Yep. I agree. I've seen this problem a few times.

If this is how he's connecting it's a fairly easy fix:

From: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/how-to-connect.txt

I) I can browse some web sites just fine, but others stall forever.



There is probably a buggy router or firewall between you and the Web server.

One possible workaround:  In /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf, find the line which reads:



	CLAMPMSS=1412



Try lowering the 1412 until it works (go down in steps of 100 or so.)  Each

time you lower the value, you have to restart your connection like this:



	adsl-stop; adsl-start



This should work around buggy routers which do not support Path MTU discovery.