"Connection Failed" "Unable to Establish Connection"

Location: Right in front of you, duh!

Registered: 03-09-2002

Posted

I receive these messages when trying to connect to 'chat'

What is wrong here. Is it on my end? I am not having problems on other message board chat rooms.

Location: Siberia

Registered: 01-10-2004

Posted

Try updating your FLASH & JAVA .

Which browser are you using? What version? Make sure your browser is updated

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Location: Right in front of you, duh!

Registered: 03-09-2002

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quote:
Originally posted by Boris:
Try updating your FLASH & JAVA .

Which browser are you using? What version? Make sure your browser is updated

tried with the flash and java. no difference.

using ie 7.0

REPEAT: Not haaving any problems with other message boeard chat rooms. Could it be on this end. Can anybody try and let me know?

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Legacy

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Registered: 02-02-2000

Posts: 11643

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Using IE 6.0 and had no problem.

Boris was in there too.

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Blair Kiel

Location: Responsible posting since 2006

Registered: 01-22-2002

Posts: 10184

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"Connection Failed"

Sounds like the love lives of most X4 posters.

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packerboi

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Posts: 7793

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Ya I got in there in as well so not sure what the issue is.

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El-Ka-Bong

Location: René Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink therefore I am.'

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did you say the magic word?

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Hauser

Location: Alexandria, VA

Registered: 02-06-2000

Posts: 19486

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works for me, but it's boring talking to myself

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TimthePackerFan

Location: 400 Miles South West of Lambeau

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Posts: 16672

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Do you have something blocking pop ups?

Make sure you have adobe flash player installed.

www.adobe.com

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Fedya

Location: Catskill Mtns., NY, USA

Registered: 05-02-2002

Posts: 7278

Posted

Surprisingly, it works just fine in Opera.

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Location: Siberia

Registered: 01-10-2004

Posted

quote:
Originally posted by TimthePackerFan:
Do you have something blocking pop ups?

Make sure you have adobe flash player installed.

www.adobe.com

That's probably it Tim. Good call. IE7 automatically is setup to block popups.

Hoophead, in your pop-up blocker settings please add timesfour.com to the "safe" or "allow" list. That will probably do it.

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Location: Right in front of you, duh!

Registered: 03-09-2002

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TTPF you apparantly did not read my second post in regards to flash(have active x)

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Still no go.

The site was already on the allow list. I also have google desktop popup blocker so I changed that to allow popups to no avail.

This is a newer laptop that I am using here. I also have a older pc that uses firefox and google popups and windows xp and I have no problems.

Hmmm.

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Location: Siberia

Registered: 01-10-2004

Posted

quote:
Originally posted by hoophead:
Still no go.

The site was already on the allow list. I also have google desktop popup blocker so I changed that to allow popups to no avail.

This is a newer laptop that I am using here. I also have a older pc that uses firefox and google popups and windows xp and I have no problems.

Hmmm.

Ok cool. So we've established that it's your "newer laptop" that's the issue.

Lemme guess? Vista?

I have no clue how the chat room will work with Vista / JAVA & FLASH. Google desktop?? YUK!!

Open your version of JAVA (In Control Panel) & be sure you are using Java 6. It has to be something simple unless Vista is blocking it some other way.

Try This JRE

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DurangoDoug

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Registered: 02-04-2000

Posts: 3414

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I run a Vista machine and have gotten into Chat with no problems during last season on game days. I just checked again earlier today and got into chat. I did not have to tweak anything on Vista, I got into Chat the very first time I tried.

Perhaps your security settings are set higher than recommended

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Location: Right in front of you, duh!

Registered: 03-09-2002

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quote:
Originally posted by Boris:
quote:
Originally posted by hoophead:
Still no go.

The site was already on the allow list. I also have google desktop popup blocker so I changed that to allow popups to no avail.

This is a newer laptop that I am using here. I also have a older pc that uses firefox and google popups and windows xp and I have no problems.

Hmmm.

Ok cool. So we've established that it's your "newer laptop" that's the issue.

Lemme guess? Vista?

I have no clue how the chat room will work with Vista / JAVA & FLASH. Google desktop?? YUK!!

Open your version of JAVA (In Control Panel) & be sure you are using Java 6. It has to be something simple unless Vista is blocking it some other way.

Try This JRE

yep; got java 6 update 5

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Legacy

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I tried Googling some of the error messages you were getting with "chat" and/or "java", and found other people getting these messages in various types of chat/java scenarios, but the advice they were given is a bit beyond me, but maybe someone who's on a higher level of tech could try that and see if any of it makes sense to them?

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TimthePackerFan

Location: 400 Miles South West of Lambeau

Registered: 08-18-2000

Posts: 16672

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quote:
Originally posted by hoophead:
The site was already on the allow list. I also have google desktop popup blocker so I changed that to allow popups to no avail.

This is a newer laptop that I am using here. I also have a older pc that uses firefox and google popups and windows xp and I have no problems.

Hmmm.

Not that Google is the problem but My Nephews computer had a major hissy when it came to google pop up blocker. After it was removed any pop up window was still blocked no matter what we tried, finally re-formatted the hard drive and all is well. I'm not a fan of toolbars of any kind.

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403072&sliceId=1

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=fb1634cb&sliceId=2

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Location: Siberia

Registered: 01-10-2004

Posted

Did you try the Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 6 Update 1?

It's different that just the JAVA.

JRE

Ignored post by Boris posted

Location: Right in front of you, duh!

Registered: 03-09-2002

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Completely turned off windows popup blocker and now I am able to get in.

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TimthePackerFan

Location: 400 Miles South West of Lambeau

Registered: 08-18-2000

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quote:
Originally posted by TimthePackerFan:
Do you have something blocking pop ups?

TA DA!!

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Smedley

Location: the Florida gulf

Registered: 09-07-2002

Posts: 3300

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quote:
Originally posted by TimthePackerFan:
quote:
Originally posted by TimthePackerFan:
Do you have something blocking pop ups?

TA DA!!

Ignored post by Smedley posted

Location: Right in front of you, duh!

Registered: 03-09-2002

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quote:
Originally posted by hoophead:
TTPF you apparantly did not read my second post in regards to flash(have active x)

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Still no go.

The site was already on the allow list. I also have google desktop popup blocker so I changed that to allow popups to no avail.

This is a newer laptop that I am using here. I also have a older pc that uses firefox and google popups and windows xp and I have no problems.

Hmmm.

I was not told nor was I aware there was an optional windows popup blocker.

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