Well I use Explorer as well and funnily enough I only developed this issue after up-loading the latest set of updates...they were supposed to make connections quicker...as to whether they simply now "time me out" rather than enable me to connect quicker I don't know...but I don't have problems on other forums...so I figured it might be just this one or the higher amount of users since the S5LE was released...I don't know...and don't know enough to fix it...I have rang aol my ISP and they say nothing is wrong with my aol programming...it's a bit of a "bummer" not being able to post etc...