"The connection was reset"; cannot submit data (https??)

[harripix]

Merry christmas everyone!

I know it's a bit bizzare to be posting on christmas morning, but I hope you can understand the frustration driving me.

I recently installed Mint 14 from Windows 8, onto my netbook. However impressed I am with the OS, there is one problem which is fundamentally unacceptable, and I cannot figure out how to solve it (even after half a day yesterday browsing forums). My problem is, that whenever I attempt to submit information on some sites (e.g. logging into hotmail/couchsurfing and sometimes facebook, or even posting on this forum), I get a timeout message from firefox saying "the connection was reset". I get similar messages to this across all browsers, so this is not a firefox problem. There are also 4 other computers connected to this connection, all work perfectly, so this is not a problem with the connection, and W8 worked perfectly on the same netbook, so this is not a problem with the netbook.

I have even now "downgraded" Mint 14 to Mint 13, and the problem persists. I have tried clearing/deleting cookies/cache, I have made sure the firewall is not on, and have changed user data in about:config on firefox.

So why is this happenening??

I really like the way the OS feels, but if I can't solve this problem I'm going to have to ditch it. If you can help me, I would be happier than I am after eating my christmas chocolate!

Thanks a lot

Harri

[mank_in]

you can try change your DNS to openDNS or google DNS.

[harripix]

Thanks Mank_in, I just tried, but didn't help

[harripix]

Does anyone else have any suggestions?? I've also now tried Ubuntu and the problem persists, I've also checked the firewall for the network:nothing. Ae there any simple steps that I should be taking when I install a linux OS to get better internet?

[maXmo]

Same problem here. I also noticed there's no dns cache in linux at all so it fails very often with "can't find the server http://www... error message. The only guess is that the default connection time out is too small.