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Hello ChrisT, and thanks for those ideas.

(In fact the elderly machine is a 1997 G3 but doesn't affect your conclusions).

I tried powering down for twenty (yes 20) hours, yesterday afternoon to today, with no change, so that probably rules out the power-down as a solution.

Various threads on the Apple Store discussion forums show quite a few other iMac/cable modem problems, with the super-fast Intel iMac being allegedly too advanced for the old bog-standard modems. But on the other hand there are thousands of iMac users out there connected happily to the www, so I don't think it's inherent in the iMac.

Solutions in the States have been varied, including buying new cable modems (not an option here in the UK), slowing down the ethernet speed on the Imac, etc. The router solution hasn't been suggested, or rather I can't find it, but there are hundreds of messages, so a bit difficult.

How about this router idea? Is there any logic to it, i.e. does the ntl signal come rattling down the line, into the modem, find its way blocked by a router, and give up rejecting my iMac? Or is this just fanciful.

I'm fairly laid back about the problem, now, as a) I am old, and therefore have a degree of patience, b) it WILL be solved, sometime, and c) not being connected to the Internet isn't the same as having your leg sawn off (believe me, I know about that one).

However, the flat is tiny, and I really would like to give away the G3 (if I can find any takers) and concentrate on playing with my shiney iMac.


Thanks again, and further ideas still DESPERATELY welcomed.


Allen.