I need help with connecting my internet

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Strangest problem ever.... One day I come home and my computer didn't work on the internet. Thats it. It just stopped working. Weird thing is, my Dad's computer works on the same internet line (Comcast, and we are connected by a router).

Naturally I thought it was my computer, so I tried hooking it up to my Dad's internet port... didn't work... I reformatted my computer.... didn't work.... I went out and bought a new ethernet card.... didn't work.... I called the ethernet card's customer service.... didn't work... I've played with just about every single setting possible on XP pro and nothing worked. I've gotten 2 of my smartest computer friends to help me, but they couldn't figure out whats wrong.

Please help!!

Computer stats:
P4 2.
Sound Blaster Audigy
Radeon 9600, 128 meg
Soyo Dragon 2 Lite (Not sure about that one -- its the motherboard
Anything else you guys need to know, just tell me and I'll fill ya i

Thanks in advance!
 
Hi,

Many spy and ad programs can interfere with proper connections. Download
Adaware on another system from www.lavasoft.de and copy to CD. Install it on
the non-connecting system and run it. After, retry connecting. If
successful, update Adaware and do it again.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone



SamuraiPanda said:
Strangest problem ever.... One day I come home and my computer didn't work
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on the internet. Thats it. It just stopped working. Weird thing is, my Dad's
computer works on the same internet line (Comcast, and we are connected by a
router).
Naturally I thought it was my computer, so I tried hooking it up to my
Click to expand...
Dad's internet port... didn't work... I reformatted my computer.... didn't
work.... I went out and bought a new ethernet card.... didn't work.... I
called the ethernet card's customer service.... didn't work... I've played
with just about every single setting possible on XP pro and nothing worked.
I've gotten 2 of my smartest computer friends to help me, but they couldn't
figure out whats wrong.
 
My guess would be your ethernet card is caput !


SamuraiPanda said:
Strangest problem ever.... One day I come home and my computer didn't work
Click to expand...
on the internet. Thats it. It just stopped working. Weird thing is, my Dad's
computer works on the same internet line (Comcast, and we are connected by a
router).
Naturally I thought it was my computer, so I tried hooking it up to my
Click to expand...
Dad's internet port... didn't work... I reformatted my computer.... didn't
work.... I went out and bought a new ethernet card.... didn't work.... I
called the ethernet card's customer service.... didn't work... I've played
with just about every single setting possible on XP pro and nothing worked.
I've gotten 2 of my smartest computer friends to help me, but they couldn't
figure out whats wrong.
 
Dido you checked the router configuration?
For some reason it may be bloking you either by PC name or IP address if
you're ussing always the same PC name or ip or maybe its just doing a
MAC filter and cause you're MAC isn't included maybe thats why.
Give it a check and see.
Hope that could help you.
C. Arruda
 
Well, I've had Adaware for awhile now and I just ran it again to make sure... no luck :

And Carlos, I have aboslutly no clue what a MAC filter is and how my router could do anything like what you have described... since all that happened was I came home and it wasn't working. I am currently using google to try and learn what a MAC filter is, but can you please educate me on what it is?

Thanks for the suggestions!
 
I look after a large hotel's guest internet network and I have experienced something similar recently....particularly on Dell machines. (I experienced somethig similar on Mac's as well, but that is a tale for a different time.

My guests can receive a DHCP address, release and renew with no proble and ping any device within the network except the default gateway(which is incidentally also the DHCP server, so I know it can communicate). I put in my own PC (IBM Thinkpad using XP) and have no trouble. All settings on the PC's are automatic

All gear is CISCO systems as is the server and there are no complex settings (yet) to the network

The weird part is this. I connected a hub between both my computer and the guest's computer and the switch port. I ran Ethereal (protocol analyzer) on my machine while trying to hit a website on the guest's machine(both by Explorer address bar or ping on the cmd line). His machine would try to resolve the URL using NBNS while mine would resolve using DNS (as normal). I compared every damn setting on both machines that I could find with the same settings on mine and I can't see ANYTHING different between the two

SamuraiPanda's problem seems to be the same as that which my guest's experienced today, but perhaps the details provided by me can help both of us. Is there some new (or old?) virus out there that I am unware of

Thanks to anyone that can help me


----- Carlos Aa wrote: ----

Dido you checked the router configuration
For some reason it may be bloking you either by PC name or IP address if
you're ussing always the same PC name or ip or maybe its just doing a
MAC filter and cause you're MAC isn't included maybe thats why
Give it a check and see
Hope that could help you
C. Arrud

SamuraiPanda wrote
 
MAC filtering is a feature of many if not all routers. Check your router's
manual for help. On my Linksys router, I have to type it's IP address in an
Internet Explorer address bar (where you normally type a web site address)
to access the settings. In my case the router IP address is 192.168.1.1.
The MAC address filtering is in the advanced settings. However, if you've
never heard of MAC address filtering, and you are the one maintaining your
home network, I doubt this setting has been changed. Although you might
want to check anyways. Sometimes I have had trouble accessing the internet
after traveling with my laptop and setting up a dial-up connection. Then I
have to remove the dial up to get the network internet connection to work.
I'm not sure if this is your problem either. If you can try another network
card, do that first. I think it's your best bet. Good luck,

Jim W.
http://www.gatorgrad.com

SamuraiPanda said:
Well, I've had Adaware for awhile now and I just ran it again to make sure... no luck :/

And Carlos, I have aboslutly no clue what a MAC filter is and how my
Click to expand...
router could do anything like what you have described... since all that
happened was I came home and it wasn't working. I am currently using google
to try and learn what a MAC filter is, but can you please educate me on what
it is?
 
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