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I just come back from my friends house (i went there to set him up a email account) and i had a problem; "the page cannot be displayed"
He is using:

AOL wireless broadband (the stuff you have to connect to every time)
a new laptop (can't remember make)
AOl explorer (()allthough the same problem happens in IE6)

Basically, it will connect to some pages, but most of them wont work I tried connecting him to MSN explorer, Windows messenger, and many more.. but it still says "check if you are connect to the internet" which i know we are, but it just says it

So, any idea on how to fix this? i wont be going back untill tomorrow, but any ideas i will try out there.
Also any questions about my question please ask.

.OxY

What e-mail are you using? hotmail, gmail, live? 

Does it work at your house? if it does sign it up at yours.

And also tell him to move to another ISP, AOL suck.

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
What e-mail are you using? hotmail, gmail, live? 

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@live, but why do you need to know mine? Missunderstood, i tired using Yahoo! and hotmail, but still same message.

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
Does it work at your house? if it does sign it up at yours.

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Yes it works at mine, but the thing is, none of the msn/web messenger pages will load, which means i cant get messenger, or web messenger!

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
And also tell him to move to another ISP, AOL suck.

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He was gunna go with talk talk, i told him about my slow connection with talk talk, so he said 'AOL then '
i should tell him about pipex

Can you ping any of the websites that don't work?  Please post the results and/or the error that it gives.  (To ping a site, go to Start > Run > Type "cmd" and press enter > Type "ping hotmail.com" or whatever)

Also, try accessing the site by the IP
http://64.4.33.7/ < That's for hotmail.

Check his hosts file? {WINDOWSDIR}\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

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Originally posted by brian
Can you ping any of the websites that don't work?  Please post the results and/or the error that it gives.  (To ping a site, go to Start > Run > Type "cmd" and press enter > Type "ping hotmail.com" or whatever)

Also, try accessing the site by the IP
http://64.4.33.7/ < That's for hotmail.

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Ill try that when i next go over there.. most likely to be monday next week

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Originally posted by -!Felu!-
Check his hosts file? {WINDOWSDIR}\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

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I don't understand this step.. is {WINDOWSDIR} C:\  ? And when i do get there, what do i look out for to check his hosts file?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/326155/en-us