A million thanks to all of you. I'm hopeful that Cox is now aware of the problems I'm having and are doing something about it. I'm awaiting a call from a local tech whom I know, but the local office says there is some sort of problem with many locals about our inability to reach Google and other sites. SO, I hope he will have some answers. He just called and says that there a number of sites affected and they think it is a blocked router somewhere in the system. They will come out and bring their own laptop and then use mine for diagnostics in an attempt to see where the problem is. They also have 'level 2' techs on the issue now. I'll report the results. Pat On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 03:42 AM, Andrew Nye wrote: > When I had probs accessing ebay, but could get most other sites, the > cable company said it was their fault - their DNS servers were having > a problem with viruses or something. > > Andrew >