Brightedge,
Sorry for reporting back so late, I was out of town. Unfortunatly none of your suggestions have helped and it appears that the issue is completly random. Sometimes the site opens, and sometimes it does not. I have very good signal strength by the way.
Here were my steps after I read your ideas:
1. I tried the full domain name like you suggested
http://www.msnbc.msn.com, no luck and did not open
2. When I loaded helmi's wm6 I did not have the open DNS servers like you mentioned. My vision connection was like it was before and had "Use server-assigned addresses". So this step was nullified.
I went ahead and tried to manually enter in the DNS servers you gave me, then hit ok, soft reset and still no go. Other sites opened with the manualy DNS servers, but not msnbc.com or any variant of it.
3. I tried
http://msnbc.com and no luck, same error as before "the page cannot be displayed or downloaded because the connection was lost".
4. I want to point out that the browser DOES say "opening" but then barfs after that. Again the site opens on WIFI and when cradeled to my PC
5. Ideally I want to stick with pocket IE rather than loading opera, so I am hoping to find a way to solve this mystery
6. I did clear my browser cache in each step like you told me to try, but no luck
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Originally Posted by brightedge
I tested this, and found that it took much longer than usual to load the page. It did, however, finally load. About 10s into "Locating" http://msnbc.com/, the data connection arrows went gray. About 10s later, the arrows went white again, and the page loaded. I did noticed that the URL changed from http://msnbc.com/ to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/.
I restarted IE and entered http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ instead of http://msnbc.com/ and it popped right up. Looks like it has issues resolving the name. The main difference between WM6 and most 3.5 ROMs is that the DNS addresses have been changed from "Use Server Assigned Addresses" to the OpenDNS addresses found at http://www.opendns.com/
For shits and giggles, I reset the DNS setting to "User Server Assigned Addresses" and then tried opening http://msnbc.com/ and voila...it worked like a charm.
Please test the following and report back:
1) Try opening http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ and record your findings
2) Go to Start > Settings > System > Connections > Connections > Manage Existing Connections > Edit (Sprint PCS Vision). Tap Next until you reach the user name/password screen, then tap Advanced. Tap the Servers tab, and select "Use server-assigned addresses." Accept changes, restart IE, clear the cache in Tools > Options > Memory
3) Try opening http://msnbc.com/ and record your findings
4) Post back here and let me know what you found out.
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I may have been barking up the wrong tree. The reason Deepfish doesn't have a problem is because it farms out everything to remote servers (thanks luv2chill) and just sends your phone an image of the site. Here's something else to try...install Opera Mobile and try loading msnbc.com. Does it come up? Also, follow step 2 above, then select "Use Specific Server address." Plug in these values for DNS and Alt DNS: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
Once you have the new addresses in, accept the changes, restart IE, clear your cache, then try to open msnbc.com. Any luck?
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