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Weird

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

So the Wi-Fi at my hotel here in L.A. has a peculiar glitch. I can’t access any Google websites. I can get everything else. But no Google search, no Gmail, no Google News, no YouTube. Websites with Google ads (like my own) load, but the ads don’t.

Very strange.

MORE: The tech guy is baffled, too. So odd.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, November 15th, 2008 at 12:15 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Alcohol, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

16 Responses to “Weird”

  1. #1 |  Cynical In CA |  November 15th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    “I see your hair is burning, hills are filled with fire …”

    Welcome to fire season, Radley. Stay cool.

  2. #2 |  Ken Nelson |  November 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    Sure you aren’t in L.A., China?

  3. #3 |  thomasblair |  November 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    “Free wireless is brought to you by Yahoo.”

  4. #4 |  tim |  November 15th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Don’t you know? google is anti-american and right minded people and businesses are boycotting that evil company.

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65362

    Why do you hate America?

    /snark

    (wonder if the owner of that hotel supported Prop 8?)

  5. #5 |  tarran |  November 15th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    What is probably happening is that the hotel DNS server is sending bogus IP addresses to your laptop for google.

    Try using 4.2.2.2 as your DNS server. That should clear up the problem.

  6. #6 |  aland |  November 15th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    I see two options: a.)Bill Gates may own your hotel or b.) the Feds were busy going through your email while they thought your were en route. They’ll be done in a minute.

  7. #7 |  Balloon Maker |  November 15th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    this is sad, but i don’t know what i’d do without google

  8. #8 |  Rationalitate |  November 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Funny that you should mention this, because the other day, right before I went to bed, my computer wouldn’t load anything but Google pages!!

  9. #9 |  Jefferson |  November 15th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    That thing on Drudge the other day about Google tracking “flu” searches by region was a little creepy.

  10. #10 |  John H |  November 15th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    Try using this website: http://www.scroogle.org/

    It tunnels anonymously through Google, so it might work.

  11. #11 |  Andrew |  November 15th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    You’ve really gotta ask Reason to swing for one of those wireless 3G internet cards from AT&T or Verizon. You deserve it!

  12. #12 |  Frank N |  November 15th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    You didnt hear about Prop 8.5? Ban Google…

  13. #13 |  Matt Moore |  November 15th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    tarran – Good advice. 4.2.2.2, the favorite IP address of every network admin.

  14. #14 |  Michael Chaney |  November 15th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    You might have some sort of dns-hijacking virus or spyware. Are you on windows or mac?

  15. #15 |  Pete |  November 16th, 2008 at 1:42 am

    The same thing happened to me a few days ago. It came back after about an hour.

  16. #16 |  andyinsdca |  November 17th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    God is smiting you for your crimes. You know the ones. Oh, yes you do.

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