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lottathought's avatar
Mar 14, 2015
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Router randomly blocking websites

This is one of the stranger things that I have ever seen. My router is connected to the internet...and I can get to the internet...at least some of it. It is blocking certain websites however. ...
  • Babylon5's avatar
    Mar 22, 2015
    lottathought wrote:
    I did try your suggestion Searay..in fact I tried several combinations....nothing.
    The most imortant part of the MAC address change process is that you power cycle the modem (the router also if you want, but particularly the modem). If you don't do this the MAC address change at the router will simply kill your Internet connection. More often than not this fixes the issue of unreachable websites, which more often than not is nothing to do with the router (whatever the brand).