Diagnose connection problems

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I happened to run "diagnose connection problems" from the IE7 Tools menu. I
got error messages as follows:

warn HTTP: Error 12006 connecting to www.microsoft.com:
warn HTTPS: Error 12006 connecting to www.microsoft.com:
warn HTTP: Error 12006 connecting to www.hotmail.com:
warn HTTPS: Error 12006 connecting to www.passport.net:
info FTP (Passive): Successfully connected to ftp.microsoft.com.
error Could not make an HTTP connection.
error Could not make an HTTPS connection.
info Redirecting user to support call

the support call redirect advised to contact the maker of the firewall
software (Microsoft :-) but there is no difference with firewall off.
I have no problems making any http or https connections from the browser, to
any of the above URLs.
Other PCs on my network, on the same gateway, do not show any problem
outputs from the "diagnose connection problems" tool. The PC showing the
error output is the newest and fastest.
I would suggest the tool is faulty, any comments to that?
 
I happened to run "diagnose connection problems" from the IE7 Tools menu. I
got error messages [...]
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I would suggest the tool is faulty, any comments to that?
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There are many possible causes, a loose contact in the cable
would be just one example.

Hans-Georg
 
Hans Georg,

I changed cables to my router with another PC that does not have the
problem. No difference, the tool still reports a connection problem.
Although the tool has this problem, I can always connect to the URLS with
the protocols that the tool aapparently cannot connect. I find that strange,
but since I have no problem connecting to any site, using ftp, http or https
I will just continue to believe the tool is faulty on this PC and not the
connectivity :)

Regards, AJS

Hans-Georg Michna said:
I happened to run "diagnose connection problems" from the IE7 Tools menu. I
got error messages [...]
Click to expand...
I would suggest the tool is faulty, any comments to that?
Click to expand...

There are many possible causes, a loose contact in the cable
would be just one example.

Hans-Georg
Click to expand...
 
I changed cables to my router with another PC that does not have the
problem. No difference, the tool still reports a connection problem.
Although the tool has this problem, I can always connect to the URLS with
the protocols that the tool aapparently cannot connect. I find that strange,
but since I have no problem connecting to any site, using ftp, http or https
I will just continue to believe the tool is faulty on this PC and not the
connectivity :)
Click to expand...

AJS,

yes, this sounds very much as if the tool is giving wrong
information. As long as everything else works ...

Hans-Georg
 
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