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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: jcoffin1981 on Sun, 19 June 2016, 03:10:54
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I browse the site fairly often, but literally about half the time I get a "connection times out error." It's not just at a specific time when they may be doing site maintenance, but anytime. Is this just my computer or is this a real occurrence? It's probably the best place to shop here in the US, unless anybody else can suggest something? Do these error messages happen to you?
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Okay, this is really weird. If I activate a VPN, the site immediately works. If I shut it off and attempt to reconnect I get the same error message. I'm sure there are lots of people on here who are smarter than me. What's going on?
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It works fine here, might be some network issue you're having.
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either it's some delay in your loudly proclaiming freedom-minded government monitoring your activity, or your isp has a routing issue. your call
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I have experienced the same thing with the MK site. I emailed them from a working connection to inquire. After they did quite a lot of troubleshooting, it turned out that their server was blocking my IP address because there were too many connection attempts, which their settings interpreted as a cyber attack. After some time, they allowed connections from my IP address again.
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This is interesting. I browse the site once a week or something. I don't recall ever trying to connect many times or having lots of browser windows open or something. Calling them to unblock me is too much hassle, so I will just use the VPN if I have to.
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Really doubt that they're blocking you.
This sounds like it could be a DNS or routing issue. Have you tried replacing your ISP's provided DNS servers with Google public DNS to see if it helps?
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They have a vendor forum here and their employees are regular GeekHack users. Have you tried asking them? It wouldn't be nearly as difficult as you implied.