Maybe someone can help me

[slowpokemcgee]

So I have 2 computers in my house. A desktop, and my laptop. Over the past month or so, we've had an issue with Time Warner where our cable modem will reset itself many times everyafternoon and never come back online until at least 5PM. So Time Warner technition comes today to fix it, and does. But now the wierd part. Ever since he left, the laptop can't connect to the router, kind of. I can load yahoo and google.com and thats about it. Everything else either gets a "this page cannot be displayed" or a google search bar comes up with the website. The desktop and my xbox 360 have no problems connecting at all. Anyone know what might be the problem? Firewall isn't it. Time Warner ran me around in circles for 3 hours so hopefully someone knows.

[dasaybz]

Dude, power down the cable modem, unplug the router, and keep all your devices off. Power up the cable modem, wait for it to get synced, then power up your router, then power up your devices. If it doesn't work, then try doing an ipconfig/flushdns, and then an ipconfig/registerdns on the laptop. It sounds like a dns issue. If that doesn't work, then open a dos prompt, and try pinging websites ... ping www.google.com. If you can't ping it, then you have no connectivity to the modem via the router.

PM me if you need more help.

[35Pete]

Dasabyz.

What about ipconfig/release, then ipconfig/renew?

Same effect I think, correct?

He can also ping himself or do a tracert on his rig.

[Woody]

Nah... /flushdns clears your cached DNS entries. Comes in handy when the cached info gets dicked up or outdated. :niterider


But yeah... dasaybz hit it on the nose.. that's what I'd try first. Let us know what happens, Slowpoke. :niterider


Dasabyz.

What about ipconfig/release, then ipconfig/renew?

Same effect I think, correct?

He can also ping himself or do a tracert on his rig.

[Dontdieman]

So I have 2 computers in my house. A desktop, and my laptop. Over the past month or so, we've had an issue with Time Warner where our cable modem will reset itself many times everyafternoon and never come back online until at least 5PM. So Time Warner technition comes today to fix it, and does. But now the wierd part. Ever since he left, the laptop can't connect to the router, kind of. I can load yahoo and google.com and thats about it. Everything else either gets a "this page cannot be displayed" or a google search bar comes up with the website. The desktop and my xbox 360 have no problems connecting at all. Anyone know what might be the problem? Firewall isn't it. Time Warner ran me around in circles for 3 hours so hopefully someone knows.

Sounds like your laptop might have some spyware on it and keeps directing you to a fake yahoo site in a effort to gain personal info

[dasaybz]

If that was the case, then he'd probably have an entry in his hosts file.

[slowpokemcgee]

Well to update I just gave up on the laptop and am sharing the desktop now, but I noticed the other day that I can't even connect to yahoo or google anymore so idk whats up. I ran a diagnostic of the connection and it looked like the problems were within the DNS and http areas. Maybe in the next week I'll try to figure out the problem so stay tuned lol I may need some help.

[dasaybz]

check your laptop's network settings ... maybe you are using a bad IP address, or a bad dns address .... you may have them entered in statically

also, do you use wep encryption on your wireless router? if so, make sure you are using the right wep key

[slowpokemcgee]

I think I fixed it finally, I was just messing around with my IP and Gateway and stuff and now it works fine. Wow 2 months for one number, somehow my subnet lost a number, it was trying to connect with 255.25....instead of 255.255. I'm so relieved right now as long as it continues working

[GOBILLSGO!!!]

I'm sure you have your reasons to statically assign your IP's...but DHCP is pretty bitch'n ;)

[Victor7]

I cant understand shit !!