Hi,
I'm the owner of a Gateway desktop, an xbox 360, and a macbook, which i've tried to set up all in one network in my new apartment. I have rogers cable connected to my modem, which is then connected to my vizio dual band HD wireless/wired router, and my macbook can connect to my wireless internet fine, and my xbox connects without a hitch via ethernet, but my desktop is causing me monumental problems.
I'm running windows 7 on it and i have the problem that it connects to a network with an ethernet cable (it creates two networks for some reason, Network 3 and an unidentified network, which seem inextricably intertwined), but it cant connect to the internet. The funny thing is that sometimes i can mess with settings and make it work, even managed to file share with my mac on the network, but if i turn off my computer, and leave it for a bit, then turn it back on, all my fixings go away, and i have the same connectivity problem again.
I used to have a similar problem when i lived at my parents house, every time i turned on my computer, it wouldn't connect to the internet right away, just to the network, but all i had to do was disable the local area connection, then reenable it, and it connected fine. it was a nuisance, so i just hibernated my computer all the time, which didn't make the fix go away, and just hoped that when i moved into my new place, this mysterious problem would go away. it has not :/
I am using my mac for all my internet needs right now, but i need the internet on my desktop asap as i am starting university this week. You can ask me any settings or specs you'd like, to help you solve my problem, i just didn't know which ones to post initially. I took a screenshot of the ipconfig command, if that helps, i'll post it. Please help
oh, p.s. i tried plugging my pc straight into the modem, not the router, and a similar problem arises. i am suspecting something windows 7 related as my culprit, because this is my first windows 7 computer, and it basically came packaged with this problem. *grumble*. technology... you can't live with it, you cant live without it
I'm the owner of a Gateway desktop, an xbox 360, and a macbook, which i've tried to set up all in one network in my new apartment. I have rogers cable connected to my modem, which is then connected to my vizio dual band HD wireless/wired router, and my macbook can connect to my wireless internet fine, and my xbox connects without a hitch via ethernet, but my desktop is causing me monumental problems.
I'm running windows 7 on it and i have the problem that it connects to a network with an ethernet cable (it creates two networks for some reason, Network 3 and an unidentified network, which seem inextricably intertwined), but it cant connect to the internet. The funny thing is that sometimes i can mess with settings and make it work, even managed to file share with my mac on the network, but if i turn off my computer, and leave it for a bit, then turn it back on, all my fixings go away, and i have the same connectivity problem again.
I used to have a similar problem when i lived at my parents house, every time i turned on my computer, it wouldn't connect to the internet right away, just to the network, but all i had to do was disable the local area connection, then reenable it, and it connected fine. it was a nuisance, so i just hibernated my computer all the time, which didn't make the fix go away, and just hoped that when i moved into my new place, this mysterious problem would go away. it has not :/
I am using my mac for all my internet needs right now, but i need the internet on my desktop asap as i am starting university this week. You can ask me any settings or specs you'd like, to help you solve my problem, i just didn't know which ones to post initially. I took a screenshot of the ipconfig command, if that helps, i'll post it. Please help
oh, p.s. i tried plugging my pc straight into the modem, not the router, and a similar problem arises. i am suspecting something windows 7 related as my culprit, because this is my first windows 7 computer, and it basically came packaged with this problem. *grumble*. technology... you can't live with it, you cant live without it
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