Can't access some websites on wifi; new Asus Aspire + win10 upgrade

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  1. Posts : 10
    Windows 10
       #1

    Can't access some websites on wifi; new Asus Aspire + win10 upgrade


    Hi there,

    I recently purchased an Asus Aspire (model number E5-573G-75B3). It came loaded with Windows 8.1 but as soon as I ran through initial setup it gave me the option to upgrade to Windows 10, which I gratefully took. (I'd been avoiding Win 8.) Once the upgrade was done, I cleaned up the system, removing a couple pre-installed junkware programs (i.e. Pokki, etc.), then installed Firefox. So far so good.

    But when I tried recently to reach a few websites, I started running into trouble. I consistently get time-out errors on sites such as Outlook.com (also on the alias mail.live.com) and, even more frustrating, on Evernote.com. Other websites, like gmail, work just fine.

    The problem occurs regardless of whether I use the Edge browser or Firefox. My wife, using an older computer running Vista has no trouble at all reaching those sites. I also discovered that if I plug directly into the wifi modem via ethernet cable the sites come up with no problem: it only occurs when I'm using the wifi.

    Things I have tried, so far to no effect:

    • Updating the wireless driver. (I have a Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377.) The system says I already have the latest driver.
    • Pinging the affected sites. Response is 4 packets sent, 4 packets received, 0% loss. Not sure why the ping goes through just fine when the site won't load.
    • Installed and ran Spybot Search & Destroy. It found a few cookies laying around, but removing those did nothing.
    • Turning off the Firewall. It came pre-installed with McAffee antivirus, which includes a firewall that appears to supercede the Windows Firewall. Disabling the McAffee firewall had no effect. I couldn't find any settings within McAffee that might allow me to explicitly whitelist any sites. I haven't yet tried uninstalling McAffee, figuring I may as well take advantage of the free period.


    Scouring the web I've seen others have had similar problems in other versions of Windows, but so far nothing I've learned has helped.

    Any advice?
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  2. Posts : 99
    Windows 8.1
       #2

    swatkinsjr said:
    Hi there,

    I recently purchased an Asus Aspire (model number E5-573G-75B3). It came loaded with Windows 8.1 but as soon as I ran through initial setup it gave me the option to upgrade to Windows 10, which I gratefully took. (I'd been avoiding Win 8.) Once the upgrade was done, I cleaned up the system, removing a couple pre-installed junkware programs (i.e. Pokki, etc.), then installed Firefox. So far so good.

    But when I tried recently to reach a few websites, I started running into trouble. I consistently get time-out errors on sites such as Outlook.com (also on the alias mail.live.com) and, even more frustrating, on Evernote.com. Other websites, like gmail, work just fine.

    The problem occurs regardless of whether I use the Edge browser or Firefox. My wife, using an older computer running Vista has no trouble at all reaching those sites. I also discovered that if I plug directly into the wifi modem via ethernet cable the sites come up with no problem: it only occurs when I'm using the wifi.

    Things I have tried, so far to no effect:

    • Updating the wireless driver. (I have a Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377.) The system says I already have the latest driver.
    • Pinging the affected sites. Response is 4 packets sent, 4 packets received, 0% loss. Not sure why the ping goes through just fine when the site won't load.
    • Installed and ran Spybot Search & Destroy. It found a few cookies laying around, but removing those did nothing.
    • Turning off the Firewall. It came pre-installed with McAffee antivirus, which includes a firewall that appears to supercede the Windows Firewall. Disabling the McAffee firewall had no effect. I couldn't find any settings within McAffee that might allow me to explicitly whitelist any sites. I haven't yet tried uninstalling McAffee, figuring I may as well take advantage of the free period.


    Scouring the web I've seen others have had similar problems in other versions of Windows, but so far nothing I've learned has helped.

    Any advice?
    Can you do a tracert to the sites that don't load?
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  3. Posts : 10
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Here's the result from the tracert on Evernote.com:

    Tracing route to evernote.com [204.154.94.73]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:

    1 5 ms 3 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1
    2 11 ms 12 ms 20 ms 96.120.4.133
    3 71 ms 14 ms 11 ms 68.85.32.229
    4 15 ms 11 ms 11 ms xe-6-0-7-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net [68.85.111.153]
    5 * 14 ms 11 ms lag-5.ear2.b0atlanta2.Level3.net [4.68.71.45]
    6 * * * Request timed out.
    7 * * * Request timed out.
    8 84 ms 80 ms 80 ms EVERNOTE-CO.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net [4.53.209.46]
    9 80 ms 81 ms 79 ms evernote.com [204.154.94.73]

    Trace complete.


    I notice that steps 6 and 7 indicate a request timeout, but that's after it's already passed through the local ISP, I think...


    Also, here's outlook.com:

    Tracing route to dispatch.kahuna.glbdns2.microsoft.com [65.55.183.176]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:

    1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1
    2 11 ms 10 ms 14 ms 96.120.4.133
    3 13 ms 11 ms 12 ms 68.85.32.229
    4 13 ms 11 ms 20 ms xe-6-0-6-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net [68.85.232.117]
    5 15 ms 14 ms 21 ms he-0-4-0-2-cr02.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.91.253]
    6 32 ms 14 ms 11 ms he-0-10-0-0-pe04.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.83.178]
    7 12 ms 53 ms 12 ms 66.208.216.130
    8 14 ms 12 ms 13 ms 191.234.85.16
    9 28 ms 29 ms 34 ms 104.44.8.100
    10 30 ms 40 ms 28 ms be-3-0.ibr01.bn1.network.microsoft.com [104.44.4.49]
    11 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms be-1-0.ibr02.bn1.network.microsoft.com [104.44.4.63]
    12 29 ms 32 ms 29 ms be-3-0.ibr02.was05.network.microsoft.com [104.44.4.26]
    13 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms 104.44.8.173
    14 * * * Request timed out.
    15 * * * Request timed out.
    16 * * * Request timed out.
    17 * * * Request timed out.
    18 29 ms 26 ms 26 ms origin.bl172w.blu172.mail.live.com [65.55.183.176]

    Trace complete.
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  4. Posts : 1,579
    Windows 10 Pro
       #4

    swatkinsjr said:
    Here's the result from the tracert on Evernote.com:

    Tracing route to evernote.com [204.154.94.73]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:

    1 5 ms 3 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1
    2 11 ms 12 ms 20 ms 96.120.4.133
    3 71 ms 14 ms 11 ms 68.85.32.229
    4 15 ms 11 ms 11 ms xe-6-0-7-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net [68.85.111.153]
    5 * 14 ms 11 ms lag-5.ear2.b0atlanta2.Level3.net [4.68.71.45]
    6 * * * Request timed out.
    7 * * * Request timed out.
    8 84 ms 80 ms 80 ms EVERNOTE-CO.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net [4.53.209.46]
    <SNIP>
    Can your wife's machine also still reach these sites at this time? Did you see Brink's post about Level3 outages currently ongoing? I don't know about 10 hours ago when you made your OP, but right now the tracert may not be a good diagnostic?
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  5. Posts : 10
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Word Man said:
    Can your wife's machine also still reach these sites at this time? Did you see Brink's post about Level3 outages currently ongoing? I don't know about 10 hours ago when you made your OP, but right now the tracert may not be a good diagnostic?
    Yes, my wife's computer still reaches the sites just fine.

    As a point of comparison, here's the tracert to evernote.com from her machine:

    Tracing route to evernote.com [204.154.94.73]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:

    1 24 ms 174 ms 51 ms 192.168.0.1
    2 237 ms 47 ms 112 ms 96.120.4.133
    3 44 ms 31 ms 43 ms 68.85.32.229
    4 126 ms 33 ms 48 ms xe-6-0-7-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net
    [68.85.111.153]
    5 * * 97 ms lag-5.ear2.b0atlanta2.Level3.net [4.68.71.45]
    6 * * * Request timed out.
    7 * * * Request timed out.
    8 221 ms 79 ms 81 ms EVERNOTE-CO.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net [4.53.209.
    46]
    9 80 ms 84 ms 83 ms evernote.com [204.154.94.73]

    Trace complete.
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  6. Posts : 99
    Windows 8.1
       #6

    Nothing out of the ordinary in your traces. Let's reset your winsock as that's help for some in a similar situation in other OSes. Right click on your Start button, select Command Prompt (admin) and type "netsh winsock reset" (without quotes). Then try the sites again.
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  7. Posts : 10
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #7

    sciencegeek said:
    Nothing out of the ordinary in your traces. Let's reset your winsock as that's help for some in a similar situation in other OSes. Right click on your Start button, select Command Prompt (admin) and type "netsh winsock reset" (without quotes). Then try the sites again.
    Ran the winsock reset, then restarted my computer. Still getting timeout errors on these sites. (Also, thanks for the tip on right-clicking start to get the command prompt. I'd been using the search/Cortana feature to get around scrolling through the list of all apps to find it, but even that felt awkward to use.)
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  8. Posts : 99
    Windows 8.1
       #8

    Does your McAfee include netguard?

    McAfee Help

    It's supposed to guard against risky sites but what could be risky about outlook.com and evernote.com. Let's disable it and try the sites.
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  9. Posts : 1,264
    Windows 10 (19045.3154)
       #9

    You could also try switching your DNS to Open dns or google dns.
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  10. Posts : 10
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #10

    Thanks for the idea, Sciencegeek. I'd grown suspicious of McAfee. I'll try that this evening when I'm back in front of my home machine.

    Brummyfan... sounds like that's worth a try, but I'm afraid that's an area that's pretty unfamiliar to me. How does one go about switching DNS?
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