I just installed Ubuntu but for some reason I can't surf the internet. I can ping network computers, ping websites, and even download updates, but the browser won't load web pages. Any Ideas?

Try telnet to port 80 link

Do telnet www.google.com 80
When it tells you connected and gives you the escape character, type the following:
GET / HTTP/1.0
then hit [ENTER]
then [ENTER] once again.

You should see the HTML source in your shell being sent to you from Google.

If it fails at any of these points, let us know. This may help determine where the problem lies.

Ok I tried that, but it didn't work. The terminal window just sat there reading trying 1.0.0.0 and nothing happened. I typed in exactly what you have written.

It tried to read 1.0.0.0 on a www.google.com address? Sounds like a DNS server issue.

You said you could ping sites?

I can't help you, but I just got the Ubuutu CDs today! It was free and all, I tried the Live-cd version, no problems with networking. I might decide to install it later.

yeah it let me ping websites up the wazoo.

Try going to 66.102.9.147 in your browser, and see what happens.

went straight to google's website. What does that mean?

That means that DNS isn't working for you properly. What's in your /etc/resolv.conf file?

Well thats sort of wat I thought it was, so I double checked the DNS nubmers in winodows and in linux and they were the same. Its almost like it wont communicate with the DNS server because of my ISP. Here is a screen shot of the numbers in windows.

Image doesn't work...just put it on Imageshack.us or something.

Could this have anything to do with having an Actiontec (POS) router\DSL modem? Because Linux Red Hat 9 (Shrike) works fine. Which doesn't make sense because Fedora Core 3 is basically the same. And why would this matter in Ubuntu either? This is quite confusing to me. Right now Fedora core 3 is doing the same thing, and Fedora is what I actually want to dual boot to.