<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is rather strange. I'm on broadband with an ADSL modem, and the network configuration seems OK (automatic DHCP).<DIV>But when I run Firefox, it seems to get lost in the weeds. Usually fhe first site I look up will load with no problems, but when I follow a link, nothing happens. The status message says "connecting to ...", but the modem lights show no network activity, and everything just sits there till it times out. However if I ping the site, this works. Then after pinging, if I manually enter the URL into Firefox, lo and behold it works. Till I click on another link...<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any bright ideas, anyone?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers, Mike.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>---------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV> Mike Hore <A href="mailto:mike_hore@aapt.net.au">mike_hore@aapt.net.au</A></DIV><DIV>---------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>