Hi all I'm experiencing broadband problems AGAIN. Eircom tell me its a 42/1 ratio. Anyone ever heard of that. They said that the line can only carry 42 people at a time. Sounds 'mad' to me but maybe here in the country its possible. Anyway the symptoms of this nuisance problem are that on average 50% of the time when I open internet explorer or outlook express, I get the following message "The host 'mail2.eircom.net' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'mail1.eircom.net', Server: 'mail2.eircom.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D". bla bla bla The cure for the problem is go away for five minutes and come back and try again. 99% of the time it will work properly second time round. Anyone out there experience anything similar or ever heard of this problem? Edel..