Connecting to the internet with hardwire.

[Guest]

I checked into a hotel and tried the use the hard wire to connect directly to
the internet, but had problems. My computer showed on the properties/status
menu that I was in fact connected and it showed the number of files sent over
the internet, but I still couldn't connect via Explorer. I received the
message no connection to the internet / you are not connected. Yet the
properties/status of my connection show "connected". I'm baffled! Can someone
talk me through how to correct this problem? It seems there is land line
connection to my computer but my computer isn't openning up to it. Does that
make sense??? "needing help".

 

[Benjamin Thompson]

"Couldn't" doesn't mean much.

When you tried to connect with Internet Explorer - what happened, exactly?
If there was an error message, what did it say?

Does the same thing happen when you try to connect using an IP address such
as 194.202.49.33?

If you try to use the 'ping' or 'tracert' commands in the command prompt
box, to communicate with a web site or an IP address, what happens?

Some hotel systems prevent you from communicating with the outside world
until you have entered a user name and password, or visited a payment web
page. Windows reports the connection as connected, because it is, but the
hotel's firewall intercepts all messages to the outside world!

 

[steve]

I think you got confused between the network connection and interent
conection. The status windows you saw is the network connection. It
means you are connected to a network and how many packets (not files)
was sent and recevied. You can check if you can access the interent by
open a DOS window (click start then run then type cmd and press enter).
on the dos prompt type ipconfig/all this will tell you your ip address,
gateway address etc. you can also ping some external address like
www.yahoo.com etc if it doesn't work you may have been blocked from
accessing the internet then thats not much you could do except ask
your hotel for help.