[solo gringo]

Yes I am haveing a bad time i thought my dsl was on the blink.

[mdmathis6]

It's the same problem I was having trying to get into Drudge's site several weeks ago...ran a trace route and discovered that the packets were being bottled up in a "cogent peer testing" site. I ran a trace route and the trouble seems to start at the 128.242.105.82 router..the last hop befor entering the freerepublic site (150 ms's before hopping to free republic.