[heath]

hello, i have broadband with vriginmedia/ntl and have setup up a netgear wpn824 wireless router wired to my ntl modem and pc and a netgear wg511 card for my laptop. Everything is almost there, ive setup the secuirty, mac, ssid, encryption and its works most but it sometimes won't connect to the websites or fails to load it even after having been working for a while. It can occur randomly and sometimes some sites will work but others will not. Other times i have to hit refresh a few times to get it to work. Sometimes i have to wait a few minutes.

After contacting netgears online support and phone all they could suggest was chaning the mtu and disabling spi, mtu was 1500 but i've played with 1400, 1350, 1300, 1250, and 1200 but still it will fail on sites from time to time. I've also tried router resets and reloading the lastest firmware. And changing to wep from wpa or off.

I then was advised to ring netgear to which some muppet tried to say my router sounded faulty even though its only the web browser that drops and not MSN, skype, bit torrent etc. They will stay on constantly, the laptop will connect to other wireless networks trouble free so the router issue is causing the websites on the latop to fail also.

Is there anything else i can try as i don't accept its broken when its only niggles. I heard about DNS settings could be do blame, whats this? Any suggestions? What do i try? thanks