Thanks, Milkie. 1 & 2 can be ruled out. I'd love to find an address for Leviathan so I could run tracert. My tracert to cnn, etc is fine. My laptop is an ASUS ROG, 2.8ghz i7, 16 gigs ram, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. I'm downloading the shadowbringers benchmark now - thanks for that tip!