Something odd’s going on with web access at our house.<\/p>\n
I use my notebook computer at the table over a WiFi connection to Margie’s PC. Margie’s PC dials up and shares the Internet connection with me. She runs Norton Security as her firewall.<\/p>\n
On an regular, and increasing basis, I find that some sites just don’t respond off of my machine. IE will sit there and hum away, and either eventually come back site-unfound, or else never time out.<\/p>\n
This never happens at the office, which makes me think it’s not my machine.<\/p>\n
The sites themselves seem to vary. We’re not talking about new, untried addresses, but places like Google and MSNBC and various blogs in the blogroll. Things that I know <\/i>work.<\/p>\n
Rebooting my machine doesn’t do anything. Rebooting Margie’s sometimes does something to help, it seems, but usualy not.<\/p>\n
The problem usually gets progressively worse over time. Everything might be fine on a Friday afternoon, but by Sunday it seems like half the Internet is inaccessible.<\/p>\n
I run ZoneAlarm on my machine, but disabling it doesn’t affect the problem.<\/p>\n
The problem only affects my machine, not Margie’s. A site I cannot get to from my machine I can get to from hers with no trouble. That makes me think it’s not the ISP.<\/p>\n
My only conclusion is that Norton Security is somehow progressively shutting off stuff routed from me to the Net, or from the Net to me. Why and how, I don’t know, and I don’t see messages in the log that indicate that to me.<\/p>\n
Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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