parkslope

Yea, lots of work being done in the NYC area. But the problem has been ongoing for over 8 or 9 days. It's reallys trange, I've never experienced anything like it before (being able to view pages in one domain only and being prevented from navigating out of that domain).

Thanks for reply (and for the welcome). I ran a few tracerts. I'll post them when I get home.

I have Time Warner's RoadRunner cable Internet service and am going crazy with a new little problem which has developed: My Internet connection is sporadically lost and I'm at a loss to explain why. This almost always happens like this: 1. Open Firefox 2. The New York Times site loads correctly as my default start page 3. I try to navigate to a different page (from Favorites or by typing in URL) 4. I get "The page www.xxxxxx.com cannot be found." Now, the interesting thing is, if I click around on the nytimes.com site that already loaded, the pages load fine. It's clear I'm still connected to the Internet, I just can't visit any other sites. Even if I try opening another browser like Internet Explorer, it won't find that browser's default start page or any other site. Also doesn't matter if I try to use my Favorites or manually type in the URL... the sites won't load. Now, usually within 30 sec to 3 or 4 minutes, everything seems to fix itself and I can navigate as usual (until the next outage). Turning the modem on and off also usually, but not always, works. I've had the modem for about 2 months (it's an RCA brand), but the problem only cropped up last week. I have a wifi router, but I removed it from the network chain and the problem still occurs, so it's not the router. Nothing has changed recently on my system. I did a full virus and adware scan, which came up clean. Time Warner will surely tell me to bring the router in for a new one, but any feedback will be most appreciated!