Hi Peter, In Safari's Window menu, there is an Activity option. If you open the Activity option, you will see that it shows you the title of each web page in Safari, and expands to show all the subsidiary elements that comprise each page. The file size and loading status are shown. This can help you see if there's a problem "within" a page. So next time you visit www.woodworkforums.com in Safari, open the Activity window and see if a single file is holding up the whole site. For instance, some pages have been (mis-)designed so that they won't load unless the ads load, and if the ads don't load, you don't ever see the page. Sounds silly, but some sites are like that.
If the site drop out again, you can also try testing your ISP's basic connectivity between you and the site: Open your Applications folder, go into your Utilities folder. Open the Network Utility. Click on the Port Scan tab. Enter the domain name of the site (www.woodworkforums.com NOT http://www.woodworkforums.com). Check 'Only test ports between', and enter 80 and 80 (i.e., testing port 80 only). Click Scan. If it's successful, it'll look like this: Port Scan has started ... Port Scanning host: 174.132.135.26 Open TCP Port: 80 http Port Scan has completed ... You can then Quit the Network Utility. If you get a different result, please report back, as this may explain the problem. As a basic test for any website that's not working, you can also try this: Use Google to search for the site address (e.g., www.woodworkforums.com). Then, instead of clicking on the like, right-click on the link (or control-click if you only have a one-button mouse) and choose "Download Linked File". The home page should then download reasonably fast as www.woodworkforums.com.html If www.woodworkforums.com.html does not start downloading, or is very slow, this usually indicates a fault within the site (unless you're on dialup, in which case make the usual allowances for dialup). James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
