I just switched from Comcast to Verizon - same laptop, same e-mail client (Thunderbird), same router, same everything.
Suddenly, I'm getting lots of smtp timeouts. Since nothing else has changed, I presume this is down to Verizon FIOS. I tried thanks to a forum post, pinging pop.verizon.net, with the following result:
Pinging pop-verizonmail.egslb.aol.com [64.12.88.168] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 64.12.88.168:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)
Thoughts on how to resolve this?