I understand firewalls very well. One thing that bothers me about all this is, many of the server ip's are not listed as Akamai. I see the connection in the NAT table and then the firewall drops packets to ip after ip for 5 or 6 min, as many as 10 different ones. As the abovenet response stated, there are thousands of servers out there. It is interesting at this point, not really a complaint, just rather a what is going on in my PC.