I have three computers and an x-box 360 all plugged into the same router and modem. 360 is fine, as are two of the computers. The third one can’t get to the internet. The first things I tried were switching the ethernet cable from 3 to 2, which didn’t change the fact that 2 worked and 3 didn’t, a restart, a cold boot, and swearing.
When I try Firefox I get an “Address Not Found” error, and when I try Internet Explorer I get a “The page cannot be displayed” error. All of this from bookmarks that worked fine this morning when I left for work, and some hand typed addresses.
I have been googling around and tried some stuff. I have a 192. other stuff ip address, I can ping everything brought up by an iconfig command and also websites by URL or IP address and it tells me that 4 of 4 packets sent were received. The diagnostic programs I’ve found in Windows all tell me that there is no problem with my connection, and I was able to update Windows earlier this evening when I tried that, but neither browser will bring up a website. Windows also says any of the hardware I can think of (modem, network card, etc.) is working fine.
I’ve run Malwarebytes, and it found nothing. I have deleted AVG, reset the winsock catalog, and tried restarting in safe mode and none of it’s working. Based on the fact that I kept getting a sound shortly after a restart that I associate with uTorrent, I uninstalled and deleted that too. There are no firewalls I’m aware of running, I haven’t added any software I’m aware of lately, and I’m out of ideas.
Granted, I don’t know what some of the above actually means, but I’m really hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
edit: Also, it’s not set to the same IP address as another PC or the X-Box, is it? Does your ISP require you to set it to an IP address? Most broadband providers want it set to DHCP, meaning it’s set to pull its own address.
I am sure I’ve turned Windows Firewall off. I haven’t touched the router, though I don’t know if it auto-updated. Everything else runs through it just fine.
I can ping by name and number.
Browsing by number seems to work about half the time, with the other half generating the same error as trying to use a bookmarked link.
Flushing the dns cache didn’t help. All devices are showing different IP addresses, and I believe the IP addresses are automated, as when I brought the last computer home I just plugged it in and it worked, no messing around with the connection details.