[U]My[/U] problem is greatly resolved. :D

Sunday afternoon I noticed a marked improvement, i.e., there were no time outs leading to "This page can't be displayed" when I clicked on various GT links (lessons and forum). I really put GT thru the wringer with more than a dozen 'clicks' within just a couple minutes and everything opened quickly. This happened with both IE and Foxfire which I had newly installed.

Monday morning was great. My early morning hours practice involving multiple GT lessons (blues and country) and songs had [U]no[/U] interruptions. I was flying high.

Shortly thereafter I wrote James and told him the good news. As always, he was quick to respond and gave me further details about the net's potential for backbone problems. All was great. Then...

Within a half-hour or so of my email exchange with James the same 'ol time out problem was back. It lasted from about the 12-hour Mountain to the 2 p.m. hour when I left the computer. Back at the 7 p.m. hour, I went through 18 'click's' on the Forum within 10 minutes. All connected fast.

This morning I skipped practice. I was behind in a lot of 'stuff', I was tired and didn't want to get up for my normal 6-hour start, and I simply didn't want to be disappointed again if the problem was back. But so far I have experienced no problems bouncing around in the Forum (8-, 11- and 2-hours). This is a huge improvement over what I experienced the last two weeks when every session with GT was ultimately interrupted/terminated with a fateful 'click'.

Right now I'm pretty optimistic and very relieved...I spend a lot of early morning hours on GT and the interruption and distraction was depressing. Maybe one of those solar flares burned somebody's butt at the troubled Tier 1 provider. :D

Fingers crossed. I had the same problem in mid-March but it lasted just a day or two and went away. Hopefully all this is gone away for a long time.

john