Hi all

A bit of background first: I paid £4.5k to do an IT course and the company (Advent computer training) WENT bust before I really started and I'm trying to get my money back along with a lot of other people. One of those people has set up a website to help everyone else with information and advice http://adventstudents.webs.com/

I used to be able to go to this site no problem but now when I try I have to wait for ages whilst it is 'loading' and then I get a 'HTTP 500 - internal server error' (I've tried FIREFOX and IE7 and both do the same thing) however, when I use a proxy server the site LOADS as normal

It's ironic that if I had done the course I might know what the problem was but as I haven't can anyone explain to me what's going on and/or how to fix it.


I'm using an

Acer
Aspire X1301
AMD Athlon II X2 215 Processor 2.70 GHz
3.00 GB RAM
Windows 7 home Premium 64-bit

Thanking you in advance for any help 
That error usually means the problem is with the website itself. Try changing your IP address, if your ISP allows it.
Use the first option here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/change-ipWebsite working fine here.



Ok, I just installed firefox add-on TOR button and I can go to the website no problem now.So the website is filtering out either your own ip address or else the RANGE of addresses in which it falls, WHETHER by ISP or country or whatever. Any idea why it might be doing that?
 Well it was doing it to Virgin customers, from what I understand, but that's been cleared up now. I'm a Sky customer but no-one else seems to have a problem so that rules out ISP. I'm English, live in Egland and the person who built the website is English and most of the people who use the site are English so that rules out country (don't know where the website is hosted but obviously other people here can access it)

I guess it must be filtering my IP but I have absolutely no idea why. I've not been banned from the website because when I do load the page, using the TOR button, I can still sign in.

Curiouser and curiouser!

Unless it's filtering a very narrow range of IP addresses. Are IP's tied to location in the same way landline phone numbers are?

Don't know if you can see my IP on my posts but IP on my original post was' blah.blah.blah.53' and now is 'same.same.same.21' Quote from: planetoidalee on July 26, 2010, 06:26:24 AM

Well it was doing it to Virgin customers, from what I understand, but that's been cleared up now. I'm a Sky customer but no-one else seems to have a problem so that rules out ISP. I'm English, live in Egland and the person who built the website is English and most of the people who use the site are English so that rules out country (don't know where the website is hosted but obviously other people here can access it)

I guess it must be filtering my IP but I have absolutely no idea why. I've not been banned from the website because when I do load the page, using the TOR button, I can still sign in.

Curiouser and curiouser!

Unless it's filtering a very narrow range of IP addresses. Are IP's tied to location in the same way landline phone numbers are?

Don't know if you can see my IP on my posts but IP on my original post was' blah.blah.blah.53' and now is 'same.same.same.21'