Netgear DGN 2000 Lan ports fried?

Hello,

Ok Ive had a netgear router for about a year, worked fine, real easy to set up, I had my pc and xbox hardwired and various laptops, wii ect wireless. I then went away to uni for 6 months, came home and my xbox live didnt work =s read around and apparently its quite a common problem with the dgn2000 to stop working with live, no explination, just go wireless so no biggy just didnt use live while I was home for a month or so. So Ive come back now for the summer and tried to hardwire my desktop to the router and it picked up the network and even said that I had internet connection but yet I couldn't load and webpages, nothing, not even a timed out or error page just looks like its taking years to load... firstly i thought it was the Pc so after about 4 hours of tinkering I gave up.

I then stumbled upon an article that said its quite common for the dgn2000s lan ports to just basically fry. As all the wireless connections in the house are working fine I thought this could be the reason, so i wired up the usually wireless laptop and again....saying im connected but nothing will load, same problem.

Basically what im trying to ask is does it seem feasable that my ports have fried and also is there anything i can do about this as im probs out of warranty? Am I just gunna have to use my live and desktop wirelessly - or alternatly shell out for a new router?

any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks