On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:58:23 -0000, "Acro_d" <acro_d@tiscali.co.uk> wrote
in <455236fd$1_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>:
>"John Navas" <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote in message
>news:dpc4l21epc0c9dpafaq5orc5fcs3pfgdki@4ax.com.. .
>> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:10:36 -0000, "Acro_d" <acro_d@tiscali.co.uk> wrote
>> in <45522bed$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>:
>>
>>>This has me totally perplexed. I have a small home network with a central
>>>Belkin wireless ADSL router, and 2 computers connecting via Belkin USB
>>>wireless network adapters. Everything works fine except that on one
>>>computer Internet Explorer doesn't work over the wireless network. I use
>>>Firefox so this isn't really a problem, but on occasion I have to use IE
>>>for
>>>websites not Firefox friendly so am keen to try and sort this out.
>>>Everything else works, the computer with the problem connects to the
>>>network, email, Firefox, MSN all work, it's just IE that is the problem.
>>>If
>>>I connect a modem to the computer or use a network cable then IE works
>>>fine
>>>so it's definitely wireless related.
>>>
>>>The computer with the problem is a quite old Pentium 3 running WinXP Home.
>>>So far I have tried the following:
>>>* Different wireless network adapters
>>>* Disabled and reset Windows firewall
>>>* Updated IE6 to IE7
>>>* Numerous attempts at trying/changing network settings on both the
>>>computer
>>>and router
>>>* Tried both the Windows zero config and Belkin utilities
>>>* Run IEFix from http://windowsxp.mvps.org
>>>
>>>I can get IE to look at local files on the computer, i.e. c:\, but nothing
>>>else works, if I try to load a webpage it just sits doing nothing, not
>>>even
>>>an error message. Any ideas?
Does it work with a raw IP address? Try
http://66.102.7.147/
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