Problem solved!
I did a registry restore from an earlier winsockfix, which did not help, so I reapplied the fix and it worked. Seems it must have been something corrupt in the "socks".

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Thanks antioed. I tried the telnet to the router and the modem and could not connect. I tried it from my XP machine and it worked so I think the problem is in the win2k pc. I will double check the...

Hello to all from a newbie to this forum.

I have read many of the posts here and could not find a solution for this frustrating problem:
I can no longer connect to the internet from my desktop...