[epsilon]

Just a possibility... Have you set up sharing of your internet connection
with other computers on a local network? If so, try deselecting the
connection sharing. I found this cured my FTP download problem. Might work
for you too.

I don't know if it has any bearing on pinging!

Regards
e.

"Tim43" wrote:

> I am having two possibly related problems.
>
> First I can't access any FTP sites - I have checked the obvious settings
> under the advanced tab to no avail.
>
> Second I can access normal web sites but I can't PING any of them.
>
> Are the two problems related and what is the solution particularly to the
> FTP sites question?