Well, as I may have stated earlier my internet has been acting extremely stupid. I called up the ISP (We have a hi-speed cable connection) and after doing a few things they told me it was simply my browser's proxy setting; which might be a possible culprit if I used a proxy server.

I originally thought it was home-networking related (since normally I connect via wireless) but when I set the desktop straight through to the modem it didn't solve anything.

ipconfig and netstat and ping charter.com tell me nothing I can really use except that the computer is communicating with other servers just fine (In fact my average ping on guitartricks.com is 37ms) so that just makes the fog all that more dense.

Has anybody else encountered this problem?