Thanks for the reply 6_pac.
Yes I do have a brick wall in front of the blue globe.
I noticed my Lynksys router had a firewall active as well as Zone Alarm so deactivated the Lynksys one. The java.exe program has question marks set next to it in the program control part of zone alarm but still the brick wall is there.
That link you mentioned showed `your test worked` so wondering what to do next?.
Cheers
Steve