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#112815 21-Dec-2012 16:26

My PC, W7-64, can't connect to the iTunes store. I've reinstalled, I've run diagnostics, I've googled, nothing seems to have helped - I don't even know where to start trying to fix it.

The old version worked fine, I've bought heaps of stuff. I just want to buy an album for my Mum. The only other place to buy it's Amazon, and they won't sell outside the US.

I've attached a screen shot of diagnosics. When I click "help" it says "can't help you're not connected to the internet". As I'm posting this I clearly am connected.

Info:
- Windows firewall is off
- No proxy
- Astrill is turned off
- Primary DNS 203.97.78.43

Help? Can others on Telstra Clear access iTunes fine?

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#736131 21-Dec-2012 18:34

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#736132 21-Dec-2012 18:35

I flushed my DNS cache, and I emptied my hosts file which had lots of ad servers mapped to localhost. Neither helped :(

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#736138 21-Dec-2012 18:58

I am on TelstraClear and have just tried accessing my iTunes account, no problems here.

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#736142 21-Dec-2012 19:03

Thanks, at least I know it's not TC. I'll try a selective startup, see if another service is interfering. It's not antivirus. Nothing else is resident that I know about that does network stuff. The iTunes store is just ports 80/443 so nothing fancy there.

The problem with apple: when things go wrong it's hard to fix up sometimes.

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#736172 21-Dec-2012 22:07

Would someone on TC please do this tracert and ping for me please? The apple website says I should be able to ping them but I can't. My partners computer can't either but she's on XP, and her iTunes works fine. She's on wireless, though a second router, but same internet connection.

tracert phobos.apple.com
ping albert.apple.com

Tracing route to phobos.apple.com.akadns.net [17.154.66.38]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 14 ms 10 ms 9 ms lo0.internet.ivpn.pe25.telstraclear.net
4 21 ms 60 ms 19 ms ie2-g-0-0-0.telstraclear.net
5 23 ms 21 ms 25 ms ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net [203.98.
50.251]
6 234 ms 131 ms 206 ms unknown.telstraglobal.net [134.159.174.37]
7 148 ms 149 ms 154 ms i-0-0-4-0.tlot-core01.bx.telstraglobal.net [202.
84.142.118]
8 151 ms 156 ms 182 ms i-0-4-0-0.eqnx-core01.bi.telstraglobal.net [202.
84.144.202]
9 158 ms 158 ms 161 ms i-0-0-0-1.eqnx03.bi.telstraglobal.net [202.84.25
1.50]
10 175 ms 180 ms 174 ms l3-peer.eqnx03.pr.telstraglobal.net [134.159.62.
198]
11 179 ms 193 ms 190 ms ae-4-90.edge2.SanJose3.Level3.net [4.69.152.209]

12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
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30 * * * Request timed out.

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#736186 21-Dec-2012 23:24

It wouldn't happen to be itunes 11 would it? I have had heaps of problems with it, and had to downgrade back to 10. The apple forums are full of people who have problems with it. There is a downgrade guide on tehir forums. It isn't that easy to downgrade, as the library file will only work with 11, so you have to find an archived library file.

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#736211 22-Dec-2012 08:21

Yes iTunes 11, but it works on my partners XP machine. Downgrade sounds like a good idea thanks, I have fairly good backups.

Can I just delete my library file and recreate it? I don't really use iTunes that much, just for apps from the iPod which I rarely use, and downloading a bit of music occasionally.

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#736215 22-Dec-2012 08:36

Damn, downgrading doesn't seem to have helped. It was quite painless, grab the new version, and iTunes backs up its own library from time to time.

I vaguely remember doing something weird with networking and SSL a few months back, changing all sorts of networking stuff. If I can recall what that was maybe that messed with things. Everything else still works, and I was removing restrictions, not adding them.