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f0dder:
Tried disabling the firewall temporarily?

barney:
Completely uninstalled both Comodo & MSE, but still had approximately the same frequency of errors, so I reinstalled - running unprotected makes me nervous  :huh:.

I've been looking for another old software package, believe it was called Visual TraceRoute, but it's apparently off the market.  Used it from 98SE through 2K, but lost it somewhere in the transition to XP.  It had two very redeeming qualities:  after it had mapped all the nodes, you could hover over a node and see more information than most tracert progs provide; and it could be set to run continuously, writing results to a log file, until it was shut down, a valuable tool that saved me much grief at the time.  Actually, I don't think I lost it, I think it went shareware, and $$ were kinda hard to come by at that time.

Looked at several current variations on that theme, but none of 'em seem particularly effective or attractive.  I'm testing itlights.com's Visual Trace Route right now, and it works pretty well, but shows too many unknown hosts and doesn't log.

Reason I keep harping on a continuous tracert log is that it lets me see - if there's anything to see - a before/during/after scenario when this problem occurs.  That way, it's easier to identify seemingly random problems, much like the problem Shades encountered during the World Cup matches.  That, and history:  I learned to appreciate such logs in the IT sphere before I left MCI.

Anyway, while firewall & A/V software may, from time to time, contribute to the problem, they don't seem to be the overt cause.  Been thinkin' 'bout switching to something like OpenDNS for a bit, to see if that will help, but that still would not rule out the ISP's server configuration(s), wouldn't eliminate any sort of throttling that might be extant.

I'm looking for external tools, now, because the tools intrinsic to the system just aren't giving me the information I need - or, perhaps, I'm just not sharp enough to properly interpolate/interpret that information.

cmpm:
Could be a router issue, from searching for answers.
Connect a Computer directly to the net without the router to see.

J-Mac:
Similar problem only with Firefox and only since 3.6: My error is always that "Server busy..." dialog which pops under FF and gives no indication it is there except that FF stops responding. Maddening! Not extension-related as it occurs in FF Safe Mode and even on a fresh install of FF without extensions.

Jim

4wd:
Perhaps WireShark ?

I used it find out where my connection was going awry with respect to gaming servers on my previous ISP, (turned out they ran all the HTTP traffic through their proxy and you had to specifically request a destination IP bypass otherwise the packets just never got through).

Have it monitor the connection and log everything, (keep the logs smallish ~2MB and only the last few), pause it's logging when it happens and see what it says - IIRC, the log was pretty easy to understand.

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