 'cmd').
In the shell, you have two main network analysis tools at your disposal.
Whenever you feel you cannot access mmo-champion, do one of the two following.
Code:
ping -n 1000 www.mmo-champion.com
This command will continuously send a "hello" message to the mmo-champion webserver. The server will say "hello" in return, and ping measures the time it takes for the roundtrip. (the command will repeat this 1000 times, so cancel it with CTRL-C when you feel done - it's not polite to hammer a server repeatedly for no reason). When I run it, it looks something like this:
Code:
Pinging mmo-champion.com [104.16.108.83] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 104.16.108.83: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=57
Reply from 104.16.108.83: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=57
Reply from 104.16.108.83: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=57
Reply from 104.16.108.83: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=57
Ping statistics for 104.16.108.83:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 14ms
Control-C
^C
The average time for me to connect to mmo-champion (and get a reply back) is thus about 14 ms, and most importantly, I have no packet loss (all my hello-messages came through). If you find that, when you have issues connecting to mmo-champion, that you have packet loss, that's your issue right there. Contact the ISP and give them this log from Ping. They should be able to figure it out from there.
The other tool of interest is traceroute. It looks at all servers you connect to along the way to reach f.ex mmo-champion. Where ping will tell you the time it takes to reach your destination, traceroute will tell you how long each hop along the way takes. The command is
Code:
tracert www.mmo-champion.com
My log from this command looks like this
Code:
Tracing route to mmo-champion.com [104.16.108.83]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 6 ms 6 ms 7 ms *
3 6 ms 7 ms 6 ms ti0006a400-xe1-1-0.ti.telenor.net [193.212.176.125]
4 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms ti0005c400-ae4-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.102.57]
5 14 ms 14 ms 13 ms ti0001c360-ae77-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.98.197]
6 16 ms 15 ms 17 ms ti0300b400-ae1-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.105.50]
7 16 ms 13 ms 16 ms 193.156.90.41
8 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms 104.16.108.83
Trace complete.
The first line here (192.168.1.1) is my router. The next one is a server owned by my ISP.
After that, I'm redirected through some servers owned by telenor (the major telecompany in norway - they own a lot of the backbone in this country). Nothing really interesting here. These serveres just takes me down to Oslo, Norway.
Server #7 on my way is owned by a company called Uninett in Oslo (you can look this up in https://www.iplocation.net/), before I hit mmo-champion directly (server #8). Note I didn't have to leave my country to get to this website - traceroute claims the mmo-champions.com server is actually one step away from the uninett server, somewhere in Oslo. Clearly that's not right?
It is actually. Big sites like mmo-champion use cloudflare which does things like this to protect them against ddos attacks and reduce BW costs. Part of that is distributing the sites around to smaller servers. Unfortunately, it means that the website I hit when writing a forumpost (the actual server), and the website I hit when hitting the front page (the cloudflare mirror) isn't necessarily the same server. Ping and traceroute definitively hit the cloudflare mirror. So if you feel you can access the front page, but not the forums, then you have an issue with cloudflare. Maybe they have blacklisted your IP or something? Either way something your ISP can figure out for you.
The point of this tool is, you can see how far you get before you get to the lost connection. Had I gotten to server 4 just fine, but server 5 times out or takes 20 seconds to reply, then I know my network issue resides between server 4 and 5. You can use this to identify where in the world someone just cut a cable or which server is the bottleneck. Sometimes, when your internet is slow, the traceroute will show you that your internet is being redirected through Murmansk, Russia. It happens 
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