I've also experienced sporadic short term problems but this one was by far
the longest in duration, about 8 hrs.

It's working right now so that saves me from having to go through the
website!

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"FSt1" wrote in message
...
hi
i'm not having trouble now..but i have had problems in the past. my IPS is
windstream.
i don't know if my IPS or microsoft, but at times (sparatic), i just can't
seem to get into groups. sometimes i am in a group ( excel gen questions)
and
try to switch to another (excel -programming) and i get the ol time out
error:"Unable to connect to server". clicking the "back" arrow takes me
back
to the page i was on.
time of problem varies also from several minutes to several hours. most of
the time it's ok. but still ...... there are times.
wish i could give a concrete answer but sorry.....
been there, experienced that. really sucks.

maybe obama can fix all of our internet problems.......

yeah....right!

Regards
FSt1


"T. Valko" wrote:

Hi Folks!

Anyone else having trouble connecting to the newsgroups through Outlook
Express? I keep getting a time out error: "Unable to connect to server".
This
started at about 2:00 PM EST Friday. My ISP is Comcast.

I'm accessing through the web interface for this post.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP