said by griz_fan :

Hi,

A little background. Up until yesterday, I had been getting my Qwest DSL paid for by my employer, by that program ended. I was on the 1.5Mb/s plan, so I signed up for Qwest DSL silver to get the same connection speed. Yesterday, a tech showed up at my house to re-wire the phone jack in my office. It had been a dedicated line for my DSL service when my employer was paying for it, but I wanted that phone jack switched back to my home phone line now that I was to pay for it.
Afterwards, I had to swap out DSL modems. The old Actiontec GT701 had to be returned, so I had it replaced with a M1000. Otherwise, nothing else changed. I now have the M1000 connected to a ZyXEL HS-100 router (firewall currently disabled in both). My main PC is connected to the router by a 10/100 ethernet cable, and I have two other computers connected by 802.11G, all running Vista.

Now, here's the problem. First, it only happens in Firefox 2. IE7 and Opera work fine. But in Firefox, I can no longer access any subdomains on Yahoo.com. www.yahoo.com works fine, by my.yahoo.com, tv.yahoo.com, sports.yahoo.com, etc... all fail with this error:

"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading"

Again, they all work fine in IE 7 or Opera.

Here's the trace route if that helps:

Tracing route to my.yahoo4.akadns.net [216.252.123.25]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1
3 * 27 ms 47 ms bois-dsl-gw08-200.bois.qwest.net [67.41.38.200]

4 27 ms 27 ms 26 ms bois-agw1.inet.qwest.net [67.41.38.189]
5 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms boi-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.155.1]
6 * * 35 ms slc-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.205.177]
7 54 ms 54 ms 54 ms svl-core-01.inet.qwest.net [67.14.12.58]
8 54 ms 54 ms 55 ms pax-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.214.38]
9 64 ms 64 ms 64 ms if-1-2.core3.PDI-PaloAlto.Teleglobe.net [207.45.
213.149]
10 64 ms 64 ms 65 ms ix-6-2.core3.PDI-PaloAlto.Teleglobe.net [207.45.
213.130]
11 88 ms 66 ms 65 ms g-0-0-0-p150.msr2.sp1.yahoo.com [216.115.107.73]

12 63 ms 66 ms 63 ms te-9-1.bas-a1.sp1.yahoo.com [209.131.32.21]
13 64 ms 65 ms 65 ms p1.my.vip.sp1.yahoo.com [216.252.123.25]

Trace complete.

Finally, my connection seems a lot slower than before, and most speed tests only show about 1/2 of my 1.5Mb/s download speed and none have been able to complete an upload test. And qwest support has, so far, not been helpful.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!