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What's wrong with my OS X web browsers?

What's wrong with my OS X web browsers?

My OS X Tiger machine's browsers often don't work. Usually the page just times out. If I clear the cache, then often it will work once, then fail again. Sites I view frequently usually fail to load ever, and sites I've never visited usually work fine. Sites that require cookies, logging in, etc (like SuperUser) never work at all. This has been ongoing for ~ a year. It does this with Safari, IE, Firefox, and Camino. I've tried making new accounts, but new ones also fail. It fails with both a WiFi and an ethernet connection. Safari will even show me a preview of the current page using its new preview page, but when it attempts to load the whole page it times out. My XP and Ubuntu boxes work like a charm. I am ready to reformat/reinstall OS X. Anyone have any ideas?

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Guest [Entry]

My iBook works now. I changed the router and all is good. I had an old Zyxel 802.11B router; I just got FIOS now and it worked immediately with the new router. Apparently the Zyxel works poorly with iBooks :(