Devilfish, sometimes that will happen to me and I don't know why, but if I take action to go online, everything starts working.  Poser is not searching for anything and I'm not an expert, but it works at least for me and every time.  Something, gets a kick when my modem is activated.  Doesn't even have to go all the way through to my IP.  I have a 56K Modem.  Jan