Cannot connect to Microsoft

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Ive suddenly lost the ability to connect to any Microsoft website?!?
Therefore, I cannot run Windows update etc. and a whole host of other sites (MSN, Microsoft.com etc.) are all inaccessible.
All other sites are fine (hence my posting this message), its just MS sites that will not work.

If I try to ping Microsoft.com I get the following:

Code:
Pinging www.microsoft.com [207.46.19.30] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 207.46.19.30:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

and if I try a traceroute I get this:

Code:
Tracing route to www.microsoft.com [207.46.19.30]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.123.100
  2    14 ms    14 ms    14 ms  217.32.85.122
  3    13 ms    14 ms    13 ms  217.32.85.161
  4    15 ms    13 ms    14 ms  217.41.172.21
  5    16 ms    16 ms    14 ms  217.41.172.142
  6    14 ms    16 ms    14 ms  217.41.172.38
  7    13 ms    14 ms    13 ms  213.120.193.97
  8    14 ms    14 ms    13 ms  core1-pos4-1.birmingham.ukcore.bt.net [195.99.120.1]
  9    17 ms    17 ms    17 ms  core1-pos14-1.reading.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.204.150]
 10    21 ms    19 ms    19 ms  core1-pos15-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [194.74.16.145]
 11    19 ms    20 ms    20 ms  transit1-pos3-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.9.234]
 12    19 ms    20 ms    21 ms  t2c1-p5-0.uk-eal.eu.bt.net [166.49.168.9]
 13    98 ms    98 ms    99 ms  t2c1-p4-0.us-ash.eu.bt.net [166.49.164.110]
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *
I cannot ping or connect by any IP address for Microsoft.

I am currently on a 2MB ADSL connection. My IP and DNS are assigned dynamically upon connection.

Any ideas on the cause of the problem and how I can resolve it?

Thanks
 
Figured it out.
The MTU was set too large on my ADSL Router. Set it to a smaller value and its working now (after setting it in the registry too!).

Thanks fellas :)
 
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