Hi,
Have you bypassed the router to see if it's the problem?

Try...
Turn on the Windows Firewall (from Control Panel or Security Center) and
disable the third-party firewall (if running) and other third-party
security, privacy, ad-blocking programs to see if one of them is causing
this.

Other possibilities- see if there's anything you haven't tried ;-)
IE- Can't display- DNS Errors: http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/16.html
IE- Download Problems: http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/40.html
870700 - How to troubleshoot problems accessing secure Web pages with IE 6
[XP] SP2: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;870700
(Many, but not all suggestions will be relevant)

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"gangadafunkymonkey" <gangadafunkymonkey[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:F7A5991A-3DE6-47E6-B05D-35A3E1DA634A@microsoft.com...
> I am running internet explorer 6 with sp2 on a windows xp machine. i have
> recently started using this computer again after being away for some time
and
> to my surprise i am unable to download many attachments from hotmail (jpeg
> Internet Explorer was not able to open this internet site. The requested
> site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.
>
> I have recently installed a linksys wireless network router. Both pc's
are
> experiencing the same problem. I have been trawling through the internet
> trying to find a solution for the last few hours but it seems many people
> have experienced this error message over the years, and there seems to be
> many different solutions, none of which seem to work. Can anyone help or
> seems fine). I get the error message:
>
> Internet Explorer cannot download xxxxx from 64.4.61.250

> point me in the right direction?