I have a mate who has an old windows 98se machine, and the ISP is orange. On a fresh install of windows 98, with the usb adsl modem drivers installed for the modem he can get a connection to the net ok and ping a few sites. However when he loads the browser, after getting google and later search results, he can go no further. The browser reports "webstie found, waiting for reply" but thats all that happens. The same occurs in firefox as well. He cant type urls into the browser and get any further either. Strangely when on google, a hard refresh still brings up the page. He had this exact problem prior to a clean install. He has used another pc with the modem and it worked. Does anyone know whats going on?