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« on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 13:22:02 »

Right, I'm dog sitting at my parents house and I have bought my laptop. My laptop recognises the wireless internet connect here, picks it up and connects to it - its password protected but my laptop remembers the password and still connects. The password has not been changed since it last worked.

In effect there is no problem with my laptop picking up the connection, however - it wont load any web pages. All I get is 'You are not connected to the internet. Safari cant open blah blah blah because your computer isnt connected to the internet'

Its not the browser as I get the same with IE. Its not the connection as my dads laptop connects and loads web pages (hence how im posting this) from what I can see the connections are exactly the same on each laptop.

Its worked before, months ago and nothing has changed but it doesnt work now, anyone have any ideas?
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« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 13:25:08 »

Not getting an IP adress from DHCP? Does your laptop have a static IP assigned?
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« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 13:44:57 »

If nothing has changed at all (e.g. you havent put on a new anti virus that needs an exception rule etc) Right click on the wireless network, manually disconnect from the network then manually reconnect to it.
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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 13:47:03 »

If nothing has changed at all (e.g. you havent put on a new anti virus that needs an exception rule etc) Right click on the wireless network, manually disconnect from the network then manually reconnect to it.

No offence...

...but I'm not a retard! first thing I tried...
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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 13:57:34 »

Errr quickly off the top of my head...

Ok, your dad's laptop connects ok, so the link from the router out is fine as you've mentioned. It's either your laptop itself, or the link between your laptop and the router.

Step 1 - see if laptop can reach the router, or even better, your dad's pc.
On your dad's pc navigate to Run --> CMD --> Type "ipconfig". Note down the ip address (will look like X.X.X.X where X = numbers).
From your pc, navigate to Run --> CMD --> and type "ping X.X.X.X" (where X.X.X.X = your dad's ip address).

If the reply's get through, and the connection is up it will say something like below...
Reply from X.X.X.X


Step 2- If that works, see if your PC can reach the internet...
If that works, can you try pinging again but this time "ping google.com"

If that works, then its probably something silly on your laptop, such as under File you have "work offline" ticked or similar!!


If not... well if not, can you please post the output of "IPCONFIG" from both your dad's and your PCs? as that will probably give us a good idea. Can you run through that and let us know how you get on?? and what happens? People on here can probably help you more after with that info :-)  Pint
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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 13:58:04 »

No offence...

...but I'm not a retard! first thing I tried...

Sorry for suggesting anything you ungrateful fuckwit.

No offence.
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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 13:59:03 »

Have you run an ipconfig on both to check you have a valid IP address and the default gateway is the same?
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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 14:00:33 »

Have you run an ipconfig on both to check you have a valid IP address and the default gateway is the same?

stop asking sensible questions!!
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 14:03:26 »

Not getting an IP adress from DHCP? Does your laptop have a static IP assigned?

After a bit of a fuck around, I think it was this. I lost connection to both laptops for a bit and now its working again on both!!

Sorry for suggesting anything you ungrateful fuckwit.

No offence.

everyone in the whole entire world knows the first step to solving any computer related problem is to turn it off and on again...

Cheers for all the other (useful) suggestions.
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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 14:26:35 »

jjedmunds cancelled his account?!
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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 14:30:56 »

Look what you have done now DV!

I liked JJ, he was a sensible interesting poster.
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« Reply #11 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 14:34:44 »

hahaha.

what a twat.
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« Reply #12 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 15:05:09 »

hahaha.

what a twat.

You? or him? ;-)
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« Reply #13 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 15:07:33 »

definitely him.

To have such a sulk and delete his account over me telling him I'm not a retard is, quite frankly pathetic.

There could have been more to it than that but whatever.
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« Reply #14 on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 16:03:17 »

No offence...

...but I'm not a retard! first thing I tried...

I thought that was why you called yourself the special one
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