He couldn't ping those sites either, and John also tried pinging both those sites and couldn't ping them. Is that significant, Peter?

Interestingly enough though, we can telnet to IWT and he can't, despite neither of us being able to ping IWT either. But Greg explained most of why that was, I think.

He asked if it could be a SP2 issue, he just installed Service Pack 2, and turned off the SP2 Firewall and is using Sygate Personal Firewall instead.

Could SP2 have added some sort of packet limitation to foil P2P networks, and maybe be trying to limit the web packets? He is not currently running a P2P file sharing program and he scanned for viruses, trojans, spyware, aware and nothing was detected. and all his AV programs are up to date.

He's also tried several browsers to see if one of them was the problem, but it wasn't.

We're beginning to think it's a router at the ISP and he'll have to call them to fix that, I guess. He's gonna be out of town for a week though, so maybe it will fix itself? (We can hope).

Thanks for all the help here, guys. Hopefully he'll get it figured out.

Nightowl >8#

If he doesn't get it before he leaves, I'll have an answer when he gets back.

Thanks Peter.

Just curious, since I'm gonna have to use SP2 pack sometime, have they worked out any of the bugs on it yet, or is it still screwing things up everywhere?

Nightowl >8#

Still not sure when we're gonna get it, but John wants it on a CD, so he's getting it directly from them or something like that.

I'm calling it a night, owls are tired.

Thanks for all the help here.

Nightowl >8#