New Chat Room

[South Bank Hank]

The new chat room launched this morning, please log-in and have a play. Any problems getting in, please post them in here and we'll try to solve them.

[MK Shrimper]

Can you please email IT at Notwork Rail and ask them to lower their firewall please?

[Southminster_Shrimper]

Can you please email IT at Notwork Rail and ask them to lower their firewall please?

Xmas in 2013 they said they could do it when the firewall is quiet. But dont worry a replacement bus service will be available to carry the data across while the firewall is unavailable. They expect the service to be up and running by the rush hour tho...

;)

[Einstein]

Been trying a few times and getting the message "Error connecting to server. Please try again in a few minutes."

Not sure if that's my firewall or the chat room....

[Bob Cratchitt]

chances are the chat room has been setup to communicate on a non standard port, so anyone behind a corporate firewall will probably have trouble. It is always best to try to leave the connection on port 80 as all firewalls will allow this.

[ldnfatso]

looks ok to me and i'm behind a corporate firewall!!

[carl]

no swear filter on it

[Bob Cratchitt]

looks ok to me and i'm behind a corporate firewall!!

so anyone behind a corporate firewall will probably have trouble.


I guess this subtle bit was missed by you.

Can you provide the configuration of your corporate firewall so we can see why it works for you but not others??

[South Bank Hank]

chances are the chat room has been setup to communicate on a non standard port, so anyone behind a corporate firewall will probably have trouble. It is always best to try to leave the connection on port 80 as all firewalls will allow this.

Good stuff Bob, we'll see if we can use Port 80.

no swear filter on it

It does, we just haven't got round to thwarting you yet.

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

no swear filter on it

I found that out when 2 mods were in there chatting, thought i was in trouble.

[South Bank Hank]

Been trying a few times and getting the message "Error connecting to server. Please try again in a few minutes."

Not sure if that's my firewall or the chat room....

Right, not that I doubted it but... Bob C was bang on with his Port 80 statement. We've already purchased a module which deals with this automatically for users behind strict corporate firewalls but, for some reason, it isn't available on our control panel. I'll chase it up with the provider and then people should be able to log-on from anywhere.

[ldnfatso]

so anyone behind a corporate firewall will probably have trouble.

I guess this subtle bit was missed by you.

Can you provide the configuration of your corporate firewall so we can see why it works for you but not others??

You are a cheeky sod aren't you! I only posted so i may have been of help. I thought feedback may have been useful. I won't bother in future.

No, i can't provide my corporate firewall configuration. :finger:

[The Big Dady]

I can not enter the new Chat Room. :(

I get this

This forum uses AddonChat Chat Software.

To use this chat room, you will need to Download Java.


On checking on the Java site, I checked that I have the latest version of Java and it confirmed that I have it already installed.

Verified Java Version

Congratulations!

You have the recommended Java installed (Version 6 Update 7).


So, has anyone else any ideas what may be wrong?

[Bob Cratchitt]

Which browser are you using??

Also did you goto this site http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

And can you see the dancing Duke?

[The Big Dady]

Thanks for the info Bob,

I am using Internet Explorer with Windows XP.

After writing my post above last night, I checked the Java help pages and came across the page in your link. This did NOT show the Dancing Duke, although the website confirmed after scanning I had the latest Version 6 Update 7 loaded.

So I checked the addon's in IE and had various Java items enabled and disabled. I then checked which Java runtime programmes were loaded on the my Laptop, found loads of Java runtime programmes from Sun Microsystems Inc, with various other versions and updates from Java versions 2.5 to 6.

So I have now deleted all Java versions and updates through add/remove programmes, and now reinstalled Java runtime Version 6 Update 7.

This has left only the following addon's in IE from Sun Microsystems Inc :-

Java Plug-in 1.6.0_07 ActiveX Control ssv.dll enabled
Web browser Applet Control ActiveX Control ssv.dll enabled
Sun Java Console Browser Extension ssv.dll enabled

Rechecked the Java page in your link and can now see the Dancing Duke.

Rechecked the Chat Room and it is now loading up and I can enter.

Not quite sure what my problem was, but it appeared the latest Version 6 Update 7 was either corrupted, or having conflicts with previous versions that were loaded.

Anyway all OK now, and it was a worthwhile exercise to clear the older versions of Java from the system.

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Guys.....the new chat room is a nightmare.....you can not read a thing because of the background.....we are having to highlight all the text each time just to be able to read it

[Hazey]

Yeah can't use it at the moment can't read anything there.

[Bluesmanager]

Not to mention that I have to roll the mouse over everything so I can post. Can't use it for 2 minutes, let alone however long the Quiz takes.

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Not to mention that I have to roll the mouse over everything so I can post. Can't use it for 2 minutes, let alone however long the Quiz takes.


The Quiz will never work in there in a million years

[Southminster_Shrimper]

The Quiz will never work in there in a million years

Your all running scared!!! Any excuse eh....tsk tsk.