I am an English native speaker and hold a Master Degree in Applied Linguistics, so I was able to read what you wrote with ease. There was no need to repeat it. If you don't want to assist me then...

The new address today is 171.248.135.11 Should I be able to ping that address from my home computer? I can ping the gateway, but not that address.

I'm sorry, I don't understand. That IP address seems to be a public address to me. My private addresses are all 192.168.1... What makes you say it's not public? It's the address allocated to me by my...

Here you go, thank you. Steve

No further input into my query?

Thank you for your quick reply. I've attached a screen shot of the Status tab. As an aside, I've noticed that accessing the modem/router admin site on 192.168.1.1 times out regularly. It can take me...