I hope that subject line covered it.

I recently changed PPPoE DSL providers (a telephone company) and have
been having trouble connecting to the Net since.

Here's the setup.
Laptop running WIndows XP, DSL modem (speedstream 5260), Netgear WGR614
v4 router with the latest (and only) firmware 5.0_07. DSL is PPPoE with
login.

Before the DSL provider switch, my connection whether direct to the
modem or via the wifi router was virtually the same. There was no
problem.

Since then, when connected via the router (wired to the router, not
wifi, though the wifi performance is the same) service has become
spotty.

Here's what happens. When I request a page, 9 times out of 10, I get an
error "Server not found" (this is in Firefox. Explorer behaves as
badly.) I then have to hit the Refresh or Try again button once or
twice, before the page eventually loads. You can imagine this is
annoying, having to refresh, refresh everytime one accesses the Web. By
the second or third try, I get through.

If I bypass the router and plug directly into the modem, the pages all
load first time, every time.
Rebooting the modem, router, and PC have not helped performance.

The only thing that has changed recently was the DSL Provider. None of
this was a problem before the switch.
I should note that the new DSL service is one of those "lite" services
(because I don't have big throughput needs.) "up to 512Kbps"

I have tried changing the router's timeout to 0 but that didn't improve
things.

Any suggestions?

if the problem is with the service (or the "Lite" aspect of the
service) I will change providers.
It seems strange though that when wired directly to the modem, all is
well, but with the router in place, the performance--even wired to the
router--changes so radically. I didn't understand that a wired router
connection could so degrade performance.

is there something about Lite that could cause this problem?

Many thanks