Three mobile network appears to be blocking hummy.tv

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Owen Smith

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I browse the web on my iPad during lunchtime at work, using Three mobile network. hummy.tv hasn't worked for a couple of days, giving the following. Anyone know if I'm doing something wrong or is this Three being stupid? Other web sites are working fine on Three. If I switch my iPad to my phone's wifi hotspot which uses O2 it's fine.

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Dunno, but the hosting provider for hummy.tv has recently changed, which caused me an upload problem yesterday (now resolved). Might well be something to do with that, but what exactly I couldn't say.

(You should've sold last week!)
 
My home broadband is by Three 5G and I have no problems accessing hummy.tv or other sites, I do have the Three adult filters turned off
 
HugeMaximum said:
See if turning off content filtering (adult content) in the three app or My3 Online fixes it.
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I have no login for this Three account, I bought it as a physical SIM to go with my iPad 3 (yes that long ago) when that was a new product. I've tried getting a login to go with it, but Three refuse to provide one unless I change to a current contract. Which I am not going to do because this SIM has free EU roaming. I can't find any current mobile provider with free EU roaming for a data SIM that will go in an iPad, they all limit the free roaming to phones these days.
 
I sometimes get weird "page could not be loaded" outages on some sites too, when other sites or other access mechanisms are working fine. I have a suspicion it's iOS getting in the way.
 
Not just iOS. I've had the identical "page could not be loaded" message but only on this site. The confusion for me is that the page looks like it has been generated by this site. (On my PC or phone the page matches the style of a hummy.tv one. The hummy.tv style is not the same as my default style.)
 
EEPhil said:
the page looks like it has been generated by this site.
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That's true.

So it's the forum software generating the page as a result of a time-out accessing the forum database, possibly due to overload. Why that should be client-dependent escapes me, unless that's a coincidence.
 
Black Hole said:
unless that's a coincidence.
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In the American TV series NCIS the lead investigator (for 18[of 23] series) had a set of ~100 rules:
Rule #39: There is no such thing as a coincidence.
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But seriously, given the amount of "guests" trawling through the site an overload is possible. There's probably a finite number of connections to the database, possibly configurable, and some bot has nabbed the last one as you want to access a page. So coincidence. Unless the number of connections is very high at lunchtime when Owen is trying to access the site and hummy.tv is overloaded every day at this time, his experience doesn't look like coincidence. Then there's the difference between access via Three and O2. Very strange!
 
Black Hole said:
I sometimes get weird "page could not be loaded" outages on some sites too, when other sites or other access mechanisms are working fine. I have a suspicion it's iOS getting in the way.
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Google maps doesn't work properly on my (iOS 26) phone any more, on mobile data - it only partially works and then says I'm not connected to the internet.
But it does work fully if I VPN all the traffic back to home, or it's connected to WiFi. I don't know when it stopped or what its actual problem is ('cos of the completely useless error message that so many hopeless tech companies use today - the "something's broken" effect).
 
EEPhil said:
Unless the number of connections is very high at lunchtime when Owen is trying to access the site and hummy.tv is overloaded every day at this time,
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I started this thread with a screen shot I took at 21:50 from home yesterday. Lunch time is irrelevant.
 
EEPhil said:
Not just iOS. I've had the identical "page could not be loaded" message but only on this site. The confusion for me is that the page looks like it has been generated by this site. (On my PC or phone the page matches the style of a hummy.tv one. The hummy.tv style is not the same as my default style.)
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If it's the identical message to the below, it seems a strange message to come from the hummy.tv site... e.g.:-
"Check your internet connection and try again" - that would be the browser, as if you've connected to a website, if wouldn't (/shouldn't) say that - as you would have just connected to it!
"Certain browser extensions, such as ad blockers, may block pages unexpectedly. Disable these and try again." - that one seems to be a suggestion from the broswer.
"hummy.tv may be temporarily unavailable. Please check back later." - that would be the browser, as if hummy.tv had a problem it wouldn't say it may be temporarily unavailable!

The style being the same as the hummy.tv one could be that it's following the style of the last page viewed - assuming there was a successful visit to hummy.tv prior to refreshing/reloading the page(?).

I've had no issues or error messages trying to load hummy.tv from laptop (Windows 11, latest Chrome/Edge/Firefox - on Virgin Media fibre broadband) or mobile (Android 16, latest Chrome/.DuckDuckGo - on either the same Virgin bb or vodafone 5G).

Are there any CDN's (Content Delivery Network) involved with hummy.tv? If so, that's another place to look at.
 
Black Hole said:
That's true.

So it's the forum software generating the page as a result of a time-out accessing the forum database, possibly due to overload. Why that should be client-dependent escapes me, unless that's a coincidence.
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But websites wouldn't say "Check your internet connection and try again", etc. As per post #18
 
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