[blade85]

from what I can tell the problem seems to be somewhere in Los Angeles..lol

buuuuuuut, when i use my laptop on a different connection to the one im on now..it works fine :-/

So can it be that a different service provider would use a different route and as a result get the connection, but I cant?


Have you tried the sites???

---------- Post added at 23:12 ---------- Previous post was at 23:09 ----------

here is the tracert to yahoo answers

There is a huge leap in ping towards the end but i still cant get the site to show up on IE or firefox.

C:\Documents and Settings\User 1>tracert answer.yahoo.com

Tracing route to rc.yahoo.akadns.net [206.190.60.37]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms edge.Belkin [192.168.2.1]
2 10 ms 8 ms 7 ms 10.72.64.1
3 21 ms 8 ms 8 ms osr01king-v11.network.virginmedia.net [62.30.193
.161]
4 11 ms 10 ms 8 ms osr01perr-tenge73.network.virginmedia.net [62.30
.247.69]
5 9 ms 9 ms 7 ms perr-t3core-1a-ge-010-0.network.virginmedia.net
[80.0.176.69]
6 14 ms 11 ms 11 ms man-bb-a-as1-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.
175.181]
7 20 ms 17 ms 17 ms gfd-bb-b-so-200-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.25
2.192.94]
8 23 ms 20 ms 31 ms redb-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.
185.78]
9 173 ms 218 ms 204 ms 83.245.9.226
10 194 ms 204 ms 205 ms ae2-p151.msr2.re1.yahoo.com [216.115.108.63]
11 228 ms 204 ms 204 ms ge-9-3.bas-a1.re4.yahoo.com [216.39.49.3]
12 226 ms 204 ms 204 ms w2.rc.vip.re4.yahoo.com [206.190.60.37]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\User 1>