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| Thread ID: 86106 | 2008-01-03 20:54:00 | Accessing the internet | jno (12040) | Press F1 |
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| 627217 | 2008-01-05 19:59:00 | also check to make sure the proxy settings aren't enabled | Greven (91) | ||
| 627218 | 2008-01-05 20:31:00 | Incidentally, my ISP is Inspire Okay thats why telstra's DNS servers wont work - this wasn't mentioned before. Since you had Clear net on dial up, every one will have assumed it was clear on broadband as well. Mind you you should still be able to ping Paradise, no matter where you are or who with. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 627219 | 2008-01-05 22:41:00 | As I see it, and I may be wrong, if you have 2 or more pcs connected via a router to the internet, then the router is the crossover point between the Wide Area Network (internet connection modem etc) and the Local Area Network (router pcs laptops etc) Thus all WAN addressing is in the modem/router and all pcs laptops etc use only LAN addressing ie 192.168.x.x The allocation of LAN ip addresses to each pc connected is by DHCP in the router so all connected devices should be set to Obtain Ip Address Automatically and as I understand it there is no DNS in a simple LAN setup because this is a WAN concept, so Obtain DNS server automatically should also be set If you set a static ip address in one connected terminal on a LAN you must set them all as static and unique and disable DHCP in the router or you may get confilicting addresses. Here's a thought, if you have a laptop connected to a router which allocates an ip address of 192.168.0.2 ie the first address after the gateway address, the chances are that it will connect to the internet OK. If this address is set to never release and you then connect another device and give it a fixed address the same as the first, do you get a conflict error message, or does it just not work? If I can find time today I may experiment along those lines on my network and see what happens. |
jinja_thom (4306) | ||
| 627220 | 2008-01-06 03:40:00 | Reading through Jinja's post - what is the IP address of the laptop that is working OK on the internet. It will be 192.168.? & what is the IP of the PC thats not connecting to the internet.? 192.168.0.? The router if its assigning the IP's automatically should be giving the router 192.168.0.1 ( gateway) and assigning each PC a different address ( last Number) between 2 - 254. Run those programs I posted before to repair / rebuild the TCP/IP Stack. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 627221 | 2008-01-06 08:17:00 | Oh dear! I don't seem to be making much progress . I typed in the netsh int ip . . . etc noted in post #27; I still can't connect either Mozilla Firefox or Eudora to the internet and now when I right-click on "Wireless Internet Connection 3" and try to access Properties I get the message "An unexpected error occurred" . Incidentally, I accidentally typed the netsh etc . in the black window on this computer, but it doesn't seem to have had any adverse effect - thank goodness! How do I find the IP addresses of each computer? |
jno (12040) | ||
| 627222 | 2008-01-06 08:25:00 | easiest way is to click Start>run> type in CMD in the black box type ipconfig Press enter. The top address of 192.168.0 ? will be that computers IP. The last numbers are the ones we want to check out under it you will have something like Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 Gateway 192.168.0.1 Did you try the winsock fix on the PC thats not accessing the internet ? Dont try these on the Laptop - if it ain't broke - dont fix it :) Hope the croquet tournament is going well. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 627223 | 2008-01-07 00:41:00 | Hi wainuitec and Speedy Gonzales - hereinafter referred to as WT (much shorter!) and Speedy Gonzales (SG) . I had done this (i . e . typing in ipconfig) but thought that the IP address was of the router . For the PC there was an interesting window - after the netsh int ip . . etc . exercise . It said: Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 3: Connection-specific DNS suffix: Autoconfiguration IP Address: 169 . 254 . 40 . 165 Subnet Mask: 255 . 255 . 0 . 0 (yes, only two "255"s, not three) Default gateway: . . . i . e . no entries against either the first or the last item on the list . So, reviewing the various postings I noticed SG's posting #30 in which he recommended a couple of new addresses for the DNS primary and secondary server addresses . So I put in the Autoconfiguration and Subnet mask addresses as above along with the default gateway address of 192 . 168 . 0 . 1, and SG's two addresses . Still no joy! WT Re the Winsock fix: how do I download it on the PC if it's not accessing the inernet????? Could I download it on this laptop and then transfer it to the PC - e . g . by using a thumbdrive? Thanks for the good wishes for the croquet; my partner and I won the doubles (played on Saturday and Sunday) in the Palmerston North Combined Croquet Clubs tournament and today we started on the singles . I am able to attend to this computer problem now - i . e . at lunchtime - as I have a bye, so have come home to have another go at it . Incidentally, what is meant on the "PressF1" list of postings against this thread when it says "Last page"? Are we allowed only so many pages of postings to the thread? If so, what do we do to continue the discussion? Start a new thread? |
jno (12040) | ||
| 627224 | 2008-01-07 01:14:00 | Incidentally, what is meant on the "PressF1" list of postings against this thread when it says "Last page"? Are we allowed only so many pages of postings to the thread? If so, what do we do to continue the discussion? Start a new thread? No worries there mate - "last page" just means the link jumps to the (current) last page of the thread, even if it's at page 999906 So you still got plenty left for the discussion :D :thumbs: |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 627225 | 2008-01-07 03:05:00 | WT Re the Winsock fix: how do I download it on the PC if it's not accessing the inernet????? Could I download it on this laptop and then transfer it to the PC - e.g. by using a thumbdrive? yep thats correct - load to a pen ( or what ever you want to call it) USB Drive and transfer that way. Its interesting the Address was lost after netsh etc - the address of 169.254.40.165 (which is windows saying " I got no connection) the 169 is the default for no working IP. Run that winsock and see if it fixes it. Hope this makes sense - but it looks like it was partly broken - the TCP/IP stack, that command finally broke it - which is good - Now that its broken at least once it gets going again, it should hopefully work like its meant to. Winsock should rebuild it completely. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 627226 | 2008-01-07 03:27:00 | If you have XP and SP2 you don't need to download the winsock fix. Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt. Type in: netsh winsock reset catalog Enter and restart computer. Why not connect your modem/router direct to your computer using ethernet, use a phone extension lead if it is not convenient to move the computer closer to the ADSL modem/router. This will at least isolate whether the problem is with your wireless setup or if it is a computer problem by bypassing the wireless router altogether. |
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