unable to access msn.com with Belkin Pre-N router

[timefreak]

Hi there! I have been having problems accessing msn.com on my wireless laptop. When attempting to access all I get is the status bar stalled at half or full percent and after 2-3mins I *might* get a part of the msn page to load with a few links and a little text displayed. I have no problems accessing any other page but this one and I checked that msn.com was not a blocked site in Internet Explorer. My wired desktop has no issues so I am wandering if one of my wireless settings on the router may be blocking msn homepage on laptop. any idea on what might be going on? Thanks a bunch.

p.s. hotmail.com works, but images linked from msn.com don't display but have x's.

router model : F5D8230-4 v2

firmware : 2.01.02

boot version : 1.00.00

[Swimmer]

Firmware upgrade??

http://www.belkin.com/support/article/?lid=en&pid=F5D8230-4&aid=5632&scid=222

Looks like the lastest version was released on 12/6/06..  Any chance that on the router a rule was added on the parental control to block msn?

[timefreak]

hi there swimmer!  thanks for the reply. I checked my auto-update feature of the router and it shows I have the newest firmware for my router version 2000(come to find out there are two versions of belkin pre-n router: V2000 and the standard one) I tried to upgrade with link above but it would not install because it is for standard version. parental controls were disabled. I disabled  windows & router firewall, norton, avg antivirus to no avail.  now a week and half later I decide to see if network card/router security settings are the cause. I changed my data encryption from AES to TKIP on laptop network card and left router set to TKIP+AES. voila msn.com now loads with no problem. I had also began to have problems with google and other sites past few days too.. that crazy setting was the culprit all along.       thanks for replying to my post bud and your help.  have a good day