CAN CONNECT TO LAN BUT NOT ONTO INTERNET

[IPW]

Hey folks,

My family have a central router in the home.

Normally I connect through it - by direct cable or wireless - to the internet.

For some reason - my fiddling probably - while I can get on the LAN by both cable and wireless, I cannot get onto the internet.

The Router is fine. Others connected by cable or wireless have no problems. We have tried all we can think of with the router - which has no activated access controls - but I get no-where.

Would welcome any help.

Thank you

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

So the best thing to do (easy anyway) is reset the router back to factory. This is a good step as it get you familiar with setting up the router, security, and features.

However, on the affected PC, this may not fix the issue.
in a command prompt window (run->cmd) type

ipconfig /all

and check for odd numbers. Easy to do this on a working system as well and find numbers that don't match (expect physical address and Ip address)

 

[IPW]

Router perfectly fine. It is the PC that is the problem..

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

So do what I suggested and let me know what you find.

Also, you may want to disable any firewall you have on the affected machine just to test.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

This topic has been moved from the section Windows 7 to section Networking by Area51reopened

 

[IPW]

Best answer selected by IPW.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

ROFL at best answer.

 

[mrfaces]

Funny... I was cracking up when I saw that.
I wonder if that was intentional to be funny or he didn't mean to do that.