That's very weird. Are you sure you're not hallucinating? Just double-check... Make sure you're clean, sober and all.
Hotmail has been known to have that problem every once in a while (when it's busy nothing shows up at all), but I can't understand why it would have anything to do with the router. I'm interested in hearing anyone else's ideas here.
As for your craziness, I definitely know the feeling. When I start something with this router I find it difficult to stop (though I've had to.. many times... after spending upwards of 10 hours trying to upgrade the kernel and such to endless rebooting).