> 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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