From: "Geo" 

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:44c58fb9$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> I tried two random addresses. One of them went further. It happens to be
> an address from Verizon and I'm on Verizon DSL. Coincidence?

That's TOO weird. It has to be a firewall setting or something.

Try

traceroute www.google.com

and see what you get.

Geo.

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