Note: Use Google cached result, if needed, to read this blog....Are you an Xplornet customer having trouble accessing Xplornetsucks.com ? Some Xplornet users can not get to the site.
EDIT::April13. Some users that were blocked, can now get to Xplornetsucks.com once again.The access was not instant, but like a system glitch, that started to restore access, that came and went and then full access again. Hopefully the site will always stay accessible. The right of "Freedom of Communication" and all that goes with it......Unless this is just a fluke.......Edit::April 15..Still some issues getting to Xplornetsucks.com.......Edit:::April 20. Seems satellite users able to get to the forums again. Please be patient with the 'Server Busy' message.It has to do with the way the site is hosted(A shared server with some other sites. And one site is taking up the majority of server time ,as of late, so the Forum database can not be properly accessed). Just click 'refresh' in your browser, sometimes, to advance from 'server busy' message. Or try later evening or in the early morning. Hopefully the Xplornetsucks.com Admin there can get the issue resolved soon....EDIT::April 24 , site settings adjusted so easier access..
EDIT:::April 26, still some Xplornet/Telesat glitches to get to Xplornetsucks.com .
Update:::With some initial correspondence I have received, It appears that the Prairie Provinces are the ones having trouble getting to Xplornetsucks.com..And the block is tied into the Xplornet users account Or the NOC(satellite ground station). A computer from a Xplornet connection can be taken to another ISP's connection and can connect with Xplornetsucks.com . Call support and get to the level 3, with a 3 way call with Telesat, to see what settings are on your account. Hopefully you will not be forced to waste a 1/2 hour of time rebooting to get there.
Xplornet * support@xplornet.com
Phone* 1-866-841-6001
Fax* 1-866-485-4156
If you can not get to the Xplornetsucks.com/forums site , Please email to
EDIT:::Email address now finished. You have your freedom of communication back. But will return if needed............\0/............
(This is a temporary email, as this site has no email account.)
Have been seeing some various internet posts, about 'some' people not being able to access the site there. While many others can access the site.
It will be a help to figure out whats going on... Also.... Due to current 'glitches' with the new Xplornet email service, You may not be able to send to a Yahoo account from an Xplornet account. So send from another domains email account instead, if needed and complain to Xplornet that you may be losing or missing emails because of it......
A simple email of "On Satellite" or "On Wireless" , And not able to access the site,,, will be OK. As well as for how many months you have tried to get access to the site there. And also a rough location of Prairies, Maritimes, or BC. . .. . .(Won't reply to email, unless needed. But will be a gauge of how many users can not get to the Xplornetsucks.com site).
An Alternate DNS server is opendns.com .Edit::: The DNS change does not seem to affect access. But even with the usual IP refresh/change, the user still can not access xplornetsucks.com . It appears, at the moment, to mainly affect satellite users from 'up to' 3 months..
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
EDIT::: Try this link to the forums. http://tinyurl.com/69g3q4EDIT:::Message from Xplornet satellite users using this link.. "Error: Unable to find site's URL to redirect to." . . .
Or how about the Google back door. Use the 'Cached" link. These pages will be older.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=xplornetsucks.com%2Fforums&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images
Or how about Google.ca
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=xplornetsucks.com&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images
Also try tips from this link to see if possible problems are on your computer or browser. From the Firefox help forums. As Xplornet blames everything on the user, as per the user contract.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_websites
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British Columbia Civil Liberties Association..
http://bccla.org/
They may be able to help you, even if you live outside of BC.. Since Xplornet Satellite users report that they have no problems getting to any other site, that they want to go to.
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This clip from an article From a while back, to do with Telus blocking the website of striking workers.
http://www.opennetinitiative.net/bulletins/010/ONI-010-telus.pdf
EDIT::: New Link
http://opennet.net/bulletins/010
This poses questions as to whether the Canadian
Telecommunications Act has been followed to the letter. Section 36
of the Act states that, without the approval of the Canadian Radio-
Television and Telecommunications Commission, a "Canadian carrier
shall not control the content or influence the meaning or purpose of
telecommunications carried by it for the public," and Section 27(2) of
the Act prohibits a Canadian character, in providing a
telecommunications service, from "unjustly discriminat[ing] or
giv[ing] an undue or unreasonable preference toward any person,
including itself, or subject[ing] any person to an undue or
unreasonable disadvantage
Heres another forum for you to post on(unless it gets blocked too).
The Mods there do keep things controlled. So no off the wall posting. Just post your Xplornet experiences, as per usual. This thread goes from the start of Xplornet to the present. Starting from about May 2005.
http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?s=28f6875f1b0f1c3612d60bf859a55d99&t=47143
There is also this link below, for the United States side of the Anik F2 satellite that you connect to(Wildblue). Some differences are..A monthly FAP. A oddly performing Proxy that lets you read 'cached' pages instead of the real page. Free Google mail, for the price of paid for mail. But the same capacity issues, meaning slow speeds.
http://wildblue.cc/wbforums/index.php
Xplornet forums page at Testmy.net
http://www.testmy.net/b-109
DSL Reports.com
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cover,2584
