Fix
I ran into the same problem. Here is why that is happening. You followed musclenerd's redsn0w and jailbroke your 4.0 iphone 3g and then wanted to edit the N82AP.plist to allow multitasking and or home screen wallpaper. You installed openssh so you could ssh into your phone using cyberduck or any program like that. openssh is what onsets the issue. When you install openssh somehow it screws with all data connections (gprs,edge,3g,wifi) and you get the server not responding message. The root of the problem however is not openssh. It just came to my knowledge as I typed this reply that the problem is with redsn0w 0.9.5. and as of late Friday April 16 they released 0.9.5b2 which fixes that issue. I am going to try that and I hope it works. Updates momentarily as I try it...
0.9.5b2 works for 3g cellular data, but at least for me wifi is still not working. I think that data of any sort is far better than no data whatsoever so if you havent reverted to 3.1.3 and you need openssh on 4.0 then this is your best bet.