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Cannot reach particular website when connected to AT&T Wi-Fi
Neither Laptop, phone, nor tablet can reach a specific website when they are connected to my AT&T Fiber network at home. This just started Thursday 2023-02-02.
Observations:
1. All three devices reach the site perfectly when taken to work, coffee shop, etc.
2. Laptop and tablet reach site just fine when tethered to the phone's mobile hotspot
3. Phone browser reaches site just fine when using its mobile network
4. AT&T fiber gateway (ARRIS type) was factory reset and configured without parental controls or ActiveArmor, still no function
5. There are no security exceptions listed in Smart Home Manager
6. I cannot find anything in Smart Home Manager nor in the gateway's HTML interface that lets me manually white-list sites
7. I have read several other reports online about this exact issue from other AT&T Fiber customers and I don't have a lot of hope here
I am having to tether devices to the phone just for one application. Just started a couple days ago all on its own, and again as I said, ALL devices in house experience same issue until either hot-spotted or carried to another place with Wi-Fi
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JefferMC
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8 months ago
That's what I suspected. You're probably not going to like this, or maybe even believe this, but... I think the problem is not AT&T; it's the website or its network security. It may be triggered by your AT&T-issued IP address, but that's not AT&T's fault. Or your fault. AT&T is getting the traffic to GTT.NET / NODEFOUR.NET just fine, even though the server seems to be in the UK somewhere.
It looks like to me that you're not getting a response because, somewhere in that network, it was decided not to respond to your traffic. Maybe your IP was previously used by, or is in the same IP block with, someone who got on a bad-actor list. You've eliminated some other possible reasons why your traffic would be dropped by successfully using the same device on a different network.
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ATTHelp
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8 months ago
Let's help you get access to that website, @japortela!
Try the following troubleshooting options from our article that covers the topic of websites not working:
We also recommend restarting your gateway to refresh your Internet connection. This can be done manually by following these steps:
Let us know how it goes!
Lacey, AT&T Community Specialist
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tonydi
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8 months ago
Or, you can disable AT&T Internet Security (or Active Armor or whatever other name they're calling it) and be back in business. From the tons of reports we get in this forum, the primary "feature" of this software is to block legit sites and not give you a way to whitelist them because they don't throw a notification.
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japortela
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8 months ago
@tonydi yeah, that stuff is all turned TOTALLY off. Agree 100%
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japortela
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8 months ago
@ATTHelp Thank you for taking the time to forward that. None of this stuff helps. I can bring any random device off the street, bring it into my house, connect it to this Wi-Fi, and the site doesn't work. I've done every single logical elimination step imaginable. The problem is DEFINITELY upstream from my devices. Not only did I "restart" the gateway, I completely reset it to out-of-the-box state and no effect. Not to sound like a know-it-all, but I'm a qualified network engineer and not a typical layman customer. Just giving context here.
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JefferMC
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8 months ago
What error or message do you get from the browser when you try to visit one of these sites?
What results do you have from TRACEROUTE both from the AT&T Wi-Fi and from your mobile carrier (or somewhere else)/
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japortela
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8 months ago
@JefferMC Good evening!
1. "This site can't be reached... <URL> took too long to respond"
2. screenshot follows
3. screenshot follows
Looks like with traceroute both networks make it to devices on this 77.111 network the same before both started returning stars back to me.
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japortela
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8 months ago
@JefferMC that is actually super interesting. Also explains why it worked just fine until last week, communication was super glitchy, then just quit altogether. I’m not bad acting, just trying to file reports LOL (I know what you meant, was just makin the jokes)
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japortela
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8 months ago
@JefferMC i will happily entertain any logical explanation. thanks again.
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ATTHelp
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8 months ago
Thanks for getting back to us and providing additional information, japortela.
A good way to access the website on your network is by using a VPN. We also recommend contacting the site host to make sure there's nothing happening on their end that could be causing this, especially since that's the only website you can't access. Based on the traceroute, we're inclined to believe that the problem is not on AT&T's end.
If you need assistance with anything else, just let us know.
Thank you for visiting the AT&T Community Forums.
Aminah, AT&T Community Specialist
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