No connection to blynk cloud with Arduino Uno + GSM A6

[PeteKnight]

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Hot spot issues -just repeating "Connecting to blynk-cloud.com:80" but no connection

Just wanted to help others. I spent 2 days dealing with this. I have a hot spot with T-mobile and use that for my Internet connection. . I recently tried to setup Blynk on a nodemcu but no joy. Everything looked good. The DNS resolved correctly. No ports/ip addresses were blocked on my router. I could successfully telnet to Blynk-cloud.com on 80. The arduino IDE console showed nodemcu connecting successfully to WIFI and getting an ip. The nodemsc could ping blynk successfully. My route…

Pete.