Macbook air will not load requested pages on certain websites (ie. page 2 of shopping website)
When shopping on specific websites (Nordstrom.com as example) I cannot move past page one of browsing. And, if it does advance to a second page, it wipes clean my search request and displays random items from the site.
BDAqua,
thanks but already done. I've tried an old laptop and although it was loading the offending pages this evening, it was taking 20 mins to load each page. I need to go to my ISP, I reckon.
Yet again, all the relevant pages go down at around 1700 and then spring to life again at 2300.
Stuadh
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