little woman - it sounds like there is absolutely no problem with your connection. The error message that you received indicates that the problem lies at the recipients end. Most common cause is that the person you are e-mailing (or whatever) does not have there computer connected to the internet/web/whatever.

I sent myself to my e-mail address at home (I have my own domain) and it bounced 3 times. I waited 10 min and it went through! I went home and it was there. I sent a reply and when I got to work it that had arrived.

Perhaps the connection keeps breaking and its BTs fault?

We are paying for a business connection, not home connection - 65+ per month!

lw - now that does sound more like a network problem. Wouldnt have thought that it was an intermittent fault though.

Try the following:

From 'Start', go to 'All Programs/Accesories' and select 'Command Prompt'

Little black window appears.

Type 'ping' followed by a space then your DNS name or IP number.

See what the results are. This will tell you if your PC is actually connecting to the world via you ISP.

To get back to windows, type 'exit'

Afraid I can't tell you what all the numbers mean, but it will give you an indication as to whether you are connected or not. Hope this helps :>)

Your right LW those MKS shares have come back up well.

On what basis I don't know unless some people think that Rose Is doing well or Green will make another bid.

It's probably neither of those things but just the market rise In general and If we get a market pull back, down will come the MKS price with It

OK If people had got In at 330p though!

Price now at above It's takeover speculation price, at a guess I'd say the next move Is down, but thats only a hunch.

Thanks all,

We lost the internet connection at work so we all gave up and went home early!

Starfrog if the problem is still there in the morning I'll try what you suggest.

Stan - I hope not, I thought Green offered 3.80(?). I thought if it countinued back down he'd come back and this time be successful. Personally I don't think Rose is doing a very good job, but if the price doesn't hold he may not be there too long!