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This morning I found that I cannot access a lot of sites that I normally am able to. SE.net is down. I cannot access DSLreports.com, hell I cannot even access Foxnews.com WTH?

Any one else having connection issues to any sites? It is like one of the pipes is plugged or down.

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I can get all those sites. I can't get hotmail for a little while. I doubt they're related.

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Dell.com is down. Hell most of the sites based in CA are unreachable. WTF?

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This is very odd. I can't access any site except sites that I normally access say for this one. I don't have any viruses and .... oh wait... I did do a MS update last night... WTH did those bastards do to my computer? God Damn Microsoft did it too me again!

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Well I checked these site using my LapTop and two other PC's. No joy. There must be something down locally to cause this problem.

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I can access my DSL router, but it won't let me access any of the functions. Gives me a 404 error. This has never happened before. I reset it, still has the same problem. I am going to call qwest tech support now.

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Could your ISPs DNS server be playing up?
Though, it shouldnt really affect your DSL router if it was

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Well the tech support lady I have now just told me that it was my internet explorer that is causing the problem. So I tell her that "the problem is with all of my computers including my wireless LapTop and that it occurring with both IE, Netscape, and Firefox." Then she asks me what anti-virus I am using. I tell Nortan on hall PC, Trend on the lap top, and AVG on this one. Then she puts me on hold. That means she doesn't want to deal with the problem and figures I will stay on old until I get tired and hang up.

Since I cannot access the functions on my DSL router, that to me means that my DSL router is screwed up.

God I hate Qwest customer service. I have now been on hold for 10 minutes.

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Ok this is very weird. So the tech lady has me enter CMD into my run option. Then she had me enter tracert www.dell.com and it did nothing but stated "unable to resolve target system"

Then when I typed dell.com into my browser, (FF) it loaded the page. So I tried www.dslreports. Got a 404. So I did the tracetr www.dslreports.com and it brought up a lot of information. Afterward I was able to access dslreports.com with FF.

The tech lady still doesn't believe that the problem is my DSL router, but I do. She says its all green on her end. However how would you explain this? I mean none of my PC's including the wireless could access these sites.

She is bumping it up to another department. I am back on hold.

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It had to be either the DSL router or something local within the BB system. Now I can access EVERY site. This is very very odd.

A hick up in the system perhaps? I am still on hold.