[rudedog]

Give us some background info on how your computer is setup to the Internet.

This means basically you have a nic but know protocal to connect to the Internet.


The technical definition:
[code:90a0d]A socket operation encountered a dead network. This could indicate a serious failure of the network system (that is, the protocol stack that the Windows Sockets DLL runs over), the network interface, or the local network itself.[/code:90a0d]