Date: 05/05/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software, web, google

I'm so glad I found this community =)

Last Friday, I finally received the modem from my new ISP (Bell Sympatico DSL, if there are any Canadians out there familiar with it). I installed the modem on my laptop first, since we didn't have a long enough phone cord to reach to my boyfriend's desktop. Everything worked really well, the service was fast and there were no problems.

Then I installed the modem on my boyfriend's desktop, and hooked up a wireless router. Since then certain websites like Google, Gmail, Hotmail won't load for us at all. He's not having any problems sending or receiving email through Outlook Express, but I can only receive. I've checked all of my email settings, and they're all fine. Some sites are loading very quickly (livejournal is doing well, but a forum and my local newspaper are annoyingly slow)

Any idea what might be up? Mostly why certain wesbites won't load, others are really slow, and some are fine. I never had problems at all before I got Sympatico. I checked out their website to see if there was any information, but most of the stuff is decently useless. As is the "Net Assistant" that came with the software. I'd love to avoid calling customer support, becuase I'm moderately tech-savvy and I really hate being treated like a complete idiot over the phone.

Thanks in advance =)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/390345.html