Serious Connection Problems

Okay, I have posted this a couple of times and sort of got helped but its not enough, I really want to solve the problem because the solution only kind of helps.
My problem is that my mac will not access certain websites. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to which sites load and which don't. The notable ones are sites like penny-arcade, adbrite.com, alexa.com, wikiafterdark.com, wannawiki.com.
Now when I say these sites won't load, I mean they are broken accross the board. They won't run in firefox, they won't run in Safari. Here is what I get when I try loading them...
Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.alexa.com
I get the same thing in Safari. When I ping the server in terminal I get...
PING alexa.com (209.237.238.100): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
I can't connect to these sites via SSH or FTP. My girlfriend on the other hand can connect to them from the same apartment wireless connection on her PC with no problem. When I went on vacation to Georgia and to Pennsylvania I had the same problem.
The one way I was sort of able to fix this was by adding a proxy. I connect through
sydney.cache.telstra.net
but this only helps with web traffic (and its crazy slow). The sites I run, wikiafterdark and wannawiki I can't access to update them via SSH or FTP, so this has become a huge problem. I know that the problem lies somewhere in my computer. It can't be a problem with teh router because the problem persists on different routers and on direct connection. It tells me it can't connect so fast that I am thinking it must be a problem in one of my config issues.
I lost my restore disks during my last move so I can't even reinstall. Please, someone I beg for a solution to this mess.

When was the last time this worked? And what changed
when things got weird?
Are these the ONLY sites you can't hit?
Can you FTP/SSH to other remote computers?
What happens when you enter the IP address for
alexa.com in your web browser? (bypassing DNS)
Do you have this issue when you connect to your
router via ethernet cable? (and turn off the built-in
airport).
Double-check your network configuration
(SystemPrefs).
Are you getting IP address dynamically? Are you sure
you're connecting properly to the CORRECT wireless
connection?
How about DNS server in that pane? If there's one
there, try removing it. If there isn't one, find a
local DNS server IP and enter that.
As far as proxy, I can't tell you.
"No route to host" when you ping is an indication of
some (other) basic settings that are screwy. Can you
get your settings back to default, and give us the
results?
I forgot to address some of the questions you asked.
Yes I have issue when airport is off and I have a direct connect. No, I don't have any DNS server listed. I would try using the local DNS but will that help if I still have the problem when trying to ping the server IP? How do you find a local DNS server?
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I'm bewildered as to why ever since Infinity was installed here, my upload speed is generally faster than my download speed. I'm not happy with endless Internet connection failures though am thinking that Vista is playing a large part here with its "wrong security key" and unending 'Local Only / Limited Connection' failures. I do miss my Netgear router and the ability to access a fantastic help menu and re-boot directly from the desktop without having to keep going up and down three flights of sdtairs to do so (I haven't been able to find out how toe access the BT Hub remotely.)
Above all though: I'm really tired of repeatedly trying to run freshly downloaded and installed BT Desktop Help software but getting no further than a blank page because the program has stalled.
If anyone has any advice / suggestions, other than to buy a carrier pigeon, that'd be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Thanks again to John and gg30340. Here's an update:
1) BT Desktop Help removed completely from this computer. The uninstaller itself mopped up everything, which surprised me. But anyway.
2) Bt Home Hub manager set up and working. Had to input serial number and create new password. All of this sounds fairly easy and would be if one had the device near the desk. But the idiots who built this property shoved the BT master socket inside the garage next to the door. Our two home computers are on the third floor. To ensure the wireless signal strength is OK, the Hub and Infinity module/device/whatever it's called are on a high shelf. It's a major job to even reach the darn things, never mind read the labels seeing as how the BT Infinity engineer was good enough to tidy up the cabling and make a very tight connection to the wall socket.
3) I had hoped to be able to back up the Hub's settings, seeing as the software provides for Advanced Settings / System / Backup. But not on mine (Hub 3.0). All that System allows is choosing which internet clock to define the accurate time. Everything else in System is just a pattern of short lines as if trying to indicate that there's some text there but it's invisible.This is now my second encounter with BT software which, for whatever reason, isn't functioning as it should on this PC.
4) Hub reset to factory fresh, according to BT guide.
5) Reset appears to have achieved nothing apart from requiring the password to be popped in again. After reset, it wasn't even possible to connect to the hub manager. Internet connectivity was eventually established for all of 30 seconds and then, gone.
6) Computer was shut down and then booted anew. Internet connectivity is still. . . dreadful. One minute everything's fine and then, literally,. the next minute a webpage won't load. Even opening the Hub Manager has taken three attempts, i.e., disconnecting from the Internet, re-connecting, failing, and trying twice more until success. Yet all the time these failures are occurring, the tray icon is showing a steady, unwavering green icon for Local and Internet access -- despite the fact, there manifestly isn't any.
7) Speedtest. net tests are actually showing upload and download 'trajectories' going slower and slower and finally halting at some point on the arc, then after a period of up to 30 seconds, suddenly becoming animated again. Speed test results with broadband speed checker UK and Think Broadband's checker are so at variance with one another, and with Speedtest, net, that it seems all three are using different technologies in pursuit of the same thing. Either way, upload speeds continue to be much, much faster than download speeds, a state of affairs I certainly have never encountered before.
8) Speedtest net tests taken in the past 10 minutes, with one test following on from its predecessor, begin at 8.24 down/8.88 up, followed by 5.24 down / 6.40 up, followed by a mind-numbingly lonnnnng 0.62 down / 8.70 up -- in other words, a continuous yo-yoin g of Internet connectivity to the pooint that it actually might as well not even be here (I've had to make five attempts just to get on to this forum. . .)
9) BT Speedtest will necessitate disconnection of everything downstairs and all boxes being lugged up here. This is actually going to require uncoililng tied-off cabling and hanging off a stepladder to do so -- though I surely can't be the only person in Britain who doesn't have a nice, handy BT master socket in their study or lounge. That said though: until we switched to Infinity, we *never* experienced these kinds of horrendous connectivity problems and never had need to unplug the Netgear router downstairs and bring it upstairs to connect directly to tjhe desktop PC so BT's own test could be run.
I'll just have to get to work dismantling stuff tomorrow. However, I have to say that after a factory re-set which has changed nothing at all, I'm beginning to think there's a problem with the BT line itself (hence why I'm happy to follow the advice here, though less than happy at the prospect of the messing about involved.)
Thanks, you two, for your patient help, and also for clarifying the situation re the three signal paths being shown on inSSIDer. At least I know that's usual now! And now, hopefully, when I press 'Post', I won't be faced with an endlessly spinning Firefox circle culminating in what may well be, or seem to be, the 57,938th time today of seeing "Page Not Found". . .

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I am trying to make a PHP MySQL on a remote server connection in Dreamwesaver CS3.
When I enter the information (host, user, password, etc.) and hit TEST, I get the following error message.
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I have not seen this particular problem described in other forum postings (although there are a LOT of postings on this topic!).
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Frank
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:43:02 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: PHP and MySQL Connection problem
I know you are using remote, but is your testing server on? if not turn that on and see if that does it. it just happened to me working on remote server and could not get mysql conn to work, until I turn on my testing (developer server), then I was able to connect to mysql and the tables that I created in phpmyadmin remotly was downloaded.
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