Problem: I get to my class pages on our
                        server and check my email but I can't get
                        to Microsoft's Main page. <br>
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                        <b>What I Did:</b> <br>
                        <b>Beginner:</b> I opened up Netscape and went
                        to a few of the places that I frequently
                        go to and all of the pages seemed to be
                        working fine. I could also check my email.
                        However, when I tried to go to a few new
                        places I kept getting errors. A few
                        minutes later i didn't have any more
                        problems.<br>
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                        Advanced I used a &quot;ping&quot;
                        utility that allows you to put in web
                        names of a lot of different places. At
                        first i was only able to get info back
                        from computers that were on our local
                        network but later i was able to get
                        responses from all of the sites except
                        from Microsoft. <br>
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                        <b>Solution:</b> At first I thought the Internet
                        connection was down from our building to
                        the Internet because I could access every
                        machine that was local. <br>
                        <strong><br>
                        Beginner: </strong>What was confusing was
                        that many of the pages I normally go to
                        were showing up because they were saved
                        on my local machine in somthing called a
                        cache (whicy my admin says makes browsing
                        faster because it saves recent files for
                        a while so you don'thave to keep getting
                        the same info). when I thought I was
                        really seeing things on the internet AI
                        was actually just viewing files from my
                        computer which was misleading. Next time
                        I am going to try differnet webpages that
                        I haven't visited frequently.<br>
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                        <b>Advanced:</b> What was confusing was that the
                        :&quot;ping&quot; program didn't give me
                        any info back from Microsoft. That didn't
                        make sense so I went and asked my network
                        administrator what was going on and she
                        confirmed that the people who give us
                        internet access were having problems for
                        a while but that was not why I didn't get
                        a response from Microsoft. What I didn't
                        know was that some companies don't show
                        up on the &quot;ping&quot; utility. She
                        said I was on the right track but should
                        make sure I only &quot;ping&quot; places
                        I know are should work when I try to test
                        to see if the network is running&quot;<br>