First i'm sorry if this has been posted. I've read the THREADS and didn't see anything identical to mine.

Over the past two weeks I've lost most of my web abilities that require a LOG in due to a "page timed out" issue. I connect via usb tethering on my Iphone using a program called PDAnet. I have the newest version 1.54. OS is winxp PRO. My connection is 2.4 (according to pdanet).

Started w/Facebook, moved to gmail and has slowly progressed to any site that requires a log in. When it began i did the typical..

opt browser
flushdns/registerdns (even tho i connect via the iphone tethering i thought it a good try)
verified that the lac was disabled.
rebooted Firefox/pc
Nothing..
Tried IE. the only page that would load in IE was Google.
opt browser, restart. nothing.
ran maintenance on pc thinking it was a pc issue. Disk cleanup/defrag
reboot. still nothing.
Virus/malware scan. Nothing found.
did a restore to an earlier point i knew worked, nothing.

got really angry, backed up everything on a junk drive, formatted hard drive and installed a clean xp pro.

new mozilla
new IE (from xp pro of course)
New Google Crome
New Opera w/turbo.

nothing.

i lose a little more access each day. pages timing out. I can see my connection sending information but not receiving it.

Emailed facebook, thanks for nothing there. Facebook and other accounts work from a different pc w/different connection. All work from the Iphone itself. But when tethered it dies. Did connect last night to face book w/a proxy connection but it was TERRIBLY slow and allowed no interaction
so that's pointless.

Every setting in every browser is set to DEFAULT. Have disabled the firewall. Have not as of yet reinstalled Avast so it's not that. I'm at my wits end. Should I just give up the tethering or is there a work around? Or is this even my issue?

And now, even here when i tried to post, timed out. Dear God, can you hear me screaming from there??
This sounds more like the phone timing out rather than the browser...
Is this a laptop you are using ?

Have you checked PDAnet support ? ?I have contacted them. Sorry I didn't put that in the forum post.
Their response was that there is no reason that the application would stop responding but I was welcome to download and install the app to both the iphone and the desktop. Which i did, both before and after the reformat.

I've considered it's the phone timing out. Odd that it only does it on websites via the usb. I have no issues what so ever w/the phone itself.

I also failed to mention that my latest update for the OS is service pack 2. As you can imagine, When i tried to update, there was an unexpected error preventing me from the updating the software on the pc.

Thanks btw, for the quick response.

Just added..
I checked again tonight on cydia and there is a new release of the PDAnet there so i uninstalled it from the phone and installed the new release 1.61. Rebooted phone and tried to access a log in. No luck.