unable to access google? *DELETED*

Post deleted by JBrightwell

Why did you delete this post? I came looking at this forum because I have been google-less for 3 days. When I saw your "Deleted" I checked and it was OK. Anyone any idea what the problem was?

what were the symptoms - error message etc ?

I got "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"
Tracert showed:
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [66.102.9.147] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 28 ms 23 ms 25 ms 10.0.0.2
2 25 ms 33 ms 31 ms dslgw1.186k.co.uk [88.202.158.1]
3 29 ms 33 ms 27 ms 195.82.97.237
4 34 ms 33 ms 35 ms bdr3.lon-th1.mailbox.net.uk [195.82.97.230]
5 43 ms 57 ms 47 ms mfnx-gw-a.lonap.net [193.203.5.16]
6 29 ms 28 ms 31 ms 213-152-230-99.google.net [213.152.230.99]
7 27 ms 27 ms 31 ms 72.14.238.242
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.

may have been ISP / routing specific, its been ok all day here and just now :-

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [64.233.183.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 4 ms 11 ms 192.168.1.1
2 33 ms 33 ms 55 ms anchor-hg-1-l100.router.demon.net [194.159.161.3
2]
3 34 ms 33 ms 33 ms anchor-access-4-v156.router.demon.net [194.159.1
61.193]
4 34 ms 32 ms 33 ms anchor-inside-4-g5-0-2.router.demon.net [194.159
.161.82]
5 32 ms 33 ms 33 ms anchor-border-1-g1-0-0.router.demon.net [194.70.
98.6]
6 34 ms 33 ms 33 ms 195.66.224.125
7 43 ms 41 ms 43 ms 209.85.248.80
8 41 ms 42 ms 42 ms 209.85.248.85
9 46 ms 45 ms 44 ms 64.233.175.246
10 46 ms 46 ms 48 ms 72.14.233.77
11 56 ms 54 ms 49 ms 216.239.43.30
12 45 ms 44 ms 43 ms nf-in-f99.google.com [64.233.183.99]

Trace complete.

I originally thought it was ISP specific so I raised a ticket that I an still awaiting a reply to. However, it seemed odd to me that my trace was getting into Google land (at 213.152.230.99) and timing out after that. I did a trace on nwtools which was OK but, like yours, had nothing in common with mine!

Can you try reducing the MTU value on your computer to see if that helps? Do a search for setting MTU if you don't know how.

How could he do a search - if he could not reach Google?

I meant on these forums.

other search engines are available