Cannot connect and Do not stay connected to the RPF

[TK648]

Hope that a Mod will see this and can help with this
I need help with this all of my computer network settings are automatic configured using DHCP

I bought a new Apple iMac back in March 08 when I hooked it up to my DSL connection everything worked with no problems logging into the RPF or any other Sci Fi based forum.

Now all of a sudden I cannot log onto the RPF with out changing my network settings over and over again to stay connected to the RPF.

And once I do get signed in, I am lucky if I can put up a post or goto a different section of the
RPF without changing my network settings. And this only happens when I log into the RPF home page no place else or any other forum

For example:
When I try to go from the props section to the Junkyard section or when I try to respond to a post the transfer from one page to the next stops so I have to change my network settings
then I get this message

You are not connected to the internet
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=47574&page=18” because your computer isn’t connected to the Internet.

Then I change my network settings again and the page I was going to loads and I can continue
if I am lucky until the page stoops loading again

Please do not tell me to use a different browser I get the same message with Firefox

Once again this only happens with the RPF site and no other web site

Any body else here have a iMac with this problem

My friend who works for AT&T
AKA: The Evil Empire (The Death Star is in there Logo)

Came by today and I told him about my problem logging into the RPF
He told me that since AT&T has been working on their new digital U-Verse TV
and internet. They changed alot of their security protocalls for this new system which has been messing up alot of peoples computers not allowing them to log into
other web sites as well. So I can drop AT&T all together and get phone and DSL
from somebody else, or wait for AT&T to get my area wired for this u-verse
digital thing and put up with changing my network settings every time I want to
log onto the RPF. Or maybe somebody high up in the RPF has a fix for me.

 

[Mr_Creepy]

Do you click the "Rememer me" tab when you log in? Not sure if that would help you, but it might be a simple fix.

 

[TK648]

Do you click the "Rememer me" tab when you log in? Not sure if that would help you, but it might be a simple fix.

Thats not the problem, even when that remember me box was un-checked
the main RPF page fully loaded, and I could not post until I signed in

When I click on my RPF book mark, the RPF address appears in the address
window at the top of the browser a blue line appears and only goes as far as
the http:/www. Then stops and the browser window remains blank then I get

Safari can’t find the server.
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.therpf.com/index.php?showforum=6&styleid=1” because it can’t find the server “www.therpf.com”.

And this happens with all other browsers too, not only safari
and only with the RPF site

But when I change my network settings The full RPF page loads
and if I am quick enough I can choose the area I want and get in with out
changing the network settings again, which I have to do just to post this