Problem when trying to sign into hotmail at school.

For some reason, whenever I try and sign onto hotmail with my Macbook at school through a proxy, it doens't work. It just times out. This is strange because:

1) It works at home

2) My Acer laptop can connect just fine.

What's the problem here? It is becoming quite annoying. Also, I don't think Gmail works either but my main concern is hotmail.

 

Contact your school's network administrator. He probably has hotmail blacklisted or something. High school computer admins are stupid.

 

I don't think it's that, because hotmail will works on other people's computers.

 

Hrm, interesting. Have you tried boht firefox and safari?
Can you ping or tracert to hotmail? Can other machines ping yours?
My desktop can't get to certain sites. I'm not sure why, but I think it's because it's runing in stealth mode.

 

Your school admin probably blocked it

 

I'm not going to name which one, but a local college blocked the address to genmay.com. Reason being? Pornographic content. Stupid admins lol.

 

I would suggest talking to the administrator anyways, if he says something stupid like "because your using a Mac" come back and tell us and we'll beat him to a bloody pulp. But on a serious note, I recommend asking nonetheless.

 

Ok, i think i'll ask. It doesn't work in Opera or Safari. I tried to access it through Parallels and it worked. =S So I thinkk it might have somthing to do with the proxy and a macs.

 

I'm wondering if its a firewall setting on your Macbook, do you have the firewall turned on?

 

I don't know if I have the firewall on. How do I check? Also, if it was on, it wouldn't make a difference would it? Seeing as how I can still access hotmail from home.

EDIT

No, the firewall is not on.

 

Ya it is definitely a settings issue in your Mac. Take a look at the System Preferences-->Networking-->Proxies. You probably need to set something up there. Make sure you make a new location for that too.

 

What do you mean by new location?

 

When you get into the Network pane, it will have location near top. Create a new one. That way the settings at home can be different from school, and all you have to switch is your location. It allows multiple network settings, home office, school, friends, etc.

 

You mean when you try to go to hotmail, and it takes forever and doesn't open the page? And you see the address changing a lot?

If so, I have that problem too. Just go through my.msn.com

That works for me.

 

Ah problem fixed. Turns out that the https proxy was blocking the connection.