For starters, eveything that colonius has said is right on. I'd first start off by trying a different browser. That can really help diagnose problems.
Originally Posted by
Downunder girl
IB-Dick - thank you for responding.
Could you or your colleagues PLEASE help me ? I am STILL getting REDIRECT to Internet explorer issues each time I try to post and I am still LOCKED out of FT Chat and getting that java exception error

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This is really starting to drag on (since 13 November for me) and frankly I have just stopped hanging out here on FT daily. All my friends can now get back into CHAT, but I cant

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What is going on?

FT chat is broken for almost everybody, and we're working on getting that sorted out asap.
If you continue to have problems, can you possible paste a traceroute in here? To do this, please follow these instructions:
1.) Got to Start > Run...
2.) Type in "cmd" (no quotes) and hit OK.
3.) On the line, type in "tracert www.flyertalk.com" (no quotes) and hit enter.
4.) Copy the output and paste it in here.
There is a more detailed explaination on running a traceroute here:
http://support.verio.com/documents/v...fm?doc_id=3743 but instead of pasting that into notepad, you can just paste it into a reply window.