Broswer Googles EVERYTHING

Hey!
We've tried everything: Internet Explorer, SBC Yahoo browser, and Mozilla Firefox, to try and find the problem with all of our browsers. Sometimes, you can just type in a website and it'll load flawlessly. Other times, you enter in, for example, http://www.youtube.com/ and it brings up a Google or AIM Powered Google search of that URL, instead of just opening the site. And even then, we click on the link to the website and it takes FOREVER to load...an error page saying something like 'Not Connected to the Internet' or something like that. Sometimes refreshing fixes it, but othertimes not.
We've tried OpenDNS, and that improved stuff a whole lot, but it's still not flawless.

Also, is there a way we can get a Gigabit connection on an XPS 400 instead of the 100MB/s connection?

Well you really never get 100MB unless you have a really really killer connection which would cost a bit a normal connection is usually between 512 kbps to like 40 Mbps (64 KBps to like 5 MBps) with the dial up being under 56 kbps

Oh, okay, then ignore the Gigabit question.

Ethernet speed won't affect anything if it's your service provider holding you up. Sorry

maybe your connection says its connected but isnt .
i had trouble 2 days ago infact, my laptop said i was connected but when i clicked on my browser, it said you're not connected when i was!

i tryed again 2 hours later and it worked.

I know, that's what it's doing to me, but almost all the time.

Are you connected through a router? Make sure that the connections are all good there.

I wouldn't know what to look for... I'm no good with modems and stuffs. Just the computer hardware