Trouble accessing DP

I have a new PC -- a Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows 7. It accesses all other websites quick as a flash, but when I try to access debatepolitics.com it won't load most of the time. Occasionally it will load a page, but when trying to load a thread on that page it won't load. Yesterday, it seemed to work just fine.

I also have a windows/8 machine and it works fine as does my iPad mini and iPod touch.

Any ideas out there?

pbrauer said:

I have a new PC -- a Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows 7. It accesses all other websites quick as a flash, but when I try to access debatepolitics.com it won't load most of the time. Occasionally it will load a page, but when trying to load a thread on that page it won't load. Yesterday, it seemed to work just fine.

I also have a windows/8 machine and it works fine as does my iPad mini and iPod touch.

Any ideas out there?

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That is exactly what I have. No problems.

pbrauer said:

I have a new PC -- a Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows 7. It accesses all other websites quick as a flash, but when I try to access debatepolitics.com it won't load most of the time. Occasionally it will load a page, but when trying to load a thread on that page it won't load. Yesterday, it seemed to work just fine.

I also have a windows/8 machine and it works fine as does my iPad mini and iPod touch.

Any ideas out there?

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which browser are you using?

Helix said:

which browser are you using?

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Google Chrome. BTW, I forgot to say that it worked fine yesterday.

pbrauer said:

Google Chrome. BTW, I forgot to say that it worked fine yesterday.

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i use chrome; that should work fine. might try clearing all of your cache and cookies out of the browser. sometimes that will fix it.

pbrauer said:

I have a new PC -- a Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows 7. It accesses all other websites quick as a flash, but when I try to access debatepolitics.com it won't load most of the time. Occasionally it will load a page, but when trying to load a thread on that page it won't load. Yesterday, it seemed to work just fine.

I also have a windows/8 machine and it works fine as does my iPad mini and iPod touch.

Any ideas out there?

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The Chinese are out there to get you and they are using their merchandise as means to control your output! What were you going to say to have invited such governmental attention?

pbrauer said:

I have a new PC -- a Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows 7. It accesses all other websites quick as a flash, but when I try to access debatepolitics.com it won't load most of the time. Occasionally it will load a page, but when trying to load a thread on that page it won't load. Yesterday, it seemed to work just fine.

I also have a windows/8 machine and it works fine as does my iPad mini and iPod touch.

Any ideas out there?

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I was having similar problems earlier this year with a new computer and windows, using Google Chrome, and Red suggested I try using FireFox as my browser, if only for DP, and I haven't had any problems since.

pbrauer said:

Occasionally it will load a page, but when trying to load a thread on that page it won't load.

Any ideas out there?

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pbrauer said:

I have a new PC -- a Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows 7. It accesses all other websites quick as a flash, but when I try to access debatepolitics.com it won't load most of the time. Occasionally it will load a page, but when trying to load a thread on that page it won't load. Yesterday, it seemed to work just fine.

I also have a windows/8 machine and it works fine as does my iPad mini and iPod touch.

Any ideas out there?

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Maybe your computer is trying to tell you something?

pbrauer said:

Google Chrome. BTW, I forgot to say that it worked fine yesterday.

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I'm using chrome, no problems here.

I don't know what I did, but the problem seems to have gone away, hopefully it won't return. I contacted Comcast/Xfinity and Norton and neither of them were of help. I have downloaded software I wanted such as Open Office from Apache. Whenever, you download software it more often than not you get software that you didn't ask for or wanted. I think this was part of the problem as I uninstalled some of those things and the problem went away.

I believe that was only part of the problem. As I stated in the OP, DP was the only website I had a problem with. So, is DP different than other websites? The answer is yes it is different than most other websites. It has a portion of its content that is not available unless you are a registered user. That being every forum in DP Extras. http://www.debatepolitics.com/dp-extras/

I would also point out that it wasn't just Chrome where I had the problem, it was all of them.. IE, Chrome, Firefox...

Be careful when you download stuff from the internet

Forum operating at a crawl for me the last couple days. Other forums and websites, no problems.

I have a problem accessing this site as well. I can log in, and a message appears, welcoming me to the site, but I'm not really logged on. I have to log on at least 4 more times before I'm logged in. I have found a quicker solution, though. I just put a few letters in the user name box and click log in. When I get the message, stating that DP doesn't recognize me, I then input my user name and password and voila! I'm in like flint. There is another discussion forum that I have to do this as well. I have heard it's a cookie problem, but I allow websites to install cookies. I just don't allow the cookies to stay after I turn off Firefox. I don't save history, either.