Hey all. I'm having weird difficulties establishing a secure connection to certain Web sites. Some work fine (gmail, online banking, amazon, itunes etc.) but some (paypal, me.com, random ecommerce sites) will not load on my iMac in any browser -- have tried Safari, Firefox and Chrome. The pages will start to render and then hang forever with no further network activity. This only occurs when connected to our home wireless setup -- cellular data connections via iPhone or iPad are OK. I've checked the router settings and nothing is being blocked there. No difference with OS X firewall off, or with Little Snitch disabled. Even switched ISPs to see if it was something at that end of the toobs, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas at all? This is doing my head in!

I got nothing for you except sympathy. You even missed your birthday thread! Happy belated, etc. etc., and good luck with fixing the inter-toobs.

Have you plugged directly into one of the router ports via ethernet? Or directly into the modem's ethernet port to take the router out of the equation?

Maybe you are being censored?

Andrew, do you have security turned on your wireless network or is it public? If it's the latter, set up security and try again.