Got it up and working this morning. I have several layers of protection on my router / network. One is opendns which should have been overridden by manually entering my Comcast HSI DNS servers to the OBi110 network configuraiton. Today I put
talk.google.com on my white list in Opendns.
The following were blocked on the router:
TCP/UDP, all ports, L7: directconnect
TCP/UDP, all ports, L7: netbios
TCP/UDP, all ports, L7: msn-filetransfer
TCP/UDP, all ports, L7: pcanywhere
TCP/UDP, all ports, L7: radmin
also blocked were the following patterns:
analytics
hitbox
edge.quantserve.com
iv_drawAd
adserver
srv2.wa.marketingsolutions.yahoo.com$
wpad
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I'm undertain which of the above were the source of my connection issue, but will begin to try and better resolve the problem by identifying the specific cause. I'll report back once I have more information so this thread can be available to future users with similar connectivity issues.