If that was true, why do sites browse okay... except the sites I can't log into (which also have some, but not all links that don't work). It's so inconsistent.SvenG wrote:This sounds like you have broken something on a very low level completely (maybe the network)...
I've been wrestling with this for some time now. I've also been having some trouble with my cable modem. Between March 2014 and April 2015 (13 months) I got 11 error log entries in the administrator panel of my cable modem. I think most (if not all) were when Time Warner was working on lines. In May 2015 (1 month) my cable modem recorded 32 errors. In June 2015 my cable modem recorded 67 errors. In July 2015 (so far) my cable modem has recorded 63 errors. The May & June errors were mostly QAM and QPSK framing errors interspersed with sets of 16 consecutive T3 timeouts -- EDIT: the error log entry "16 consecutive T3 timeouts" is a single error (not 16 errors) -- END EDIT. In contrast, the July errors have mostly been minor: Unicast Maintenance Ranging errors and Missing BP Configurations. The framing errors and T3 timeouts seemed to be weather related, and Time Warner seems to have fixed them (but without telling me of course, or admitting to me that they were the cause). BUT (and this is going to sound strange), I get the feeling (and it's just a feeling), that my July problems result from something in my computer (or something at the cable head-end) resetting my cable modem. But I have no way to test that and my cable modem is not recording it. HOWEVER, not recording it may be because of a (rumored) change in DOCSIS-3.
It seems pretty strange that I can log in when I'm in a web site's user config, but then when the end of the log-in process redirects me into the main web site, I'm not logged in. How could the redirection reset my cable modem? By what mechanism? Time Warner of course blames my cable modem. They want me to rent one of their cable modems.
You guys are smart and experienced. Does any of this ring any bells with you?
I think I'm going crazy.
PS: If any of you nice folks would like to relay a request from me to Microsoft -- I can't log in to Microsoft -- that they contact me, would you kindly PM me? - M.
PPS: It would be easy to blame cookies -- I log in okay, but cookies don't get set, so when I get to the main site, no cookie, no auth -- but when I look at my cookies for the sites I can't log into, there's all kinds of cookies with "auth" in their names. - M.