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Connection works but no internet
Name: G0liath01 Date: August 8, 2008 at 04:38:16 Pacific OS: XP Home SP2 CPU/Ram: 1.7ghz/ 1gb Ram Product: Dell Inspiron MXC051
Comment:
My laptop has a working internet connection as I can ping websites at the command prompt fine - but web browsers time out and won't load web pages. It used to work intermitently on wireless but always worked on ethernet.
I've reinstalled the network adapters and tried using Firefox, IE and Opera - no luck on any of them.
Name: guapo Date: August 8, 2008 at 05:59:57 Pacific
Reply:
Turn off the firewall(s). If that doesn't help, try using a static IP and a static DNS setting.
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: August 8, 2008 at 08:21:50 Pacific
Reply:
If you can ping a web site the firewall isn't the issue.
Start with doing your routine maintenance. update and scan for spyware update and scan for virus's run chkdsk /r from a cmd prompt, answer yes to the question and reboot so it runs run disk cleanup from the system tools menu run defragmenter from the same menu
How do you connect to the internet? Do you have a router?
Go to a cmd prompt and type ipconfig /all then post the results for review here.
Name: G0liath01 Date: August 10, 2008 at 05:10:14 Pacific
Reply:
Hello, Does anyone else have any ideas??
Thanks for the advice, but my spyware and antivirus are up to date and I don't think defragmenting the hardrive will help either.
It doesn't matter if i use wireless or ethernet i still have the same problem.
Does anyone else have any suggestions???
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Response Number 4
Name: pyrolitic Date: August 10, 2008 at 12:32:32 Pacific
Reply:
Do you know if your DNS is correctly set up. Your problem sounds like a DNS failure. If you run ipconfig, does it show IP addresses for DNS servers? Are they the correct IP addresses? Those addresses are provided by your ISP.
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