Network problems

[dave feustel <dfeustel_(_at_)_mindspring_(_dot_)_com>]

I just upgraded to 3.9 yesterday and today I am having
severe network problems. This has been happening for the
past week, but is now much worse. Browser requests take forever
to complete, I can't ping verizon.com, traceroute doesn't
work through the new verizon dsl modem which assigns
a local address of 192.168.1.47 to my computer. The
modem has address 192.168.1.1. Here is some sample console
log showing the ping and traceroute problems.
I called Verizon technical support, but it is useless.
Any ideas about how to fix this?

Thanks,
Dave Feustel
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/home/daf}ping mindspring.com
PING mindspring.com (207.69.189.28): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 207.69.189.28: icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=80.915 ms
64 bytes from 207.69.189.28: icmp_seq=1 ttl=246 time=81.187 ms
64 bytes from 207.69.189.28: icmp_seq=2 ttl=246 time=80.871 ms
64 bytes from 207.69.189.28: icmp_seq=3 ttl=246 time=83.075 ms
64 bytes from 207.69.189.28: icmp_seq=4 ttl=246 time=82.433 ms
64 bytes from 207.69.189.28: icmp_seq=5 ttl=246 time=82.232 ms
64 bytes from 207.69.189.28: icmp_seq=6 ttl=246 time=81.964 ms
--- mindspring.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 80.871/81.811/83.075/0.780 ms
/home/daf}traceroute mindspring.com
traceroute: Warning: mindspring.com has multiple addresses; using 
207.69.189.28
traceroute to mindspring.com (207.69.189.28), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  dslrouter (192.168.1.1)  0.632 ms  0.601 ms  0.464 ms
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  smtpsvc8.mindspring.com (207.69.189.28)  79.695 ms *  105.213 ms
/home/daf}traceroute verizon.com
traceroute to verizon.com (192.76.85.245), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  dslrouter (192.168.1.1)  0.602 ms  0.555 ms  0.483 ms
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
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^C
/home/daf}


/home/daf}ping verizon.com
PING verizon.com (192.76.85.245): 56 data bytes
--- verizon.com ping statistics ---
170 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
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