Some sites won't load on my PC

[HamalSharatan]

Hello, I am not too sure if this belongs in this forum, if not my apologies and move it to the proper forum.

My problem is that I can't open anymore some sites on my PC like g4tv.com, usercash.com, lix.in or anonym.to.
In my house there is the main PC downstairs connected to a Linksys router (apparently, they block certain sites without permission). On the main PC I can open these pages just fine, it is on my PC that I can't open them and I haven't found a reason why. While I use mainly Firefox, I have also tried these sites with Internet Explorer and still they won't load so I am guessing it has to do with the router.

I use Firefox with AdBlock Plus, NoScript and I have Comodo Firewall and Avast free version. I have tried marking Firefox.exe as a safe application on these programs, I disabled the router's SPI firewall, and these pages still won't open

I tried pinging g4tv.com and I get "request timed out." I am really running out of ideas. What could possibly be the reason I can't open these pages on my PC, but they open just fine on the main PC.
If anybody knows anything that could help I'd appreciate it.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I'm confused. You say that from 'my' PC you cannot open them, but on the 'main' PC you can. But you go on to say that the 'main' PC is connected to the router, which you suspect - and yet it's the 'main' PC that works, so how can it be the router?

Can you clarify your setup?

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[HamalSharatan]

Hi Dan,

Sure. We have a PC downstairs (which I am calling main PC) and the DSL cable used to go on the PC ethernet port. When I got another PC for my room we got a router and so the DSL cable goes on the router now. The main PC is connected to the router by cable, but my computer is getting internet wirelessly from the router. Please, tell me if this is clear enough.

Well, I suspect it is the router because I did a search on google and there were some topics about Linksys routers blocking pages without authorization. So, that's why I suspect it must be the router.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

If both PCs are routing via the LinkSys, and one PC works, then it's unlikely to be the router at fault, surely?

You can prove this by connecting the wired PC via wireless or the wireless PC via wire to rule out the method of connection to the router itself, however.

Dan



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[HamalSharatan]

Today I tried this, I reset the router to its factory settings, and I was able to access those pages in my PC!!! And then when I enabled WPA I wasn't able to access them anymore. I think I might be getting somewhere.

 

[HamalSharatan]

I found the cause!! AES encryption was the one giving me problems, but I changed it to TKIP and all pages work! Who knew AES was so troublesome??!