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Tom LaRussa
07-11-2005, 12:24 AM
Just thought I'd share this in case others have a similar problem.

For several months I've been having an intermittent problem reaching SMC.

For no apparent reason every time I'd try to open the 'Creek I'd get the dreaded page/url/what-have-you not found message.

I tried everything I could think of -- really drove myself nuts -- and then one day a lightening storm solved the problem for me. No, not by blasting my computer! In order to prevent my computer from being blasted I unplugged it and the cable modem and left them unplugged for the duration of the storm.

When I hooked it all back up after the storm passed I no longer had any problems reaching SMC!

Since then the same issue -- being suddenly unable to reach SMC -- has occurred at least twice that I can think of, and each time I have resolved it by simply unplugging the cable modem for a while, then plugging it back in and rebooting the computer.

:)