Problems accessing certain Sites

I've been having problems recently accessing certain web sites. What is strange about this is that every now and again when I try to access these sites they will be accessible without any problems, but other times they won't show up at all. What's more is that sometimes, I'll only need to reload the page to get it to show up correctly and other times I'll have wait a while before trying again.

Also, some of the pages will be accessible but won't show up correctly, as if parts of the information did not reach my comp. I've been having this problem in both IE7 and Firefox so I'm pretty sure it's not a browser issue. Also, the sites that I have a hard time accessing are rather popular and as such I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the sites' servers. This problems happens mainly with Google, Hotmail, Wikipedia, Youtube and Yahoo. I have absolutely no problems accessing GFF at all, thankfully.

I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with spyware since I run checks regularly and with several different programs and they all come up clean.

The error page that shows up is your standard "Firefox/IE cannot find the server requested".

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as this is starting to be quite an annoyance.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I am in fact always in the same place and on the same hardware, I'm using a desktop computer and the router is a Siemens Speedstream 6520 so I imagine that last bit doesn't apply in this case.

The issue is frequent enough for it to be quite annoying. I pretty much can't check my email without having to load up both firefox and IE in hopes of being able to get Hotmail to load correctly in one of the two (sometimes both work, sometimes only one of the two and sometimes neither work).

I've been having this issue for a few weeks now and the only thing I've done that I can think of that could have caused a problem is that I used Spybot S&D's immunization feature. However, if I recall correctly, I did that after this started so that probably isn't it. I might have also updated java, but I'm pretty sure I did that a while before this started happening.

If it helps, I usually have both Spybot's Teatimer and Mcaffee VirusScan Enterprise + Antispyware Enterprise 8.5.0i running, but I have been for quite a while now (at least for the last year, way before this started). I set-up a static IP address for torrents and whatnot, but that was also quite a while ago and I'd never had this problem until the last few weeks so it would also be surprising if this were the cause of it all.

By the way, thanks for the quick reply!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Thanks for the tips guys, I'll try and test each of your suggestions out and see if I can fix this thing. Unfortunately for now I don't really have access to another computer that I could test out my connection with, so that will have to be the last thing I check if everything else fails. I'll post back if I figure it out, as it may help others who eventually run into this problem to know which programs or features might cause this.

Thanks again!

Edit: It seems it was the static IP that was causing the problem. I have no clue why it only started recently doing this since I've had it setup that way for at least a year or two, but at least I've fixed it so that's all that matters really.

Strange though...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah, my current ISP doesn't exactly have the best record for customer satisfaction, but we get our internet in a bundle and I don't really feel like going through the hassle of shopping for ISPs, but I'll certainly look into it in the future.

For anyone wondering, I'm in Montreal and my ISP is Bell. Try to avoid it if you can!

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