Unable to download, Connection Reset

Dell pc. Vista Home Premium

Hi,
Im running Vista Premium on a Dell laptop through a wireless netgear router
(DG834Gv3) which is connected to Sony Vaio (XP) via an ethernet cable.
Problem is that I cant download onto the Vista laptop. I get the error
message *the connection to the server was reset *. Surfing and instant
messengers work fine however.
I have contacted netgear and they suggested...upgrading router
drivers...downloaded from their site...which i did and it downloaded fine.
Any advice as to why it downloaded from their site and yet I cannot download
anything else?
Any help appreciated. Thank you.

I have exactly the same problem and have tried several workarounds
none of which have worked. I have got this message even when
downloading from Microsofts Download website. I have not been able to
download Any Torrent client software either so it seems to be an
across the board problem. I will keep looking around though for a
solution any one else have this problem or a suggested solution ?

Cheers

[palmerlarryray]

Believe it or not I found a solution to this. i went into the setup page for my router and set it up as an access point and voila, everything that has been terrorizing me for the last three weeks works perfectly. If anyone can find a way to do this without using router as an access point I am all ears but for now I am willing to sacrifice a bit of bandwidth to my neighbors..lol