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I think Bongo is best qualified to answer this query, being a fully qualified interweb wotsit type, but anyone with a semi-educated theory is welcome to repond.

Last night at about 0110 I lost my connection to the web,, This is unual in itself as I rarely suffer disconnections. I was unable to connect to the forum or any other webpage using firefox or IE. BUT I was able to continue playing poker and use all the functions of the pokerroom. At about 0300 I finished playing poker and rebooted, I was now unable to access either webpages or the poker sites.

In the past when I have suffered an outage I just lose the whole shebang, curse NTL and wait for it to be fixed. This was obviously something different and I'm curious as to what might have happened.

I understand that technically pokersites are not webpages, are you directed through a webpage when you open one? Is the internet different from the worldwideweb? Is it possible to be connected to the internet and not the web?

Ta muchly

I thought it was going to be "How do you do 'that' with your hair?" ;)

And I thought it was gonna be ..."How does Colchester Kev like his cup of tea in the mornings ?" :D :D

I'm sure someone will answer this in more detail, but a disconnection is not always down to the poker room - in fact often it isn't at all.

Sometimes it is your ISP that has a problem, sometimes it's a connection problem somewhere between you, your ISP and the ISP and server of the poker room.  PokerStars has a trace connection facility and this will often show you where the problem is.

You'll also suffer from 'disconnection' problems if your computer is pushed to its limits, either in terms of memory or processor.  For example, if you run a graphics package such as Photoshop, it can use up all the memory on your computer, causing the poker software to hang.  The same if you are running video or something else that requires a lot of your computer's resources.

Because there are so many reasons that your connection can drop with the poker room, it's difficult to say what each one is down to unless you are there at the time.  Often I'll be on Blonde and PokerStars and one of them will hang, whereas the other one will be fine.  When both of them hang, I know that it's a problem with my computer or with the connection at my end.

I too am on ntl, and although I'm paying more than others the connection is very stable and only twice have I ever had problems with the connection that was ntl's fault (as in beyond my control and therefore my own fault).

You can have an Internet connection, but be unable to get data through certain ports (similar to TV channels I guess).  Not sure what ports the poker rooms use, but your web browser generally uses port 80.  So it could also be the case that you can access the web, but not your poker room, or vice versa.

Now someone who knows what they're talking about might answer your question... ;ashamed;

Wrote that over 5 minutes ago...but as if by magic, my connection went down here.  Crappy serviced offices... ;grr;

I didn't lose my connection to the pokerroom, it was the rest of the internet that I lost connection to...

It sounds to me like a DNS issue to me.

Every computer connected to the net has a unique IP address and DNS is used to map domains to an IP address.

So when you want to look at www.blondepoker.com your computer will first ask your DNS server (or rather your ISP's) for the IP address of blondepoker before going and connecting to that.

Now if that goes down (and it used to a lot with NTL) even though you are connected to the web you will be unable to see any webpages.

You were able to keep playing poker as the software will have looked up the DNS when it loaded up and then maintained a connection to the IP address. When you rebooted this was obviously lost and so you couldn't get back on there.

same thing happened to me recently

Thanks Bongo!

Almost certainly a router problem, if you have one :D
Let it cool down and try again, dont put it on a carpetted floor.

No router, just a long cable...

if not do what every normal person does ,smash it up.