I’ve been banned from my own forum!

[pumpsiegreen]

Admins: I can’t seem to log on to proboards and my own Boston Red Sox forum. The url is:

Bostonredsoxforum.freeforums.net

I haven’t posted anything offensive. Could you please either let me know why this happened or reverse the ban? I am the admin on that forum. Thanks.

[pumpsiegreen]

Jan 24, 2022 9:23:28 GMT -8 pumpsiegreen said:

Admins: I can’t seem to log on to proboards and my own Boston Red Sox forum. The url is:

Bostonredsoxforum.freeforums.net

I haven’t posted anything offensive. Could you please either let me know why this happened or reverse the ban? I am the admin on that forum. Thanks.

[pumpsiegreen]

Btw, my home computer was hacked a while ago. That’s been fixed. So if anything weird appeared on my forum that’s undoubtedly why.
Hopefully you all can unban me so I can administer my forum. Thanks

[Kami]

What is the exact error you are receiving? There are different messages depending on the circumstances, so knowing the error can help folks better figure out what's happened (:

[Michael]

Hi,

I'm not seeing your IP or the admin account on the ban list so I'm going to second what Kami asked above, what is the exact text of the message you're receiving?

[pumpsiegreen]

Jan 24, 2022 10:00:41 GMT -8 Michael said:

Hi,

I'm not seeing your IP or the admin account on the ban list so I'm going to second what Kami asked above, what is the exact text of the message you're receiving?

Seems that somehow the situation resolved itself.
If it recurs I will ask for help here but I will provide the error message too.
Thanks all!

[pumpsiegreen]

Hey all

The problem has recurred. I got error message 1008.
Access denied
The owner of this website has banned your IP address.

I can access my forum on my cell phone but not on my desktop (running windows 10 using Chrome as a browser)

Help!

[Scott]

pumpsiegreen, are you using a VPN or proxy?

[pumpsiegreen]

Jan 28, 2022 8:25:41 GMT -8 Scott said:

pumpsiegreen, are you using a VPN or proxy?

I don’t think so. I haven’t changed anything on my computer settings.

[pumpsiegreen]

Jan 28, 2022 8:25:41 GMT -8 Scott said:

pumpsiegreen, are you using a VPN or proxy?

If I restart my computer I can gain entry to my site. I can do that if necessary I guess.

[bigballofyarn]

Jan 28, 2022 8:16:30 GMT -8 pumpsiegreen said:

Hey all

The problem has recurred. I got error message 1008.
Access denied
The owner of this website has banned your IP address.

I can access my forum on my cell phone but not on my desktop (running windows 10 using Chrome as a browser)

Help!

During this test, was your cellphone connected to the same WiFi network as your desktop, or were you using cellular data?

[pumpsiegreen]

Jan 29, 2022 7:46:55 GMT -8 bigballofyarn said:

Jan 28, 2022 8:16:30 GMT -8 pumpsiegreen said:

Hey all

The problem has recurred. I got error message 1008.
Access denied
The owner of this website has banned your IP address.

I can access my forum on my cell phone but not on my desktop (running windows 10 using Chrome as a browser)

Help!

During this test, was your cellphone connected to the same WiFi network as your desktop, or were you using cellular data?

My cell phone is connected to the same home Wi-Fi network as my desktop.

[harryk]

pumpsiegreen. If you don't pay for a static IP. Try switching off your WiFi modem/router for 20 minutes. It should be issued a new IP address after that.

[pumpsiegreen]

Jan 29, 2022 20:48:46 GMT -8 harryk said:

pumpsiegreen. If you don't pay for a static IP. Try switching off your WiFi modem/router for 20 minutes. It should be issued a new IP address after that.

I don’t pay for a static IP address.
The problem is intermittent it seems and is only on my desktop, not when using my cell phone.
Very strange.
Thanks for all the help!
You guys are great!