Weird browsing problem with home network - pls help

[iceman]

Hi guys

Since yesterday, I've had a really weird problem with browsing on the home network.

It's happening on ALL devices connected to my home wireless router (BiPAC 7800N).

(2 x Win7 laptops, iPad, HTC Phone, iPhone).

What's happening is that it's not remembering passwords or passing through credentials properly when I try to login to some sites.

For example, each time I visit IIS, it hasn't remembered my username/password. When I re-enter it (or use chrome's autofill), I can login fine.

On Facebook and other sites, it hasn't remembered that I'm logged in.

On one of my work applications, I enter the username/password and it doesn't direct me through to the application. Just puts me back at the login page.

I did it on my wife's HTC phone, had the problem, turned off wifi and used the 3G network, and it logged in fine.

I've tried soft resetting the wireless modem/router, hard reset (power off and back on), reboot computer, and it's happening on ALL devices and ALL browsers (IE, Chrome, FF, Safari).

I rang a colleague and got him to try and login to the work application, and he could do it fine. So it's something with my home Wifi network.

Any ideas or suggestions? I'm stumped.

[iceman]

Just experienced the same problem trying to login to the admin side of this forum.

Enter my username/password, gives me the login redirection page, and then just gives me the login page again.

Even with 'remember password' on the IIS login page, every time I refresh the forum home page in a new tab, the username/password is not remembered and I have to login again.

Something weird with cookies? Javascript? https?

[h0ughy]

you have a second router. if not get a paper clip and reset the router and rebuild it from scratch

[iceman]

Just found that I can login to my work application using https and it works fine, but on http it does not. Just directs me back to the login page.

I can't try it with IIS because the forum doesn't support https.

Same deal with Facebook.
If I login as https, it works fine. If I login as http it doesn't remember that I'm logged in.

What's going on?

[michaellxv]

Has your router decided to be a proxy and mess with the cookies?
Sounds like something is blocking or messing with cookies.

[iceman]

It's like it's not allowing http cookies, but https is fine.

Not sure what would've changed in the router setup, nor where I can find it on this Billion 7800N.

[michaellxv]

Just reading the manual for your router. It has the option under URL filtering to block cookies among others things. Check this setting.

[iceman]

Yeh I just checked that and that's what has caused it.

But it has ALWAYS been like that, and as far as I can tell, it should ONLY block those things on the restricted domains.

I blocked a domain at the router the other day (an online gaming site) because my son was addicted to it, and those 4 options (attached) were already ticked.

So not sure what happened, but I unticked "Cookie" and now it's working fine.

I would've thought it should only apply to the domains you're restricting - not to ALL sites.

[iceman]

Maybe they weren't ticked and I thought that they would only apply to the restricted domain, so I ticked them.

Probably all my fault after all :)

[iceman]

Thanks for your help Michael - we both arrived at the same conclusion together :)

[michaellxv]

Read it again and it does sound like the check boxes are global and would apply to all URL's. At least it works now.

[kustard]

Kind of offtopic Mike, but how do you find the 7800N as a modem? My old Dynalink feels like it's about to expire and I've read good things about the Billion 7800N.

Glad you got it sorted, nothing like a silly issue to make diagnosing network issues a PITA.

[iceman]

I love it!

I had a D-Link before and it only supported ADSL1, and I had a separate Telstra modem.

This Billion is a combined modem/router, so a single device that supports ADSL2+ and I get much faster speeds. I don't get ADSL2+ in my area but I get high-speed ADSL1.

Highly recommended. So glad I got it.

[kustard]

Sweet! Will go grab one when I get time :D

[kustard]

LOL, well I finally got time (and some $$$ and some much needed motivation) and bought myself one of the 7800N modem/routers.

It's nice that it has 1GB ports as I now have a 1GB backbone running from the main router to a mini 1GB switch which has an XBOX360, PS3, Wii and an AppleTV along with my new mini media/backup server...

Works wonders with my ADSL2 as well as I'm right at the 3km cable length mark and other modems simply can't perform.