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Been having trouble connecting, even "Down For Everyone or just Me?" showed [H] down earlier......
 
topcat989 said:
Been having trouble connecting, even "Down For Everyone or just Me?" showed [H] down earlier......
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Yeah, I haven't been able to connect from my cell (t-mobile), but on wifi (cox) it's fine. I sent kyle an email earlier. Cleared cookies, rebooted phone.

Edit: hold a sec, will check if it's still down.
 
Yeah, hangs for about 30 seconds, then:
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Please try to visit HF in private or incognito mode, so we can see the exact error.
 
Under details it simply says "check internet connection," but I know it's good -- other sites work fine. Screenshot shows all black for some reason, maybe because incognito? 🤷‍♂️

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I can run (a form of) traceroute on the phone, what's a good IP?
 
nvm, looks like that tool runs tracerout via a remote server
 
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We are using Cloudflare as a firewall and CDN, but with your screenshot it seems your ISP isn't able to reach Cloudflare servers and just times out.
I can say the issue is between your ISP and Cloudflare.

Cloudflare hasn't indicated any issues on their side: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Can you visit other websites that are also using Cloudflare?
Like:
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No, looks like those all fail (except cloudflarestatus)
 
Yeah, I even tried setting cloudflare as the private dns server on my phone -- works on wifi, can't connect to dns on mobile. Somebody screwed up dns on the east coast, I guess, at least for cloudflare, on some trunks.
 
Yeah I'm having intermittent timeout issues on other websites as well, so looks like issue's on my end, not [H]'s
 
This is what I'm dealing with right now. This is after switching WiFi spots (admittedly they are right next to each other, so it might be same service provider for both...)

and same (slow) speeds bypassing the VPN

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I spent 2-3 hrs with a t-mobile chatbot exhausting every 1% possibility that it could be something on my phone. Then I said, "look, I was already pretty sure, now I'm almost certain it's not my phone. Please just tell a network engineer the stuff I said from the beginning, I'm sure it'll be fixed within hours." (Paraphrasing)

The response was "[Boilerplate we have to do this response], but thank you for being so thorough, we agree with you, and will escalate this to a network engineer, including all the info you have provided so far." (Paraphrasing again)

Thank the Lord! So hopefully it'll be fixed tomorrow, for both of us.
 
Here's the whole train wreck, for anyone who wants to torture themselves. Think I put them in order...
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Seems to be working now for me, and much faster too. Must've had a node die or something.
 
Not working again for me. Tethered my phone to PC and got a real traceroute (traceroute -T -N 1 hardforum.com) ipv4 & ipv6.

Talked to someone at t-mobile again (before getting trace), and they said it doesn't look like it's on their end, but they have gotten multiple reports. Try contacting cloudflare. So I'll do that next and see what they say.
 
Guys over at cloudflare basically confirmed it's probably something on t-mobile's end, or between them and cloudflare. Fast-forward a week or two, and I switched to cox's cell service. $5 less, and cloudflare servers are reachable. Amazing!
 
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