Eureka!!!

I have been driven nuts the last week or so trying to figure out why my website would stop working for no apparent reason. Then I was searching the forums at ADSLGuide.

I had tracked the problem down to my router but couldn't understand what was happening as it had been working for months without any changes to it. I found an article explaining my exact problem, it ended up being Trillian my instant messaging program. I'd also been using this for ages but had only just added another account to it.

Basically Trillian constantly sends out a signal to the different chat networks, ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo and I had just added my Yahoo account to Trillian and it was this that had caused the problem. The router thought it was a Denial Of Service (DOS) Attack so closed off some ports. Which means my website wouldn't work.

I know probably no one who reads this will understand it but I am now very happy and might actually get some sleep!!