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Android hotspot and Windows XP

I have a Samsung Stratosphere with the hotspot. My problem is that I can connect to my computers that run Windows XP but cannot get to certain sites. The ones that open do open fast but sites like Hotmail, Facebook, yahoo, gmail, sstack.com and others will not load. I can get on a friend's computer that runs on Windows 7 and they all come up just fine. I had a friend connect my computer with his phone (I think an i-phone) and it works just fine as well. What needs to be changed on my phone for my computer to work all sites?

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Wildman

That is a strange one because there isnt any way to restrict websites from the device so I really do not see anything you can do on the phone... Since you had luck connecting to your friends device have you tried connecting another computer to yours and see if their computer has the same issue?

Also can you browse those sites directly from the phones browser.... Another thing to check is the desktop browser because I had a situation with a college site not opening in IE but worked perfectly on Firefox..

Something to consider.

tammyopp

I have used a friends computer to connect with my phone hotspot. It is running Windows 7 and it all works as it should. It is just the computers running in XP that have the problem. I have three and it is the same with all of them. I have tried to get online in Firefox, IE and Chrome and have the same issue in all the browsers.

I would like to be able to get to those sites on my computers as I need to send e-mail attachments from Microsoft Word and cannot access the games on the mobile Facebook. There is just more that I can do on a regular computer verses my phone.

Wildman

Sorry I missed the part about the Windows 7 device, the new site default fonts are a bit hard to focus on sometimes...

What Service Park are you running on the PCs and also have you tried disabling any antivirus software and firewalls to see if they may be causing the issue... This one is a bit hard to trouble shoot without seeing the situation..

tammyopp

I think two of them are Service Pack 2's and I know the other is Service Pack 3. We have shut down the firewall. I can try to shut down the anti-virus software and see if that helps. I have in the past gotten on these sites with a wi-fi signal through a router so I know that they do come up. And they did come up just fine off the i-phone hotspot signal.

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