Internet Gateway Problem

[Guest]

hey, im having problems with my broadband connection and im running out of
ideas. I recently bought a new modem (as my old 1 broke) which has a built in
wireless router (Addon GWAR3000). Both my PC (connected by ethernet cables)
and laptop (wireless) are having the same problem. Things such as limewire
and games can conect to the internet fine, but IE and msn messenger wont.
When i try to open a site, the status bar says "connecting to site 1.0.0.0",
loads for a few seconds then goes to the "server cannot be found" error.

i activated Upnp and this has added a new network connection icon, an
internet gateway "Local Area Connection on Linux IGD", but the problems are
still there. I also ran a modem test about the connection to the internet, it
seemed to send things like "F2 end" and "F2 del", but i dont really know what
this means; this came up as failure, but how can it not be working if
limewire can download at high speeds?

A number of people have told me about proxys and ive tried a number of
things but to no effect. any ideas whats is wrong?

 

[Noel Paton]

Disable the proxy in Internet Properties first - you shouldn't need it.
Check with your ISP if you actually need a prosy - and set it up on the
router rather than the PC.


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