Forum:I cannot access any Wikia wiki from my personal computer

For the past couple of months, I have not been able to load Wikia pages from my personal computer. Any other computer can connect to Wikia using the same connection, so I know it has something to do with this specific computer and not my LAN or WAN connections. So far, I have tried:


 * Flushing the DNS with ipconfig /flushdns.
 * Checking the hosts file.
 * Pinging the wiki I am trying to connect to (the ping always succeeds, no packet loss).
 * Trying to load the wiki across multiple browsers and clearing the cache, site data, etc. from each browser, to no effect.
 * Disabling my firewall.

I am at the end of my rope and can think of nothing more to fix this problem. I miss editing my wikis, and it feels almost like being banned. All help appreciated. –PatPeter 09:56, November 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * Special:Contact/bug might be your best bet.— 10:02, November 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Since this seems to be an issue on his end, I doubt S:C would help. What OS are you on? 1358  (Talk)  10:06, November 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but they can help in troubleshooting.—


 * Perhaps something you installed is filtering web accesses, or something upstream is. Try using a proxy server (or web proxy site) -- 65.92.181.190 11:50, November 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm aware that it is a problem with my personal computer, and no, I do not want to use a proxy. I just want to be able to go back to editing normally. For instance, do you know of any problems that would be filtering web access? Also, I'm on Windows 7. –PatPeter 10:02, November 17, 2012 (UTC)


 * Did you try using a proxy server? Can you access Wikia through a proxy server? It's hard to diagnose something if you didn't try the workaround to see if that pathway contains a problem or not. Try it through a web proxy, and a regular proxy. The webproxy is a website that you type a URL into to see a webpage. A regular proxy is set up through your browser proxy settings or OS proxy settings. If the web proxy works, but the regular proxy doesn't work, it's something on your system itself, since upstream to your system, it'll look like access to the proxy site (be sure to try other websites through the proxies as well if Wikia doesn't work, to see if the proxy is being filtered out as well.) It might also be good to try http-ping, but since you tried multiple browsers, it seems like the filter is on http protocol, since regular ping is working. -- 70.24.250.26 12:59, November 17, 2012 (UTC)