[Robert Aldwinckle]

"Tim43" <Tim43@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17CF80AA-EC54-4B49-A186-64A6F1DC066C@microsoft.com...
>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.

Have you tried using the ftp command line service (or telnet) too?
If that doesn't work either the problem is independent of IE (the topic of this newsgroup)
and you would probably be better served in a newsgroup which specializes in networking
for your OS (which you have neglected to disclose.)


>
> Second I can access normal web sites but I can't PING any of them.

Because of measures which have been taken to counter moronic "denial of service exploits"
the only thing that ping can be used reliably for these days is checking DNS lookups.


>
> Are the two problems related and what is the solution particularly to the
> FTP sites question?

You don't have enough information about your symptom yet to consider a "solution".


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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