[Al Skierkiewicz]

Hey Mike,
Check the lights and see if there is a lot of data being sent through the router. There is a good possibility that one of you has some spyware that sent out info and the other sites are trying to attack you. If you see a lot of activity, take one computer off line at a time and see if you localize it. There is a lot of phony baloney MP3 sites as well as other stuff that just tries to trash your systems. On occassion we have had computers get into a loop trying to push data onto the network and never finish. They tie up the routers something awful. A friend had a problem at work where every afternoon the network would bog down. They traced ot to one router and found that a worker was getting a lot of data sent through from the internet. It turned out that his boss had loaded an MTV screensaver and when he went to a meeeting in the afternoon the screensaver would start downloading full bandwidth video to his desktop.