Thanks to both you and Bruce for your replies. The've been very helpful
and insightful :-).  I'm sure my problem has to do with something like my
cable and/or modem configuration.  I'll try to check my cable and my modem
configuration and try and fix this curious problem.  Thanks again.

-Jose


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