# I can't load ESPN.com from home
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-load-espn-com-from-home/156799
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 22, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-load-espn-com-from-home/156799 "2003-02-22T17:45:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-load-espn-com-from-home/156799/1 "2003-02-22T17:45:17Z")
For those of you who may or may not know, [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com) just redid their site and added some sort of lame video thingie on the main page that you can’t turn off.
Anyway, ever since they did that, I have been unable to access their site from my home computer. The browser (IE 6) just times out. I can access it from work, however, using whatever browser comes on Windows XP just fine.
So what gives? I think that the new AV crap is making me unable to access the site. Am I correct in my suspicions? If not, what’s going on? And if so, how can I access the site?
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### Author:  [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-load-espn-com-from-home/156799/2 "2003-02-22T18:10:30Z")
You may want to try downloading the latest [Flash player](http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P5_Language=English) on your home PC. It’s possible the one you have is corrupted.
Also, are you using any web filtering software? Some programs tend to interfere with the way complicated pages load.
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### Author:  [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-load-espn-com-from-home/156799/3 "2003-02-22T20:03:08Z")
No, no web filtering software that I know of. But if my flash player was corrupted, wouldn’t it just not show me the flash section of the main page, rather than timing out the connection?
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### Author:  [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-load-espn-com-from-home/156799/4 "2003-02-22T20:14:04Z")
It’s hard to say. I think replacing the player is worth a shot though.
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### Author:  [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-load-espn-com-from-home/156799/5 "2003-02-22T20:19:35Z")
I agree that whatever stupid thing they’ve added was completely unneccessary. I haven’t had any problems getting to the site though. When I get to the site it says I must pass a systems check. The things it lists are:
-Windows 98 or greater
-Internet Explorer 5 or better
-Windows Media Player 7 or greater (this is the one of four I don’t have.)
-Flash 5 or greater
This new “ESPN Motion” is right up there on the obnoxiousness scale with the pop-ups the site has come up.
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### Author:  [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-load-espn-com-from-home/156799/6 "2003-02-22T20:27:25Z")
Oh man I couldn’t disagree with you guys more. I love the new feature, it’s like sportscenter on your desktop. I get all the top stories in extremely good quality video without loading or streaming. That kicks ass.
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### Author:  [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-load-espn-com-from-home/156799/7 "2003-02-23T00:57:18Z")
Hey, **Number** , good call in the new Flash player. I installed the new version and now I can access the site. Bravo.
As for the ESPN Motion thing - it’s not that I don’t like it, it’s that I don’t want it on the front page. Especially with sound automatically coming on. They should have a seperate link to it and no sound until you activate it. It’s a bit too gimmicky for me, anyway.