try
www.google.com
"Richard" <news.richardNO@SPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> If I try to ping www.microsoft.com using the packet size ping it times
out.
> Annoying as it tells you to do that on their website:
> http://www.xbox.com/support/live/rou...tworkerror.htm
>
> Quite a few .com addresses will time out
> It works fine to most .co.uk domains,
> and cocacola.com worked fine to.
>
> So my router and modem are fine for that size packet ?
>
> But I'm dropping out of MM3 games too often for gamer satisfaction. :-(
>
> Any ideas ?
> Is there an address / IP I can trace route to for Xbox Live,
> so I can see where the hold up is ?
>
>