What's going on?!?

[DrSpike]

Normal service should resume in 4-6 weeks.

[Alex]

Nikolai: looking at the screenshot you posted, I can see that the problem is very similar to the one I experienced some days ago. It is not related to your comp, and your ISP will probably fix it, just like Skanky said.

[Qilue]

Nikolai - While this may be of no use this time, you can save the output from dos commands to a text file. Using a '>' makes all output from for example netstat be sent to a device other than the screen. Using > prn sends it to your printer, > nul sends it to electronic heaven and > example.txt sends it to a file. The last one is what the command below refers to.

tracert -d >c:\windows\desktop\traceroute.txt

This command will give you a text file to paste into a forum post or email to your ISP. The -d switch turns off the resolving of addresses.

One thing that must be mentioned, with various computer virii and other lower life forms that engage in DDoS attacks conjesting internet, some networks (such as the one Apolyton is part of) no longer reply to pings.

EDIT - fixed typoes