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help with cable modem !

Dec 6, 2003 12:01AM PST

hi, i have a problem with my cble modem and beong able to ping different sites or people. I used to be able to png anything out on the net with no problem, but just out of the blue i cant ping anything. can anyone help me with this problem??thanks, david. if you need my system info i have a tool that can generate like 100 pages of my computer info so say so and ill post it.

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Did you call your cable co?
Dec 6, 2003 12:24AM PST

They have outages and nothing could be wrong on your end.

Bob

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Talk to your ISP...
Dec 6, 2003 1:11PM PST

they may be blocking pings due to various viruses and script kiddies that ping blocks of IP addresses.