Thanks a lot for your posts.
The other thing that occurred to me would be to try the following:
Start > run > cmd > ipconfig /release > ipconfig /renew
The VPN attempted connection may have changed my IP to something default like 192.160.0.3.
I didn’t even think to do an ipconfig /all, to see what’s going on there.
Will try that when I get back home.
Hopefully that solves the problem since the network card seems to be working fine (and no reason to believe the modem is bad, other than I can’t find anything else to blame!).
Thanks again for your input and help.
Sorry I haven’t been on since my post. I’ve been installing an email server and migrating the mail, settings, and contacts, from 3 windows boxes to it.
I’ll be on most of the night.