Anyone else have problems connecting to PCGS using AOL ?

1630Boston · February 4, 2019 6:45AM

Of course if you are you may not see this.

Sweetpie · February 4, 2019 7:02AM

I have to double check the posted year...making sure its not from 1999.

JBK · February 4, 2019 7:56AM

I've been getting a weird message thru Google Chrome saying they need to check the connection yo pcgs.com before they connect me.

BAJJERFAN · February 4, 2019 8:11AM

@JBK said:
I've been getting a weird message thru Google Chrome saying they need to check the connection yo pcgs.com before they connect me.

Me also too as well.

Boosibri · February 4, 2019 8:23AM

Don’t have AOL but Prodigy and Compuserve seem to be working fine.

toyz4geo · February 4, 2019 8:43AM

@JBK said:
I've been getting a weird message thru Google Chrome saying they need to check the connection yo pcgs.com before they connect me.

Me too. Using my android phone or my iPad I get the same message.

ChrisH821 · February 4, 2019 9:47AM

AOL still exists?

I do get this momentarily before accessing parts of pcgs.com

Baley · February 4, 2019 9:55AM

Sometimes the string connecting my tin can with PCGS's tin can gets tangled, and i can't hear their voice as well.

AUandAG · February 4, 2019 10:12AM

Don't worry, must have put a new deck of cards in the old baby. Up and running just fine now.

AOL is still around? Really??

bob

jwitten · February 4, 2019 10:19AM

@1630Boston said:
Anyone else have problems connecting to PCGS using AOL ?

Of course if you are you may not see this.

I think your free trial expired. Better go get you a new CD!

RogerB · February 4, 2019 10:24AM

@ChrisH821 said:
AOL still exists?

I do get this momentarily before accessing parts of pcgs.com

Same here. Started about a week ago.

JBK · February 4, 2019 10:44AM

I also got it on a PC with IE. So I wonder if it is PCGS that is doing the screening of the browsers being used to access its site.

Maybe AWOL is not recognized. They'll do a retro slab but not a retro browser?

BAJJERFAN · February 4, 2019 10:51AM

@AUandAG said:
Don't worry, must have put a new deck of cards in the old baby. Up and running just fine now.

AOL is still around? Really??

bob

It is. No AOHELL software on my computer tho.

johnny9434 · February 4, 2019 11:52AM

almost on line

3stars · February 4, 2019 12:30PM

NetZero working well for me...

BackroadJunkie · February 4, 2019 1:17PM

@ChrisH821 said:
AOL still exists?

I do get this momentarily before accessing parts of pcgs.com

It is a protective layer to make sure your browser isn't attacking the site. See this page:
a2hosting:How to use Cloudflare to help defend against DDoS attacks

A ddos attack is a "Distributed Denial of Service" attack where hundred or thousands (or more) of browsers/net appliences can be coordinated to attack a site and overload the servers, thus, a denial of service.

If you want to know how this could happen, google "botnet"...

JBK · February 4, 2019 3:07PM

It's getting worse - just now I had to do a "captcha" thing where you select relevant images from a series of pictures. That is some heavy duty security being deployed. I wonder if it is preemptive or if there was an attack.

StrikeOutXXX · February 4, 2019 3:16PM

@Boosibri said:
Don’t have AOL but Prodigy and Compuserve seem to be working fine.

LOL. Back in ‘84 I had a 75 Baud modem, upgraded to 300, then 1200, 2400 in the next year or 2. I would call a BBS before school, start a download of something we can access today in a nanosecond, and it might be finished by the time I got home from school. Thank god for advances in technology.

I too get the Cloudflare message posted above though. Pretty sure it’s a browser feature from a recent upgrade, since I saw it on a few sites today, not just here.

BrettPCGS · February 4, 2019 3:21PM

Cloudflare rerouting and occasional captcha are temporary as we work through a few tech things. Site should be functioning normally otherwise.

Brett

Traz · February 4, 2019 3:43PM

@1630Boston said:
Anyone else have problems connecting to PCGS using AOL ?

Of course if you are you may not see this.

Smart ass comments aside it might because they introduced cloudflares DDoS ??

Otherwise no idea. I can’t imagine how many people use AOL anymore.

Update: I think their cloud flare security setting is too high. I can’t submit coins because it’s freaking out at the credit card section. I know our ip is not on a blacklist.

@PCGSDev ?

mustangmanbob · February 4, 2019 3:46PM

Are you using coal to fire the boiler on your modem?

smokincoin · February 4, 2019 6:54PM

@JBK said:
It's getting worse - just now I had to do a "captcha" thing where you select relevant images from a series of pictures. That is some heavy duty security being deployed. I wonder if it is preemptive or if there was an attack.

Getting worse for me too.

GoBust · February 4, 2019 7:00PM

I can't connect to my grading results on my phone Keri dating error too. I have the above issues as well. I'm using android phone.

Traz · February 4, 2019 7:47PM

They must have messed up their cloudflare settings. That’s all I can think of.

Owen1793 · February 4, 2019 10:28PM

I'd imagine your having trouble connecting to anything using AOL lol

messydesk · February 4, 2019 10:58PM

WebTV is fine.

Anyone else have problems connecting to PCGS using AOL ?

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