Ok, this is weird ...

[DukeofNuke]

This is the only site on the internet that works.
No where else I try to go right now will load! Not even Google or Yahoo or Amazon.
I get a "Problem Loading Page" and "Server not found" box ... everywhere but HERE!

wtf ?

[oath]

one of us! one of us! one of us!

[DukeofNuke]

It's been kinda flaky all day. Prolly weather related, and it seems to be working now.

But truly, for a while there, NOTHING would work but this site !

[obvs]

This site has been developed to use an exceptionally low amount of bandwidth, so it should work on much less reliable connections than most other sites.

This site asks your browser to cache most of the page components for a year, so when you're browsing it should only have to download the html that names each of the elements on the page and contains the text you're reading. All of the scripts, the images, and the information that describes how things should look should already exist on your computer. For example, the logo at the top of the page isn't changing between this page and the front page, so there's no need to download it repeatedly. The site's server also compresses everything before sending it.

The entirety of the page that you're viewing, when compressed, is a little less than 45 kilobytes, but your browser just needs to download the html part. When compressed, the html part is a little less than 5 kilobytes(~40 kilobits). That's about as much as a 33.6kbps modem could load in one second. Most sites transmit several times more data per page.

Items within the page are also ordered kind of like an assembly line, so that the browser can put everything together in the quickest order, so your browser can usually load things very quickly.

[TOS]

one of us! one of us! one of us!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVuYFJ20Aew

[Metacell]

Reset your router? and modem? Try router/modem setup pages to make sure they didn't accidentally change your wi-fi settings? (it's all happened to me)

[ukimalefu]

Maybe you need the magic numbers!

8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.3, 4.2.2.4, 4.2.2.5, 4.2.2.6

The 8s are google's and the 4s are Open DNS.

These go in System Preferences/network/advanced/DNS

They're magic!

If you're not sure what those are or do, you need to... wait for matt to post the proper explanation.

I will keep calling them Magic Numbers.

[DukeofNuke]

This site has been developed to use an exceptionally low amount of bandwidth, so it should work on much less reliable connections than most other sites.

This site asks your browser to cache most of the page components for a year, so when you're browsing it should only have to download the html that names each of the elements on the page and contains the text you're reading. All of the scripts, the images, and the information that describes how things should look should already exist on your computer. For example, the logo at the top of the page isn't changing between this page and the front page, so there's no need to download it repeatedly. The site's server also compresses everything before sending it.

The entirety of the page that you're viewing, when compressed, is a little less than 45 kilobytes, but your browser just needs to download the html part. When compressed, the html part is a little less than 5 kilobytes(~40 kilobits). That's about as much as a 33.6kbps modem could load in one second. Most sites transmit several times more data per page.

Items within the page are also ordered kind of like an assembly line, so that the browser can put everything together in the quickest order, so your browser can usually load things very quickly.

That's awesome, matt! You're a helluva internet engineer :toast:
I thought it was cache I was looking at (new images wouldn't load), but then there would be a new post, and my replies were posting!
Nobody else in the house could get anything to work. Without Netflix or Facebook, the females were getting snippy! The children were crying for Scooby Do, and nothing worked ... but MY internet fav.
Obviously ... Witchcraft !

[DukeofNuke]

Reset your router? and modem? Try router/modem setup pages to make sure they didn't accidentally change your wi-fi settings? (it's all happened to me)

Tried that. It helped a little but it went out again.
I'm sure it was a system problem, we've had high winds and thunderstorms the last three days, and there are Windstream trucks and their associated guys-on-poles scattered about town. I expect they will have it going today.