Website issue with WiFi network

[birding]

Has anyone else had an issue with the forum or website not loading? This occurs only with ERE when I’m on my home WiFi network on all devices. On my phone when I go to cell data, there’s no issue. Thoughts?

[delay]

Sounds like a problem with your home network. What happens if you test wired, for example with an ethernet cable to your modem? What happens if you unplug and then replug your Wi-Fi router? Same for your modem? (Wi-Fi can be provided by your modem, in which case there's only one device to reset.)

[birding]

Thanks @delay. I'll try those different tests.

Pretty soon after I posted earlier, the ERE sites stopped working on cell data as well. Only the ERE sites. It still isn't working - I had to go somewhere else to write this.

ETA - I've tried 4 different mobile browsers and none work. Previously on WiFi, the site will not load immediately. Off WiFi, the site thinks for a long time before timing out. I'm editing the Post title, as the problem isn't isolated to WiFi. Though it does seem to be isolated to just me rn - operator error frustration.

[loutfard]

Have you tried bisecting the problem by starting from a non-authenticated clean session on a different client device on a different network, then working backwards towards your current non-working solution?

[delay]

Agree with Loutfard, that's good advice. Part of being "non-authenticated" is easy to try in a private tab in your browser.

Pretty soon after I posted earlier, the ERE sites stopped working on cell data as well.

Are your cell plan and your home connection from the same provider?

You could try a VPN (there's free ones here). Or TOR (an anonymizer service) which is also built into the Brave browser.

You can look at the network tab in your browser's dev tools. This provides more technical details at which point it goes wrong. The output from curl, like "curl -v https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com", is also useful.

[birding]

@loutfard & @delay Thanks! It's working again on my mobile network as of this morning and I dunno what fixed that. Private tab didn't make a difference with WiFi. Looking into the modem/router at home it's ancient so that could be the issue. I'll keep digging.