I have an XP Media Center desktop, LinkSys WRT310N V2 router, and a Notebook (Win7). Both the XP and W7 are wired into the router. My Droid phone connects via the router’s wireless.
Today, on the XP computer when I tried to go to some web sites, there was an automatic attempt to log into MySpace (which is on the web sites; ScienceBlogs and ZDNet). Logins failed. Then, I went to a blog and most of the blog entries had “Invalid URL” instead of the actual link. The W7 laptop had no problem; the Droid (2.2), connecting via the wireless, had same problem. A few days ago, I couldn’t reach nytimes.com, and only nytimes.com. Rebooting solves the problem. I tried “resetting’ the tcpip stack via netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt, but that doesn’t help. This problem has been happening with various manifestations for a while. I changed routers, also. All my anti-virus software says nothing is wrong. Again, rebooting solves the problem.
Update: Rebooting sort of helps but does not solve. Just now (about 1/2 hour after I rebooted), I tried to go to another web site and got a 404. When I tried this on my Win7 machine, no problem. Note: I can ping the unreachable site, but cannot get it via http.
Update 2: And with no further rebooting, the previously unreachable via http web site is now reachable.
I can’t figure out why the Droid’s wireless connection was similarly corrupted, perhaps by the XP. It’s all very confusing to me.
Any help is appreciated.