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#18659 18-Jan-2008 13:28

Hi there
Have a MacBook for a week now and already im having problems grrrr - Safari wont let me log into hotmail.com and wtalk.org as of today - it was working fine as of last night though
I dont get an error message the page just doesnt load - any help will be appreciated:(

Thanks:-)

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#105515 18-Jan-2008 13:33

Could it be your Internet provider having problems instead of the software? Have you tried restarting your computer?

Can you access these sites from other computer on the same network?

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#105517 18-Jan-2008 13:40

Im using a vodem and it was working fine until this morning - I got the vodafone solutions support people to look at it as the vmc software wont log me in it kept freezing. They got it working on a different software Huawei - but its not that - Ive restarted my laptop and I am able to access these sites on a different computer.

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#105519 18-Jan-2008 13:52

I don't know if this is related but I have had endless problems with my Macbook and Safari. For some reason I occasionally get a "this page can't be loaded" error. When I look at the url if it has the "www." I remove it and it works, if it doesn't have it I add it in and it works. This could be the same thing you are experiencing. Try it and see, if it works for you then this is a short term solution, there must be a reason why it is doing it.

If it is the same issue, does anyone else have this problem or have they had it and fixed it?

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#105520 18-Jan-2008 14:02

Thanks for that - Ive fixed my hotmail problem apparently Im not supposed to tick the box where it saves my password and username which logs me in automatically. I found a way to get me through google and now its working fine but I still cant get wtalk.org to work if anyone can help thatl be great:-)

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#105523 18-Jan-2008 14:12

It doesn't seem to be your fault - wtalk doesn't load here as well.

Ping works, but no content will show which is the reason why it doesn't show an error page as there is no timeout.

EDIT: It loaded after waiting for about 5 minutes. I think that the connection has been severly restricted at the server side.

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#105528 18-Jan-2008 14:20

Manhinli thanks heaps! Thought it was me grrrr lol bought a Mac cos everyone said it was soooo good after going through an XP and a Vista - was sort of regretting my choice now - but if its not loading as you say then thats good:-)

THANKS ALL!:-)

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#105529 18-Jan-2008 14:22

Just Google 'wtalk.org' and a whole heap of Yahoo! / Yahoo!Xtra Answer pages come up with the exact same question.

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#105532 18-Jan-2008 14:33

No those posts were about 2weeks ago when it was down - it was up and running fine last night - can someone else please try www.wtalk.org and let me know if its working or not? Im at work now and we dont have access to those sites.

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#105533 18-Jan-2008 14:34

As I said before in my update, it loads, but after a long time.

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#105556 18-Jan-2008 16:34

You don't mention what release of Mac OS X you are using? I so far haven't had anything like the problems you have mentioned, and I have recently rebuilt my machines and not yet found a reason not to use safari (i.e. I've had no issues with Safari per-se).

I have had issues with IPStars "thick-client" satellite modem information pages, but that's a seperate issue ...

Any issues I have had, were related to my using the phone as a modem and dialing up through Vodafone. The issues displayed themselves in a similar fashion, and were usually resolved by restarting the connection and/or the phone. I have found a permanent solution in upgrading to WM6 and using that ...

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#105557 18-Jan-2008 16:36

It seems like a server connection issue (either the server or the host or some similar thing), as it's working great now.

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#105564 18-Jan-2008 17:10

Just clicked and login page opened in 5 seconds flat, OSX 10.5.1 and Safari, did have some issues with Safari, which I suspect

are from Transmission. It mucked the RSS feed in Safari, so went back to version 0.94, so far so good.

I did notice this problem with some pages, clicking on "return" reloaded the page. haven't yet been able to pin point

where the problem is, did spent good few hours re-installing Leopard, as there is no option to install Safari only.