I've been with my Moto Droid (1st version, A853) for 2 years now. I have full internet access with it (regardless of browser app) in 3G, EVDO, and WiFi. At least I always thought I had full access in all 3.
For Christmas this year, the family got an Android tablet (Archos 101it). It is only WiFi, no service provider network. I launch the browser and it opens to Google -- no problem. I open the bookmarks and select several of the pre-assigned links -- no problem with any of them. I manually type in a couple of addresses -- no problem. I type in the address to my own web site and it refuses to load. The progress bar gets to about 15% and stalls. I try manually typing in the address for several of the other pages on my site, but none of them will load. Sure that I'd eventually find a work-around, I moved on to playing with the rest of the tablet.
Next morning, just before tinkering with the tablet, I launched my site on my phone (not the tablet) while on WiFi and, as usual, it got the pages with no problem and loaded just fine. The phone had been sluggish the last couple of days though, so I rebooted it. When it came back up (still in WiFi mode), I launched the browser and went to my site and could not access any of my pages. No problem hitting other sites, just not mine. Even after a quick reality check that our PCs and Mac could access these pages (even after a reboot), I was stumped. Now I have TWO devices that can't access my own site. After about an hour of tinkering, I remembered that I was in WiFi mode (and remembering the problems we had a couple years ago with not being able to get email or sms while in WiFi), I toggled back to 3G. Viola! My pages popped right up! I then switched back to WiFi and was able to still access the pages, and see newly updated data. I rebooted in WiFi mode and once again, the problem was there. Toggled to wireless network and, once again, the pages returned.
This is why my tablet can't connect, because it has only WiFi. It's just strange that it has no problem connecting to all other web sites, just not mine. And strange that all other devices in the house on WiFi have no problem connecting to the site -- only the Android devices can't. I never found out if the iPhones could get the page in either mode.
My site is not on a local server (not in my house), but on a shared server from a professional hosting company (Stream101.com). I also tried connecting to my main domain, but the results are the same.
I've contacted the web hosting company, but they haven't heard of this before. The only thing that I can think of is that it's because my pages are on a Shared Server instead of being completely dedicated. Has anyone else noticed anything similar?
Terry
For Christmas this year, the family got an Android tablet (Archos 101it). It is only WiFi, no service provider network. I launch the browser and it opens to Google -- no problem. I open the bookmarks and select several of the pre-assigned links -- no problem with any of them. I manually type in a couple of addresses -- no problem. I type in the address to my own web site and it refuses to load. The progress bar gets to about 15% and stalls. I try manually typing in the address for several of the other pages on my site, but none of them will load. Sure that I'd eventually find a work-around, I moved on to playing with the rest of the tablet.
Next morning, just before tinkering with the tablet, I launched my site on my phone (not the tablet) while on WiFi and, as usual, it got the pages with no problem and loaded just fine. The phone had been sluggish the last couple of days though, so I rebooted it. When it came back up (still in WiFi mode), I launched the browser and went to my site and could not access any of my pages. No problem hitting other sites, just not mine. Even after a quick reality check that our PCs and Mac could access these pages (even after a reboot), I was stumped. Now I have TWO devices that can't access my own site. After about an hour of tinkering, I remembered that I was in WiFi mode (and remembering the problems we had a couple years ago with not being able to get email or sms while in WiFi), I toggled back to 3G. Viola! My pages popped right up! I then switched back to WiFi and was able to still access the pages, and see newly updated data. I rebooted in WiFi mode and once again, the problem was there. Toggled to wireless network and, once again, the pages returned.
This is why my tablet can't connect, because it has only WiFi. It's just strange that it has no problem connecting to all other web sites, just not mine. And strange that all other devices in the house on WiFi have no problem connecting to the site -- only the Android devices can't. I never found out if the iPhones could get the page in either mode.
My site is not on a local server (not in my house), but on a shared server from a professional hosting company (Stream101.com). I also tried connecting to my main domain, but the results are the same.
I've contacted the web hosting company, but they haven't heard of this before. The only thing that I can think of is that it's because my pages are on a Shared Server instead of being completely dedicated. Has anyone else noticed anything similar?
Terry
