Maybe someone else has experienced this before ... for some reason, my wireless router (Linksys WRT54G model) refuses to conenct to the Google homepage or any other Google service. I can access any other part of the internet world but I keep getting the same "This page cannot be displayed" messege every time I try accessing anything related to Google.

It should be noted that this occurs when I use either IE6 or Firefox. I have both a desktop and a laptop using this router to access the internet and they both get the same error page when trying to access the Google home page (one wired and the other not).

When I log onto my university network from home, it works fine. It also works fine when I connect my desktop directly to the cable modem. I thought it was a problem with the router itself but I did reset the router to it's original manufacture settings and it hasn't changed the situation.

Also, it was all working fine barely 24 hours ago.

Any suggestions?

does your router have a cache?

I think so ... or at least I'm not sure how to check if it does.

Sometimes your browsers will CACHE and if they don't your ISP might. The usual thing suggested is attempt to use a Reload/Refresh in the browser since it sends a Refresh command to the ISP's internal Proxy.

Another thing that can occur is if you have stale DNS server addresses in your router. Afterall any Canonical domain name (i.e. www.google.com) has to be "Resolved" by the DNS server to an IP address, if the DNS address is stale it might mean the DNS server has dynamically changed (Large ISP's do this on occasion to attempt to deal with DNS spammers)

You'll either have to get your Router to Automatically configure the IP settings, or you will have to plug them in by hand. (Gathering you have access to the internet still, you should surf your ISP website for information on it's DNS addresses)

Actually, I found out last night that it was a problem with the ISP I'm currently registered with. A friend of mine had the same problem and he traced it to a problem with a router in Chicago ... so my network set-up was not at fault.

In fact, everything works fine now ... I guess my ISP finally got around to fixing the problem.

Either way, tnx all for your input

yeah, there have been major DNS issues the past two weeks. :(

i think that i will solve similar problems and exploits on IE, by installing mozilla

believe me, hackers dont do so much virus/exploits/whatever to mozilla, like they do to IE.

just my 2 cents on this :)