[Ronin76]

So I have something weird going on. For some reason I can not access this site when I am on my home wifi. On my laptop is say “403 Forbidde” and “You don’t have permission to access this resource”. I have the same issue using the app on my phone but what is weird is when I turn off wifi, the app works.

[BroDoze]

It's cause this site sucks.

[Tag]

Originally Posted by Ronin76

So I have something weird going on. For some reason I can not access this site when I am on my home wifi. On my laptop is say “403 Forbidde” and “You don’t have permission to access this resource”. I have the same issue using the app on my phone but what is weird is when I turn off wifi, the app works.

This site has had intermittent issues for a few weeks now. It's not your WiFi, think you just happened to turn off WiFi and refresh the page when it was back up.

[canDO_Stef]

403 is an active refusal. Sounds like your home IP address might be on a blacklist for some reason.

[Ronin76]

Originally Posted by Tag

This site has had intermittent issues for a few weeks now. It's not your WiFi, think you just happened to turn off WiFi and refresh the page when it was back up.

It I am using this site without wifi on. As soon as I turn it on my phone I can access it. It was perfectly fine last night. I will contact my ISP this weekend just to make sure.

[Tag]

Originally Posted by Ronin76

It I am using this site without wifi on. As soon as I turn it on my phone I can access it. It was perfectly fine last night. I will contact my ISP this weekend just to make sure.

Still don't think it's your ISP. Are you having issues with other sites too? If not it's not your ISP, it's this site having intermittent issues.

[canDO_Stef]

Originally Posted by Ronin76

It I am using this site without wifi on. As soon as I turn it on my phone I can access it. It was perfectly fine last night. I will contact my ISP this weekend just to make sure.

It is the site admins you need to contact, imho. The most likely reason it works off WIFI is that you have a different IP address.

Edit: the site does have intermittent issues (it's slow, fails to respond, etc), but as I mentioned, a 403 response is an active refusal. I suppose the site COULD respond with 403s for everyone due to a configuration issue. But now, site's behaving OK. Note that there are many reasons for a site to give a 403, including too large a request from the browser (eg, you are somehow sending a very, very large cookie). Might be worth trying incognito to rule that out, since it's easily done.

[matty_f]

Similar issue. I updated the app thinking that would help. Gives me an error that I’m not connected to internet.

[Click_ID]

I came here to share my nerd, looks like you other dorks got here before I did.

Nerd on. Happy Father day weekend lads.

[mynameisnick4]

If you ever want to rule out your computer, try a different browser or try your browsers in incognito mode/private browsing mode. This will rule out a cookie or browser setting problem. One step further would be to try a VPN if you have one. If the above doesn't work but then as soon as you connect to a VPN does work, then its something with your ISP.

[Ronin76]

Originally Posted by mynameisnick4

If you ever want to rule out your computer, try a different browser or try your browsers in incognito mode/private browsing mode. This will rule out a cookie or browser setting problem. One step further would be to try a VPN if you have one. If the above doesn't work but then as soon as you connect to a VPN does work, then its something with your ISP.

I will try that. I tried on my laptop (macbook) which is on wifi and ot didn’t work. I then tried on my pc which is hardwired and it still didn’t work.

[mynameisnick4]

Originally Posted by Ronin76

I will try that. I tried on my laptop (macbook) which is on wifi and ot didn’t work. I then tried on my pc which is hardwired and it still didn’t work.

If the issue persists across operating systems (Mac to Windows) then I would say its for sure on the ISP end. I have seen issues like that before where certain sites weren't available to people on certain ISPs. Usually it means something is getting blocked routing or DNS wise.

A VPN should get around all of that.

[GOLDPHO3NIX]

I wasnt able to access the site for a week! used VPN this morning and it works...

[Ronin76]

I connected my pc directly from my modem….bypassing my router and the site worked. So that means something going on with my google router and have been emailing them to figure out what the issue is. This is very frustrating.

[Tag]

Originally Posted by Ronin76

I connected my pc directly from my modem….bypassing my router and the site worked. So that means something going on with my google router and have been emailing them to figure out what the issue is. This is very frustrating.

I experienced the same issues you have over the past several weeks. When it first started, I too thought it may be an issue with my ISP, so I took a look at my Internet connection. I saw no dropped packets; circuit latency was low and there were no interface I/O errors, meaning it was healthy. I was able to get out to everything else without issue.

Tested with my phone connecting via cellular as well as using VPN from my computer. Sometimes it worked while other times it didn't, just like I was experiencing before. What I saw was some connections partially connect and then timeout while others are unable to connect at all. On other occasions you could connect fine, and everything worked before it started acting up again. This can literally be anything on bimmerpost.com from their server/s, database, networking, etc. Everyone here has chimed in over the past several weeks complaining about the website's intermittent issues. You might have missed it but a few days ago they had a banner that said the site was down for maintenance and that it would be back in 30m, it was down for hours which tells me they were probably aware of some issue and are trying to fix it.

TLDR: It's not you, it's them.

[Ronin76]

I’M BACK !!!

[M_Power Rob]

Originally Posted by Ronin76

I’M BACK !!!

Were you ever really gone??

[Carefree]

Originally Posted by Ronin76

I’M BACK !!!

I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

[Ronin76]

Originally Posted by M_Power Rob

Were you ever really gone??

Good point but some connection issue were preventing from really annoying you guys with my usual silly questions, comments, and threads.

[AZG87]

Bouncing modem wouldn't hurt. I have seen stale / bad DNS from providers trigger nonsense and bouncing can reset. Testing other browsers in incognito/private mode also rules out local browser cache issues as others have said. But also sometimes the site is just intermittent lol.