greyham433@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi. I have a router which is connected to my ADSL modem and one
> computer, and then another desktop with a USB wireless adapter that I
> have been using for a while now. Everything was great but then one day
> the computer with the USB adapter wouldn't connect to the internet. I
> can still connect to my network and get a good signal but I can't even
> ping 192.168.1.1 and packets are being sent but nothing is being
> recieved. Does anyone have a clue what happened because I don't?
> Thanks for the help,
> Graham
>
You can check the IP the computer has by doing IPconfig /all at the DOS
Command Prompt. If the IP starts with 169, then there was a timeout and
the O/S assigned the IP to the NIC.
The 169 IP will let the machine access other machines on the LAN, but
the IP is not going to allow you to ping the router nor will it let the
machine to access the Internet, since it's not using an IP from or on
the router.
If the 169 IP is there, then the O/S has to release the IP. You can
reboot the machine or use Ipconfig /release and IPconfig /renew to see
if the IP will be released. If it doesn't release, then you have to
reset the TCP/IP stack, which is based on the O/S type to get the O/S to
release the IP.
Duane :)
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