Turn on Outlook, internet dies and I have to reboot my router...except on vpn

tamerax

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As the title says, each time I turn on Outlook with Office 365, it kills my internet connection and I have to reboot the router. I can still login to the router admin and do a soft reboot. This kills the internet for all the computers on my network as well. The weird exception to this is when I'm connected to my work VPN, then everything is fine. Also, should be noted, it never did this at first...then started doing it randomly and stopped after a while...now a few months later, it started doing it again.

Is there some sort of weird port forwarding I should be using?

Here are my details:
Email is running through an Exchange server.
Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Router is a D-Link 857 - HD Media Router 3000..running latest firmware (1.04).

Everything is setup standard. No firewalls except the standard Windows firewall and the router is a really basic config with no QoS or port forwarding or DMZ.

Please any insight would be great! I'm wondering if just getting a new router will fix this but it seems so specific to be a burnt router.

Thanks!!
Corey