Interesting problem, konqueror will timeout connecting to MOST web pages eg google. however if i go to www.mozilla.org, it loads fine.

Other programs have no issues trying to connect to these web pages (ie curl), only konqueror.

Further more if i ping a web server and then connect to it using konqueror but use the IP rather than the URL then it works fine too.

I thought reinstalling might help, but i reinstalled and the problem persists. it also is present for all users, including root.

The only thing that has changed is the router has been replaced, we were using a software NAT router but now have purchased a hardware DLINK NAT router.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.