Safari can't load Apple.com, but Chrome can

Bee,

My ISP is Bharti Broadband in India.

here are my old router details:

Its about 3-3.5 years old and this is what the back panel reads: Features 4 Eth + 1 WiFi 802.11g

I was the only person using the router wirelessly (WEP).

Gary --

We're confused . . .

1. Why is it that you don't know your ISP?

2. Are you all operating off of one ISP account? How many accounts are there? Routers have a limit.

3. Is it true that you did not have these problems before you moved into this place?

4. When you moved, did you change all of your network settings for the new network?

5. You should check proxies: Sys Prefs > Network > Advanced >Proxies. Anything checked?

6. Mac Pro doesn't work wired or wirelessly, in reg account or new user.

7. MPB works great wired, slow wirelessly.

I would look carefully into the settings, OS, version of Safari, etc. for the MBP(works), vs. the MP(doesn't work). What's different?

If you equipment worked great before you moved, I would cast a jaundiced eye at the modem and router there.

Yes. Uncheck Proxy.

Report back.

I never saw any of this at my old place, or anywhere else in my 12 years of Mac use.

It's the set up there.

Either old settings not for the new network, or the hardware at your new place.

You're welcome. This is driving us both crazy, LOL.

Keeping our fingers crossed here.

Some apps will check a proxie. Earthlink used to, I think DropBox does. Sometimes it seems an update will do it, as well. No proxies is the default state.

Spontaneous restarting would seem to be separate. I can hardly wait to hear about it!

😉

Footprint is an outdated flaky internet caching service from 1999 still used by some ISPs:http://articles.latimes.com/1999/feb/23/local/me-10922

(Thanks due to Etresoft for finding this.)

Let me recap my situation. I was using a >3 yr old modem+wireless router which I suspected was responsible for my page load time-outs. So I replaced it with a new modem (wired) .. on which everything works fine.

The Network settings on my Macbook when I connected both the routers was the same.. I mean.. no checked proxies.

However whenever I connect my old modem/router and try to connect to the internet both wired and wirelessly, I'm still facing the Request Timeouts. This time the pageload problem showed up on fewer websites than last time. But as Gary said, the problem somehow seems to "spread" with time. It may be true .. may be not. But Weather.com was giving me problems last time around.. and this time when I connected my old router, weather.com loaded just fine. It did NOT give me the "Footprint has terminated the request" message. May be if I used the router for a longer period it would "spread" to other sites... I don't know. This particular apple.com thread however showed the same Request Timeout message again. It even throws a random Reference number at me:

The server timed out while waiting for the browser's request.

Reference #2.8beb37a.1309884418.0

So, I'm not going to use my old router again.. but I wish someone can figure out what went wrong all of a sudden.

Nilima, it can be very confusing to try and solve different users' problems in the same thread.

Please start your own thread so that we can give your problems the attention they deserve! 🙂

Klaus1,

Gary and I are facing the same issue (other than the spontaneous system restart). I had posted the details in a previous post as well. Thanks!

nilima --

That's very interesting, and thanks for posting your results.

So, in your case, it's something in your old router. Sounds like some kind of malware got on there.

Do you have a good strong password on your router? And do stay away from questionable sites, eh?

It is something for other readers here to consider checking into.

Thanks.