On 02/16/2011 07:37 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> What remains a mystery...I could not call up the modem >> and router status screens in the browsers using their IP addresses >> (no DNS used), yet both of them sent back immediate ping responses... > While unlikely, especially with two appliances involved, it is possible > that the web interface on them references public URLs, say for images, > that are then being blocked by DNS or general WAN connectivity issues. > > You can inspect the returned HTML on those devices to see if that is the > case. > > There are other possibilities, like proxy settings, or browser plugins > that might "phone home" to a public site on each connection request. But > with multiple browsers and OSs, this is even more unlikely. > > Web access filtering built-in to a router, if it depends on a public > site to look up information about a URL, might also explain it. But > didn't you say you had this problem both before and after switching routers? > > It may be time to break out a packet sniffer and see what's really going on. > > -Tom > Could it be a bad plugin or possibly flash. You and I are both running an old version.
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