What causes a frequently visited (weekly) URL in my favorites list to 'suddenly' become unaccessable - eg comes with that 'Page Cannot Be Displayed' white screen really quickly. Even when I hit refresh!?!? it still refuses!
Last time this happened (after a few months of visiting the site on a weekly basis) I found away around the problem - I physically typed the URL in by hand instead of clicking on it in my favorites list and it worked!? work that out!??!
This time that remedy isn't working - I thought maybe the server's is actually down this time, but it works ok on a different computer.
Is my computer telling me that it's sick of visiting the same site every week? :lol:

Hope someone can explain why this phenomunum is occuring

Thanks

Have you tried to ping the site to see if it is available? Just open a command propmt (click on the "Start" button, go to "Run" and then type "command") and ping the server. For example, "ping www.yahoo.com" will yield:

Pinging www.yahoo.akadns.net [66.218.71.80] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.218.71.80: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=53
Reply from 66.218.71.80: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=53
Reply from 66.218.71.80: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=53
Reply from 66.218.71.80: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 66.218.71.80:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 50ms, Maximum = 53ms, Average = 51ms

If it comes up saying that there is "0% loss" then the issue is on your end. Let me know.

Hi Shakey, just tried to ping the site then and it came back 'unknown host' - see if you can access this:

http://www.eighties-mp3.co.uk/download.htm

(I typed: ping www.eighties-mp3.co.uk

is that right?

Nope. I cannot access or ping the site. Maybe they just have it down for maintenance or something. Give it a couple of days and try it again. Sorry, man.

Retro,

by checking the site with NeoTrace, I got the error message "Host or domain name could not be resolved" - seems that this site is not only temporarily down but had to be removed from the server.

Oh :cry: I love that site! oh well, thank for your tracking help guys!