Can't get email or News groups when connected to Linksys wireless-G router????

Thanks for reading this,
When I connect my desktop Win XP Pro computer to the Linksys
WRT54G router I get server error messages when I try to get my email
or search the news groups. When I connect the pc directly to the cable
modem by-passing the router there's no problem. Linksys told me to
set the MTU at 1492 but this has not helped. Surfing the net through
the router is no problem either wirelessly or hard-wired.
Thanks

Dave
N1RPM
Maine

Hello Dave,

Probably you have as mail/news server only "mail" and "news". If not using
a router, this is enough while windows will apend automatically the so
called DNS-suffix. When you are behind a router, often windows does not do
this. Go to a cmd-box and type "ipconfig /all" (without the qoutes). Mark
the DNS-suffix and add this to your mail and news server (in the account
section of the options).

f.e. DNS-suffix = abc.def.provider.com --> mail.abc.def.provider.com

Success Harrie

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> Thanks for reading this,
> When I connect my desktop Win XP Pro computer to the Linksys
> WRT54G router I get server error messages when I try to get my email
> or search the news groups. When I connect the pc directly to the cable
> modem by-passing the router there's no problem. Linksys told me to
> set the MTU at 1492 but this has not helped. Surfing the net through
> the router is no problem either wirelessly or hard-wired.
> Thanks
>
> Dave
> N1RPM
> Maine