> Wanted to make an update. It seems (Based on online research) that I am not
>alone in the phenomenon of not being able to connect. I have become aware that
>others running have had the same problem. Although it doesn't actually look to
> be Linux related.

I was thinking it may have been a kernel or kernel module change that caused
the problem but if the issue happens on other OSs that's not the case.

> In the cases that I have researched when the person having
>the issue changed hardware the problem disappeared. With some it was as simple
> as changing to a USB based network interface as simply changing the PCI based
> NIC did not solve the problem. With me it was solved by changing the
> motherboard that was being used.

Maybe the NIC (built in?) just gave up for some reason. Glad you got it
sorted.. :)

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