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To: Elroy who wrote (79384)	9/4/2012 2:38:00 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110642

Yes, a command line window. I call it a DOS window. When you "ping siliconinvestor.com", did you see it change to an address and then four ping requests timed out? Under properties in your network settings, it probably is set to automatic. I was suggesting trying to change it to manually set it. If your ping requests are timing out, I'd guess there is a problem somewhere else. Scan your machine with malwarebytes or other antihijacking stuff?

To: Elroy who wrote (79384)	9/4/2012 11:24:09 PM
From: Mario :-)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110642

Elroy, there are three options that may go wrong: - your computer software side (operating system and settings of network) - your computer hardware side (network card and/or router, cord) - something outside 'your' such as your internet provider... First one you can easy check. Download (when you can) ubuntu live CD. Then burn it as ISO (not data) file on CD. (Free Imgburn or free CDBurnerXP will do). Then insert CD into drive, make sure BIOS is set to start looking for boot sequence from CD drive first. Insert CD you created, boot from CD (don't install when prompted, but choose something like 'run from CD' and then wait until you get Ubuntu (linux) running. Then open browser (Firefox Mozilla) and try to visit all sites you have problems with. If you can get access to all, then you have Windows/driver/settings problem. This way you can easy test for hardware malfunction of your computer - if it works under Ubuntu it should under Windows as well. The only other suggestion I can give you, to start using Open DNS. Do it anyway, it is faster and they auto filer out bad/harmful sites. Instructions how to do it you can find on their site: opendns.com If this was already suggested sorry for repeating, I'm answering as I go/read and I'm few days behind :-)