Is Google down? gmail?

[UTUSN]

My Windows Live Mail is set up through gmail and can't connect. Connection through a web link for Google fails. Been an hour or more.

[Goalie49009]

1. I can get to Gmail with no problem hmmmm weird....nt

[UTUSN]

2. Thanks, that adds a clue to my mystery. & my navigating is very slow. n/t

[UTUSN]

3. Hmm, a separate puter in the house connects (same router). Mine can't Search on Google

but CAN on Yahoo. That is, I can get Results for the Google websites on the Yahoo search, but the Google links don't work. Can connect to other Searches on Yahoo.

[UTUSN]

4. Belay #3: The other computer was hooked up through Yahoo, canNOT get Google. Kindle is

stopped at the "Loading" for gmail.

[JoeyT]

5. I just spend six hours yesterday pulling a browser hijacker off a friend's

computer that only screwed with google related stuff. Google search, gmail, and youtube mostly. Try running a virus scan and a spyware scan?

[UTUSN]

6. Thanks. Situation resolved late in the day. In case somebody else has this:

My internet provider is a local outfit and in several years, there have hardly been any problems and the ones there were were resolved by disconnecting the modem, waiting a bit, then reconnecting.

I didn't try that first. Probably should have. Called the provider and got a bad phone rep and gave up the call.

Weirdly, could connect to the internet and to all other sites except Google, albeit slowly. I don't know whether there is such a thing as Google being "down," but that's what popped into my non-tech mind.

Later at a Costco, I tried gmail sign-in, and it worked. Back home I tried the provider and the tech merely had me disconnect the modem and reconnect and it all worked again. The tech had no clue as to what might have been wrong, just that the rainy weather might have messed with the lines.

Note to myself: Try the simple first.

Thanks to all.

[B Calm]

7. No problem with accessing my gmail.