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OK - did the ping. Most of them (bank, land's end, jet blue, etc.) came back as "request timed out." Some (google, jcpenney) did show me a time (less than 100ms).
When I did the port 443 test, it came back as fine. We don't have a router anyway. We get our connection directly through the modem.
Thanks for all these suggestions though. They're great!
"When I did the port 443 test, it came back as fine. We don't have a router anyway. We get our connection directly through the modem."
OK, thought that would be it. Darn. Time to try downloading Mozilla Firefox and testing to see if there is an IE issue. Also, if you don't have a virgin hosts file, rename the hosts file to hostsold and try again. Unlikely, but possible.
i guess the OP did not try my modem solution option. in my case it always happens that my wireless looks connected but i cant go to internet. the comcast support always say to unplug modem for at least a minute then plug it back on.. and it ALWAYS works. oh well.
Sorry I didn't answer you, LBSer. I tried your modem suggestion a few days ago at the recommendation of my ISP (Time Warner) with no results. In fact, after being on the phone with them for 35 minutes, we hung up with no resolution. They don't seem to know what the issue is either.
Oh, and I don't have a firewall and I did empty my cache. I downloaded Ccleaner today.
Sorry I didn't answer you, LBSer. I tried your modem suggestion a few days ago at the recommendation of my ISP (Time Warner) with no results. In fact, after being on the phone with them for 35 minutes, we hung up with no resolution. They don't seem to know what the issue is either.
Oh, and I don't have a firewall and I did empty my cache. I downloaded Ccleaner today.
Major no-no with an always on high-speed connection. XP or Vista?
Run any updates to it and then scan using the AV and AS modules. If you have malware or some other piece of garbage causing problems this should remove it.
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