Page Load Error

And so the net stopped working.

This is bad as it is. On top of that it was a weekend. On top of that I still had about 400 MB to spare for this month, and today was the last day of the month*.On top of THAT I had just finished watching all 273 episodes of Naruto and Naruto Shippuden straight, within three weeks… and just when I thought I would do something different, I had no internet.

That was just unacceptable.

So, this is what I did:

1. I checked the green LEDs on my modem. All four were bright green and shining merrily.
2. I checked the connections between my modem, CPU and the switch box. Check.
3. I pinged google.com. It said

Ping request couldn’t find host google.com. Please check the name and try again.

4. I pinged my DNS server. That worked. It said:

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms ttl="64

Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms ttl="64

Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms ttl="64

Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms ttl="64

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms.

But it solved nothing. I still had connectivity. The wisdom of the world was denied to me still.

5. I disabled and enabled the Local Area Connection; to see if that would help in anyway. Nope.
6. I changed the Network Connection settings in Mozilla. From “No proxy” to “Auto-Detect Proxy Settings for this network”. And back again. It only said:

   Page Load Error. Connection Interrupted. The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again.

7. I launched Internet Explorer to see if that would help in any way. It said happily: This page cannot be displayed. And blah .. blah…
8. I installed Opera. The installation file had been dormant in my Software folder forever. Crossed my fingers and tried again. Negative still. : (
   
9. I started disabling firewalls. I disabled Windows Firewall, Stopped On- Access Protection in Avast Antivirus, Deactivated Avira Antivirus, Disabled Symantec and tried out points 5 – 7 again. I was still bang right in the middle of square one.
10. I called up three people in BSNL. Over their excuses about this being a Sunday, and something about no statistics collected from the server on weekends, I told them I had to solve this today and got a helpline – 23492198 –called that and got a docket number under Option 5 – ‘Problems in BSNL broadband’. I still haven’t heard from anyone there.
11. Somewhere along this I also discovered that https sites worked sometimes. But that was a short lived joy. Thanks to the heavy rains, the four green lights stopped shining. Though three of them came back - for a long time, the third LED on the modem, Internet, wasn’t even lit.
12. I retraced all the steps I had taken to port-forward on my computer. I removed all entries from the TCP/IP properties tab. Changed entries in my DSL Router. I re-tried points 5 – 8. Every single one. In different permutations. Got tired of the bayish color of Mozilla when it repeatedly mocked my attempts by coming up with different error messages of Page Load Errors.

So, I gave up then.

Shut down the computer.

Restarted it.

And thus this post.

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* [BSNL 500C Internet Connection, 1.5 GB download limit, 175 free calls, Night 2 – 8pm Free].