Sam wrote:

I know, strange isn't it? I've noticed that I can't d/l from a few
other places w/ the home network that I have no problem accessing at
work. Must be a firewall setting or something, but it's so hit and
miss.

It's possible that your firewall has some content filtering that's blocking
out these pages. I remember when one couldn't access pages about Essex
County from certain libraries.

[Actually, I should point out that I don't know that this is no longer true
everwhere.]

Another possibility is that there's something "wrong" with your home
connection that is being flagged and disallowed by the web servers
delivering that pages you cannot see. I don't consider this likely, but it
is a possibility. Such checks are becoming fairly common on mail servers,
and some system administrator might be overreacting.

Alternatively, it may be a browser setting. I don't have flash enabled, for
example, on my home browser. So I cannot access any site which requires
it. Similar issues exist for Java, Javascript, InactiveX, etc.

Or perhaps your home ISP has damaged the DNS they're providing to you. My
home DSL provided did this to me once. They're actually quite good at the
networking (my DSL is far more reliable than most, if the complaints are to
be believed), but at "extras" like DNS or USENET they're pretty poor.

- Andrew