Gaming/E-mail Problem, although web browsing works

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I have a somewhat large knowledge of networking (a decent amount of Cisco training), but the problem that came up to day has me stumped. (I have only been working on it for a couple of hours, so I know that I could have missed something that is ridiculously simple, so please feel free to give me those kinds of suggestions as well.)   I came home this afternoon, and I could not access the internet wirelessly from my Linksys WRT54GL router and Comcast service. I worked with that for a little bit, and figured out that the cheap cable that someone bought was not working any more. I put in a new patch cable, and then I was able to access the internet. I could open up all of my different web browsers and go to homepages/forums/Youtube/etc. I could not however get to my web based e-mail accounts. I also tried to start Steam to play Counter Strike: Source, and it was unable to log in... Ventrilo could not access servers and Xfire could not get logged in, either.   I did all of the repairing network connections, directly wiring the cable to the computer, etc. so I do not think that it is that basic of an issue.   I checked the firewall that I am using, ZoneAlarm, and it had exceptions for each of the programs... I then got rid of the exceptions and reentered them... then shut down the firewall for about 30 seconds to try that. It did not work, so it is not a firewall issue.   I tried to do port forwarding to my computer, but it did not help either, the same issue came up.   I think that I have tried all of the basics, but feel free to post what you think could possibly be the reasoning.   After all of that, I came here, searched for a half of an hour for something like my problem, but could find nothing, so I decided to post. :(   I will probably work on this tomorrow and get going for tonight, and with school, I will not be working on it for a while, and hopefully, I will have figured it out by then. Any and all help is would be greatly appreciated, though, and I hope that this will be able to aid anyone else who is having or will have the same kind of problem.     P.S.: I almost forgot to add that I also ran a bunch of virus, spyware, adware, and malware search tools, and my system came up completely clean besides a few tracking cookies (ads.doubleclick, etc.) which is pretty normal, so I am pretty sure that is not the problem.

johnnymac4242 · Answer

I was able to resolve this issue through router firmware and a few other updates. If anyone else is having this problem, just reply in this thread, and I can try to help out.

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