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Good ping but can't browse or download from servers

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jlambvo

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I'm connected to a shared cable connection via USB 802.11 adapter. It's been working fine, but a few days ago I started getting this odd problem where is says I'm connected to the router with excellent signal strength, and I can ping WAN addresses just fine (39-50ms), but can't seem to recieve data.

Opening Firefox, Google will actually appear to load just fine... but then any attempts to perform a search or connect to a different site result in a constant "waiting for www.url.com" until it times out. It seems to resolve names just fine but the connections hangs when it comes time to load. Same with AIM and FTP connections.

Sometimes if I let it sit, a few bits of data seem to get through and a page might partially load. Once I managed to get Anandtech's homepage to fully load.

Everything seems to work fine on my roomate's systems, and I don't have a personal firewall on. I'm not sure where to start with this 🙁
 
-Start by power-cycling the router. Then reboot your PC if you haven't.
-You said you disabled any personal firewalls. Double check you have.
-Can you surf by ip address? You said you can ping your wan address, which is usually an ip. http://66.94.230.52 should bring up yahoo's homepage. If so you have a DNS problem.
-Did you run any spyware cleaners before this happend? If so there's possible socket damage. You should be able to dig up a winsock exe file that'll repair your socket layers.

Let us know how it goes.
 
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