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My attempts to get onto www.radioshack.com come up with a 'Network Connectivity' error in the browser (both SeaMonkey, and Chrome). tracert got as far as my National Internet Backbone (218.248.246.130); then timed out.

Friends elsewhere in the country are able to confirm the radioshack website is up and running. Posting the URL in FB showed the correct preview; so it's probably the route followed by packets originating from my computer to the ISP.

Since my friends use a different ISP, I'm guessing their gateway is different too.

Is there a way to tell my modem/packets to go to a gateway other than that of my ISP?

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No, because your ISP's gateway is pretty much a next stop. I don't know why it has to be, but it is.

To get to the other sites, you could try a web proxy website, if you can get to one of those sites then they may be able to get to the site you want, just taking another route. Bear in mind that it's not safe to enter passwords if going through a web proxy website though.

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A gateway is the gateway OUT of your network. When a request can't be resolved in the current network, it uses the gateway address to access the next network, hoping it can resolve the request.

This happens network-by-network until it gets to a network that can resolve the request.

So basically, there's no way to use the gateway of another network to get out of your network. :)

As barlop points out in his answer, a proxy server could help you as it creates a (re)request from another network, hopefully with a different, working route to the target.

Perhaps check out: What's the difference between "default gateway" and "preferred DNS server"?

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Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
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ADSL connection to ISP

Your "default gateway" is the "ADSL Router Modem" in the disgram above.

If you only have a ADSL modem, the default gateway would be a router at the point of entry into the ISP network.

In this part of the world, ISPs give away ADSL-routers (ie switch+wap+router+firewall+modem in one small box) for free, I haven't seen a plain USB-ADSL-modem for years. Your Mileage May Vary.

Basically, The IP pathway over ADSL provided via your phone line (or cable) arrives at a router in the ISP premises before it gets anywhere near the rest of the intertubes.

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