https issue

[§ñühwø£f]

I havent been able to login to webmail for hotmail or aol since making the switch to DSL from dialup. The BeOS worked fine before running firefox.
Any ideas?

TIA

[Auric__]

What browsers have you tried? On this machine, I can't use Hotmail from MSIE,
but can from Opera 9.

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[Andreas Kohlbach]

§ñühwø£f wrote on 26. September 2008:
>
> I havent been able to login to webmail for hotmail or aol since making the switch to DSL from dialup. The BeOS worked fine before running firefox.
> Any ideas?

It could be that BeOS default MTU is 1500 and some clueless ISPs block
ICMP requests and thus the connection hangs.

See if you can set the MTU (I don't know how but I guess there is a
config file for DSL where you can tell it so) to 1492 or if that not
works to 1442. You need to start a new connection after you did the
changes.
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[§ñühwø£f]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:56:28 +0000 (UTC)
"Auric__" <not.m...@email.address> broke the internets with:

> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:20:21 GMT, §ñühwø£f wrote:
>
> > I havent been able to login to webmail for hotmail or aol since making
> > the switch to DSL from dialup. The BeOS worked fine before running
> > firefox. Any ideas?
>
> What browsers have you tried? On this machine, I can't use Hotmail from MSIE,
> but can from Opera 9.
>

Firefox with user agent switcher. Spoofed it as Opera 9 on dialup and it worked in hotmail. But now using a dsl broadband connection it times out.
I think its the Net Server itself that dosent play nice with the ISP' router/modem.

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[§ñühwø£f]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:48:04 -0400
Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> broke the internets with:

> §ñühwø£f wrote on 26. September 2008:
> >
> > I havent been able to login to webmail for hotmail or aol since making the switch to DSL from dialup. The BeOS worked fine before running firefox.
> > Any ideas?
>
> It could be that BeOS default MTU is 1500 and some clueless ISPs block
> ICMP requests and thus the connection hangs.
>
> See if you can set the MTU (I don't know how but I guess there is a
> config file for DSL where you can tell it so) to 1492 or if that not
> works to 1442. You need to start a new connection after you did the
> changes.

I read up on the comments section at bebits where that is the issue. I downloaded a couple of patches to try as well.
Thanks :)

[Andreas Kohlbach]

That's not a patch issue. You just need to open the appropriate file
(somewhere under /etc/ppp, at least what I recall it was similar to where
Linux has the file) named "options" or something, search for the MTU
entry and change (may be also remove a "#" if there is one at the
beginning of the line) the setting. That's all. You have to go online
again after that.

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[§ñühwØ£f]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:15:40 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach aided th' terraists
with the following claims :

> §ñühwø£f wrote on 27. September 2008:
>>
>> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:48:04 -0400
>> Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> broke the internets with:
>>
>>> §ñühwø£f wrote on 26. September 2008:
>>> >
>>> > I havent been able to login to webmail for hotmail or aol since making the switch to DSL from dialup. The BeOS worked fine before running firefox.
>>> > Any ideas?
>>>
>>> It could be that BeOS default MTU is 1500 and some clueless ISPs block
>>> ICMP requests and thus the connection hangs.
>>>
>>> See if you can set the MTU (I don't know how but I guess there is a
>>> config file for DSL where you can tell it so) to 1492 or if that not
>>> works to 1442. You need to start a new connection after you did the
>>> changes.
>>
>> I read up on the comments section at bebits where that is the issue. I downloaded a couple of patches to try as well.
>> Thanks :)
>
> That's not a patch issue. You just need to open the appropriate file
> (somewhere under /etc/ppp, at least what I recall it was similar to where
> Linux has the file) named "options" or something, search for the MTU
> entry and change (may be also remove a "#" if there is one at the
> beginning of the line) the setting. That's all. You have to go online
> again after that.

I replaced the net server with the patched version located on the Menlo
Park website and it works *perfectly*

Thanks to all who helped!
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[Michael A. Clem]

Thank you! I just switched over to dsl and had the problem with https:
sites. I remembered this thread and got the "patch", and it worked for
me, too.