There are no settings related to phishing in MSE, just real time protection

Worth disabling real time protection to see if it make any difference, but I would advise against leaving disabled

Also, the OP can test quite easily for any software or O/S issues by booting into Safe Mode with Networking

If you click on Computer at the link I provided, it shows you how to change them for one PC

Easy enough to revert back just by undoing the changes you made

You need to be aware that with ping and tracert utilities that some nodes/hops are set to never respond to these packets, i.e. it is not definities proof of a problem getting 100% packet loss from a node.

If it was 1% to 99% then it would be more reflective of a real problem.

Thanks for this info Saffron. I've done a few tests on pingtest.net the past week and its results have always shown 0% packet loss. Is pingtest.net a reliable tester ?

What operating system are you running trogoy?

In terms of basic pings that site is fine.

Have you used ping from the command line at all? Much simpler, and less reliant on fancy grapbics and browsers

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What operating system are you running trogoy?

Windows 7 on laptop, vista on desktop pc.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

In terms of basic pings that site is fine.

Have you used ping from the command line at all? Much simpler, and less reliant on fancy grapbics and browsers

No, how do i so this?

Click Windows Start Button
type CMD <return>
type ping www.thinkbroadband.com
or the name of other places.

tracert is another command you can use to do a trace to the site you specify

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Click Windows Start Button
type CMD <return>
type ping www.thinkbroadband.com
or the name of other places.

tracert is another command you can use to do a trace to the site you specify

Just done the test for above thinkbroadband.com and results were 4 packets sent, 4 received ,0 lost.