Originally Posted By: edshaw
If you can get to command prompt by typing in cmd, THEN TYPE TRACERT add the url. It will display something like this as it is happening.


I remember years ago I had my connection drop every time I went west. Anything that ran through Chicago would kill me. I pulled out my Sam Spade tool and found a router in Chicago that was dead. Called my ISP and asked for tier 3, explaining that this was a network problem and nobody at their level was going to be able to fix it. Some guy named Patrick with a Canadian accent (everything ended in "eh") asked what was up and I told him "You have a router out in Chicago at IP xx.xx.xx.xx." He said "Oh yeah? Hang on eh?" I heard him tapping and then he said "I'll be darned. We have a router out in Chicago eh." I said "I just told you that." He said "That must be where I heard it. How'd you find that eh?" And I laughed and said "With Sam Spade, just like you." He just laughed and said they'd get someone out to see if it needs a reboot or they'd change it if it was totally dead, we said goodbye, and in an hour that path was working again.

I LOVE this stuff!