Now what have I gone and done!
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Thought I would try and be clever and remove old software from my desktop PC - which all went fine (I removed all sorts of rubbish that I had collected over the years). I also decided to clean-up my hard drives, using the Disk Cleanup routine in Windows. I also defragmented one of my drives (it wouldn't let me do the other one for some reason).
Anyway, the long and the short of all of that (which seemed to go without a hitch) is that I have somehow broken my internet connection (I am writing this from my work laptop - connected to the same wireless router, so that is still working at least).
* My desktop is connecting ok to the wireless network but will not serve any web pages - I get the usual "The page cannot be displayed" message.
What have I done? Can anyone suggest some tests/routines/checks to see what might have happened.
Thanks (and confused).
Gixxer
Anyway, the long and the short of all of that (which seemed to go without a hitch) is that I have somehow broken my internet connection (I am writing this from my work laptop - connected to the same wireless router, so that is still working at least).
* My desktop is connecting ok to the wireless network but will not serve any web pages - I get the usual "The page cannot be displayed" message.
What have I done? Can anyone suggest some tests/routines/checks to see what might have happened.
Thanks (and confused).
Gixxer
hut49 said:
Try this:
Go to Start...Run...type just the following three letters cmd and hit enter. Where the cursor is blinking type the following ipconfig /release and hit enter. Then when you're back to the blinking cursor type ipconfig /renew
Go to Start...Run...type just the following three letters cmd and hit enter. Where the cursor is blinking type the following ipconfig /release and hit enter. Then when you're back to the blinking cursor type ipconfig /renew
Edited by hut49 on Friday 24th November 22:44
Tried it. Made no difference.
Any other thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Gixxer
is it definitely connecting to your wireless router ??? Only we made some changes to our wireless router (including a password change) on my partners laptop. When I booted up mine the little monitor on the taskbar kept saying the signal strength was excellent but infact it was trying to accept the connection and failing because the password my laptop had didn't match the new one we'd set for the router.
che6mw said:
is it definitely connecting to your wireless router ???
That's a good point. I should have explained further - whilst my desktop is telling me that I am connected to the wireless network (good signal strength etc), I can no longer view the router's settings page - so somehow or other I have lost connection from the router to the desktop. The router is clearly still working as I am using it to get out to the internet from this laptop.
Does that help anyone?
Cheers,
Gixxer
pincher said:
Does the desktop have wireless built in or is there USB connected 'receiver'? If so, try physically disconnecting the USB and then connect it again.
It has a USB wireless receiver. I did try disconnecting etc, but it made no difference. I also tried rebooting the router, but no joy.
che6mw said:
can you try the USB wireless receiver from the desktop with the laptop ??? To rule out that being the problem?
What does the laptop use to connect wirelessly?
What does the laptop use to connect wirelessly?
Edited by che6mw on Saturday 25th November 00:43
The laptop has an internal wireless card and I can't try the USB receiver on the laptop as it is locked down and I can't install the drivers etc (work are VERY security conscious).
gixxer1000 said:
I should have explained further - whilst my desktop is telling me that I am connected to the wireless network (good signal strength etc), I can no longer view the router's settings page - so somehow or other I have lost connection from the router to the desktop. The router is clearly still working as I am using it to get out to the internet from this laptop.
From this, I assume the address of the router is known - I'm guessing it's 192.168.0.1
To connect to other devices you must be on the same subnet - i.e. your PC must have an address of 192.168.0.[2-254].
In order to establish what you have at the moment:
Start button > Run > cmd[enter]
At the command prompt type ipconfig[enter]
Your ip address and default gateway must have the same figures for the first three groups (in this case 192.168.0).
If they do not, you must make it so, either by doing as suggested previously ipconfig/release - ipconfig/renew or by manually setting the ip addresses for your local area connection.
LordGrover said:
Your ip address and default gateway must have the same figures for the first three groups (in this case 192.168.0).
If they do not, you must make it so, either by doing as suggested previously ipconfig/release - ipconfig/renew or by manually setting the ip addresses for your local area connection.
If they do not, you must make it so, either by doing as suggested previously ipconfig/release - ipconfig/renew or by manually setting the ip addresses for your local area connection.
My IP address and default gateway do indeed both have 192.168.0 as their first 3 groups.
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