Robert in CA wrote:
Boy, you won't believe what happened. I spent
2 hours getting blow off the Internet because
I couldn't connect to a DNS server. It turned out
to be my modem. Luckily I remembered I had a new
one and pulled it out and called and configured
it and now back in business...... whew!

Robert

Did you try power cycling the old modem first,
just to see if it would recover ?

Or did it keep doing that each time ?

It's possible the new modem was getting
DNS info from a different server at the ISP,
and that's why it worked better.

Paul