Thanks everyone for your ideas.
Yep did that one a few times Mikey. Sometime she work, sometime she don't.
I think however I may have the sucker beaten now thanks to some pmed adviced from DeanoNZL. Yes it was a DNS problem. I don't know how it happened, but I had my old ISP primary and secondary DNS in my network tcp/ip. I don't know how I managed to connect at all.
But I'm back online and I know how to fix the sucker next time. Dynamite!!!