2 workstations won't connect to most websites, but will connect to some

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Published on 2011-06-27T05:58:47Z Indexed on 2011/06/27 8:24 UTC
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I have a very frustrating issue I wasn't able to solve: 2 workstations which are used by the same user are not able to connect to most websites receivin a timeout, however they will load some websites specificly from my country. They are able to get the website addresses via DNS. Both stations have their internet connection through a remote router. Other stations in the same LAN are connecting fine.

Here's what I tried:

Virus scan
Renewing IPs
Reseting the workstations
Moving one workstation to a different RJ-45 in the wall
Reseting the hub and switch
Checking the hosts file
DNS flush

Nothing seems to help. I am preparing a CD with more AV tools to see if there's anything hiding on the stations.

UPDATE: It was an incorrect configuration in "Internet Options". I configured the correct proxy and now it works.

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