Recently I've been having an extremely annoying connection problem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Randomly, I will be unable to open new connections.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web-pages I'm viewing continue to load fine, IRC is still connected, as well as AIM/MSN. However if I try to open a new page, try to connect to another irc server, or try to reconnect to aim/msn (tried for testing purposes), it doesn't work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've tried resetting my modem, rebooting my router, doing an ipconfig /release and /renew *CON*. Nothing works; I have to restart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I get that too sometimes - restarting my pc and the modem seems to do the trick, but it is a pain. If anyone's got any insight on it I'd be very interested.