Up until 2 weeks ago it was fine.  I did all of the things suggested on the help forums such as clearing cookies, history, checking my McAfee Total protection for internet access etc.  I've been using Wikipedia for years without a problem.  I read that Wikipedia might have banned my IP address which I don't understand why as all I've ever done is read articles for my own personal information, that's all I ever do there.  I did a registry clean before this happened but restored the files a few days later, I don't remember what registry cleaner I used as I uninstalled it.  I've tried loading on different browsers but it still won't load.  I am using windows 7 with Mozilla Firefox, and Google chrome on yahoo 7 and ninemsn.

I can't load Wikipedia from my desktop or my laptop, I keep getting an error message saying the connection has timed out....the server is taking to long to respond. Up until 2 weeks ago it was fine. I did all of the things suggested on the help forums such as clearing cookies, history, checking my McAfee Total protection for internet access etc. I've been using Wikipedia for years without a problem. I read that Wikipedia might have banned my IP address which I don't understand why as all I've ever done is read articles for my own personal information, that's all I ever do there. I did a registry clean before this happened but restored the files a few days later, I don't remember what registry cleaner I used as I uninstalled it. I've tried loading on different browsers but it still won't load. I am using windows 7 with Mozilla Firefox, and Google chrome on yahoo 7 and ninemsn.