As i have in another post i will here and appologise in my outburst to SE (more out of frustrtion). The problem in fact does rest upon your ISP in my case BE and if your with O2 they rent their servers from BE so your in the same boat.

However that doesnt change the fact that a SE member could have come here and said exactly what your saying Raist. Not everyone knows how to do a tracert to check if the IP to SE can be reached. Not saying SE has to teach people how to do it but a simple forwarding statement explaining the problem isnt theirs and its the ISP thats the issue would be something. Instead they decided to sit there and ignore whats happening. So yeah as i stated im sorry for my outburst, its not a SE problem but their CS department needs some work...