Recently I changed out my G router for a N router. I have a laptop and a desktop. The router is a Netgear. My desktop has a wired connection. My laptop has the ability to have both and since it spends most of its time in a nice docking station on my desk and very little time off the desk I wanted to use a wired connection from the laptop also. If I move the laptop to another room I would just turn on the wireless. I also transfer very large video files from one computer to the other and wanted the best speed. Well the wireless works fine but the wired lan card built in will not go out to the internet. It will show it its connected at the proper speed though. I have tried everything I know of. I did notice some interesting things. At first in the router software where it shows connected devices, it showed the lan card but only the id number. No ip address for it. I then pulled the lan card up on the laptop and the ip address it had in properties was some weird one. Not the actual 192.168.1. whatever that the router should assign it. I then updated the realtec drivers. What that did was let the router give me a normal router assigned ip address. Still no internet connection. I then did the whole turn off everything and restart everything. Again the laptop nic card had a weird ip address. I did the repair and it gave me the normal 192.168. whatever address. Still no connection. Im lost here. I know it worked a couple of years ago because I had both wireless and wired working on the laptop. The little lights where the cable plugs into the laptop show one flashing green one and one brown one. Any help would be so greatly appreciated. Thanks so much. Tom

One correction. The router is not N. It is a rangemax router that extends the coverage of G.