Yes, I did try a hard reset. It was the router...
So now I upgraded my router to the Rev I. and guess what? The problem is back.
I have remidied the problem with my SSH connection by telling Putty to send a ping every 10 seconds to keep the connection alive. With Dreamweaver there is no option to do this in order to keep the connection alive. So after about 60 seconds of no FTP activity I have to reconnect. Instead of having a smooth connection it times out on the first try every time. So I have to wait 30 seconds and then try again, and it will connect that second time just fine. I can browse directories lightning fast and whatnot. But when I get to editing something for 4 minutes and then hit save it tries to connect... waiting... waiting... timeout... try again... waiting...waiting... timeout. Try again, good it connected... But as you can see I just did 6 minutes of "work" and 2 of them, or 33% of my time was spent trying to reconnect with my server.
This happens for all 10 servers with 10 different companies, some of them in other countries, most all over america. SSH works on the first try, however, unless I set it to ping every 10 seconds it will timeout and I will have to relogin again.
With my old router everything worked as it should. I connected to FTP or SSH and it stayed that way until I logged off. I could work for hours without having to wait all of the time. This has seriously cut into my ability to work from home as I cannot get anything done since I am always waiting for connections to restablish.