I met a great bunch of elky guys at a car show in North Dallas, TX, Region 13. They invited me to join ECC.

Problem: Using Vista and IE8on my desktop, I could not connect to ECC for nothing. Kept getting page load errors. I changed IE and firewall settings till no end but still could not connect. Funny thing is that on my wife's wireless laptop (using same router) I was able to load page, sign-up, and login. The laptop is running IE7 under XP.

Now, I'm no newbie when it comes to networking and programming, but this was driving me crazy. I also had done a search "cannot connect to website" and found a post from the Chevelle Forum site with someone having the same problem trying to get on ECC. I had only come across this site (ECC) and www.speakeasy.com/speedtest (http://www.speakeasy.com/speedtest) where I could not connect. The simple fix...

Fix: I did a manual uninstall of IE8, downloaded and installed the old IE7 with my current firewall settings and... wha la... it worked. After talking to some other "Net Heads", it seems that there are more stability issues with version 8 than the older version 7. Never was able to narrow down the exact problem, but at least I'm here.

You can go back in time without a DeLorean! Hope this helps someone.