I have been having trouble with Awalnet DSL connection since yesterday. The “DSL connection” status in my Linksys model is connected but the “Gateway” status is down! It only connects for a few minutes every few hours then disconnects for no reason! I tried to contact Awalnet support but their 800 toll-free number is unavailable
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Internet is down, is it Awalnet or STC’s fault?
Google Translate adds more languages, still blocked in Saudi Arabia
Google Translate added support for more languages. The added languages are: Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. In Saudi Arabia, only translating text a text box is available. But trying to translate an actual website, for education purposes perhaps? And it is blocked! The blocked URL: http://translate.google.com/translate is blocked
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Having trouble with the Internet? Try this solution
I’ve heard from many people about problems with their Internet connection. Apparently many of the Saudi ISP’s did not patch a major DNS flaw revealed 2 months ago. Guess STC is too busy advertising and not patching . The best solution is to use OpenDNS. Just follow this guide and just change the DNS settings
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Blocked in Saudi: An Australian ISP hosting site
One of the most frustrating things is having a full ISP blocked just because of a single questionable item. An example is the blocking of http://members.iinet.net.au/ which is a hosting service provided to the users of an internet service provider in Australia called iinet. Now I cannot view the images hosted at this blog because
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What’s wrong with Sahara?
Anyone else in Saudi Arabia noticed that on some websites you see an older version of the page, maybe a few days old? I noticed that with Sahara. Especially after the undersea cable cut that happened a few months ago. This is very frustrating as it caches RSS feeds, making the download of podcast episodes
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Blocked in Saudi: Amazon’s Images?!
Visitors of Amazon’s European sites will notice a lack of images. The images website is – for no reason at all – blocked. The blocked URL is: http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/ This will certainly disturb any e-shoppers out there, so remember to fill this form to have it unblocked!
Unblock in Saudi Arabia Successful: Squidoo
Squidoo is finally unblocked in Saudi Arabia. “Squidoo is a website designed to make it easy for anyone, for free, to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about. Advertising revenue is shared with these content creators, and some of it is given to charity.” I
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Blocked in Saudi Arabia: web applications site and a firefox tool?
This tool that is provided to offer importing of delicious links into Firefox 3.0. For some reason it was blocked! Here is a screenshot of this service: The block actually extends to the main site ( http://www.e-accent.com/ ) which is a Dutch (Holland) site that offers maintenance and hosting of “Ruby on Rails” web applications.
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Veoh is no longer available in SAUDI ARABIA
This is rather odd, instead of the site being blocked in Saudi Arabia, Veoh.com is blocked for Saudi Arabia visitors. A message saying “Veoh is no longer available in SAUDI ARABIA.” with a contact form. I urge everyone to visit the site and fill the form. Update: According to this “not about saving resources but
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Unblock in Saudi Arabia Successful: Vimeo
I reported earlier that Vimeo.com was blocked in Saudi Arabia. And as I was browsing around, I discovered that Vimeo.com is unblocked! It’s a shame that DailyMotion is now blocked in its place. I believe that the blocking methods in Saudi Arabia are being done like this: kitten vs. frontrow from mattcoats on Vimeo.
