Unable to access certain websites?!

[kaisellgren]

Hello,

I have been recently very disappointed with Vista, because I am unable to access certain websites. Some samples sites:

GIGABYTE - Upgrade Your Life
www.godaddy.com

There's a ~ 25% chance that when I try to open eBay - New & used electronics, cars, apparel, collectibles, sporting goods & more at low prices it will not work either.

So what happens? I will get a timeout response. The host will not response to me. When I try to PING www.godaddy.com as administrator I get:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>PING www.godaddy.com

Pinging www.godaddy.com [208.109.132.201] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Reply from 208.109.132.201: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 208.109.132.201: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 208.109.132.201: TTL expired in transit.

Ping statistics for 208.109.132.201:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),

C:\Windows\system32>

Before I moved to use Vista, I did not have these issues with XP. Also the modem I use (Zyxel Prestige something) is used one two other computers and they can access those websites fine (they are running on XPs).

What could be the problem?

 

[johngalt]

Have you performed any sort of autotuning disabling on your machine, or else 'tweaked' the TCP/IP settings?

When I ping godaddy I get a TTL 112, so if you have set yours lower than that it is obviously going to time out.

FWIW, Vista doesn't do well with tweaked TCP/IP settings like XP does - it has an autotuning feature that dynamically changes the values for various settings n the TCP/IP stack as needed, thereby making the need for tweaked TCP/IP settings a thing of the past.