Cannot access certain websites or game servers.

Hello, Recently my computer ran into a problem, couple of days ago, I could play or view websites just fine, just that day when I came back from outside I launched my game (The secret world) and the launcher got stuck at Downloading patch information.. (which was actually trying to connect to the server for patching) It was just stuck at there, so, I tried opening the game's website for support, but surprise, I can't either.. this is the error Google Chrome shows me ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT. So I can't play nor see the website BUT, when I use a proxy in chrome, I can see the website just fine, and no, im not banned from the game..

This is what I've tried so far..

Flushing DNS
Cleaning dns cache
Resetting router / modem settings to factory
Rebooting several times
And I even restored my whole PC to fabric state (Yup, I formatted and all)
the issue is still there... this is frustrating, please any help would be awesome..

Have you tried changing DNS?

Windows-8-Configuration

Hello, thank you for answering, and thanks for the guide, I tried it but no success.. any other ideas?

Edit: I must as well say that im running Windows 8 though.

What do you get from running this in Powershell? Change the website to one that you can't access of course.

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://www.eightforffums.com/" | Select-Object StatusCode

You should either get an error or a status code which can be checked here HTTP Status Codes (Windows)

adamf said:

What do you get from running this in Powershell? Change the website to one that you can't access of course.

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://www.eightforffums.com/" | Select-Object StatusCode

You should either get an error or a status code which can be checked here HTTP Status Codes (Windows)

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Try, if you can ping 37.18.192.114 that is the IP, that the webpage uses, at least on my end.

How Do I? ping or do a trace route with Windows 8

Also try to use Traceroute, to see, where is gets blocked, if at all, since it uses a different IP.

sykeecx said:

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You need to use a double quote around the website address not two single quotes. Try copying these 3 into powershell (TairikuOkami tests added also)

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://www.thesecretworld.com/" | Select-Object StatusCode
ping www.thesecretworld.com
tracert //www.thesecretworld.com

You should get results like this if it is working...