I was going to try puppylinux, that times out as well, see tracert below.
I tried the google DNS setting, made no difference.
My ISP responded
Eu is having data transfer problems. unable to replicate on a dial test but appears the I.P. may have been blocked as it is failing at the host servers.
I'm wondering if it's something to do with my router now.
I would rather fix this just in case it happens again, and anyway i want to know the cause
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Peter>tracert
www.puppylinux.orgTracing route to
www.puppylinux.org [66.96.160.129]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 37 ms 52 ms 37 ms lo0-central10.pcl-ag04.plus.net [195.166.128.185
]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 36 ms 36 ms 37 ms xe-0-2-0.pcl-cr02.plus.net [212.159.0.206]
5 36 ms 35 ms 40 ms ae1.ptw-cr02.plus.net [195.166.129.2]
6 50 ms 37 ms 53 ms ae2.ptw-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.4]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 38 ms 38 ms 38 ms ae-51-51.csw1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.88]
9 40 ms 35 ms 37 ms ae-115-3501.edge3.London1.Level3.net [4.69.166.1
30]
10 37 ms 37 ms 39 ms be3043.ccr22.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1
5.245]
11 38 ms 39 ms 37 ms be2315.ccr22.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.73
.109]
12 123 ms 123 ms 124 ms be2391.ccr22.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.44
.237]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.
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