AOL 9.0 and Hotmail problem

[DougM]

Just upgraded to AOL 9.0. Now, I cannot access my Hotmail
account. Never had a problem with AOL 8.0. I am going nuts
trying to figure out what happened... bad install of 9.0?
A problem with IE 6.0? How can I fix it? No problem with
any other sites I had tried to access...

 

[Burt]

Doug,
Contact AOL on this one... Sorry, but you might not get
much help here.
--
Burt
The Old Alaskan
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Just upgraded to AOL 9.0. Now, I cannot access my Hotmail
account. Never had a problem with AOL 8.0. I am going nuts
trying to figure out what happened... bad install of 9.0?
A problem with IE 6.0? How can I fix it? No problem with
any other sites I had tried to access...

 

[Ali Shams]

I had the exact same problem with some websites, like
hotmail.com and yahoo mail inbox (and others). Extensive
google searching revealed that other people have
encountered the same problem. But none of the solutions
posted (like changing security settings of the IE etc.)
worked for me. Finally the answer turned out to be the
MTU setting of my DSL modem (I found the solution in some
newgroup, but forgot which). I decreased it to 1400, and
the problem went away like magic! There is a tool called
DrTCP available on the net. Download it and try
decreasing the MTU of your modem. Let the group know if
your problem went away.