In the past few days I have been unable to go onto the Roblox website. When I try load the website, I am greeted by an empty webpage. When I open up Roblox Studio, I am given a 403 access denied error message.
However, this only remains the case on my university accommodation WiFi (Glide) and the university’s WiFi networks (Eduroam). When I connect my laptop to mobile data, I am allowed to explore the Roblox website as normal. This is hardly ideal, as you can imagine. However, my access to the DevForum isn’t compromised.
I’ve tried to access the website on 3 different devices (1 of which was my flatmate’s mobile) on 3 different operating systems on 3 distinct browsers with no luck.
I would like to know if this is intentional or a mistake, and what courses of action I can take to mitigate this issue.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
It was already stated in your Development Discussion thread, but I suspect this is because your organization has restricted your access to Roblox on it’s network. You should try contacting them to enquire about whether this is the case or not. Even if you could access Roblox several days ago, they could have put the ban in place just now. You could also try using a VPN - this might help you find the root cause of the issue and could serve as a temporary solution.
As the person above states, it’s likely an issue with your universities internet administrator blocking access to Roblox. My college does the same thing with Roblox and any social platform such as Snapchat and Twitter when I connect to their WiFi. The second I turn off WiFi and switch to cellular data those apps and Roblox load instantly. It’s common for education institutions to block access to sites that might distract you e.g gaming / social platforms.
My university (CSUF) has the same problem. The only computers which can connect to Rōblox are the ones in the e-sports lounge. These selective blocklists are very very likely being defined at the MAC-address level.
If you have a rooted Android phone, use that for your hotspot.