Lost access to some websites

I have lost access to some websites that I regularly visit. The process hangs after the // part of the address. After a while I get this prompt: "Safari can’t open the page “http://www.faylib.org/”. The error was: “lost network connection” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message."
I've reported this bug twice to Apple and have discussed it with the library that operates the website. It sometimes crops up when I'm in a website going to another page; it loses its place and looses the connection.
I've tried access with the latest Safari, Firefox, and IE without luck. The problem seems to have begun after I installed Security Update 2006-004 on 8/2/06. I've tried turning off pop-ups, coming at the site from a search engine, and other angles. No luck. Any ideas?
iMac 17 Mac OS X (10.4.7) Dial-up

Since there appeared to be nothing wrong with my modem otherwise, I chose not to investigate replacing it. But I did solve the problem with substantial help from my local Apple dealer, MegaByte.
They suggested several things, but the one that did the trick was firewall protection. I had been running Norton Personal Firewall which was updated on 7/8 to v. 3.1. When I stopped it and reverted back to the Apple firewall protection, my fave website popped back up.

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Hi there!
I've searched all over the forums and the internet for help on this topic, but none of the solutions I've found prove to be anything more than false hope.
I have had this problem for 2 days now and it's driving me nuts! For some reason, I can't access my personal website (http://www.the-visionary.net) or the host (http://www.rigrag.com) but both are up and working. Friends can access it, I can access it at work, but I cannot access it at home. I've tried getting to both websites from multiple computers (a total of 4, plus an iPod Touch) and nothing seems to be able to access them which leads me to believe it's the included FiOS wireless router.
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