My router prevents me from sending gmail

[Muscles]

For some reason my router is preventing me from sending any gmail or other web based mail out. Sometimes it also prevents me from buying stuff online through secure servers and I haven't figured out how to fix it yet. It's a Netgear RP614 wired 4-port router (using the latest firmware).

The message the browser gives me when this happens is something like "Server didn't understand your request" or "bad request."

Any networking gurus here know what the problem is and how to solve it? All help is greatly appreciated.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Have you tried up/down grading your firmware?

 

[Muscles]

Well I installed the latest version of the firmware like I said in my original post but I haven't tried any others.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Muscles
Well I installed the latest version of the firmware like I said in my original post but I haven't tried any others.

It was kinda tucked in there.

Did it work before you updated to the latest firmware?

 

[Muscles]

I updated the firmware a long time ago before I moved. I just tried downgrading the firmware and I'm still having the same problem.

 

[terbolee]

Hope this does not offend...have you disabled ANY software-based firewall on your computer? If so, try the following:

1. Lower the security-level on your browser to say, medium
2. Allow cookies to be received, say, from Google

 

[nweaver]

This sounds like a client problem, more then a router problem. If it's not a software/client problem, then it may be physical (packets getting mangled on the wire) but that is very unlikely to work for most, but not SSL.