Can't connect to the Internet

[Ironside]

Here is my dilemma. I have just reformatted my computer and am trying to connect it back to the Internet without any luck. My computer is connected to a router and I am on broadband. I have gone into network connections and tried to create a new connection. It just won't work. All that is underneath LAN or high-speed Internet, are the two little blue computers with 1394 connection next to them. But I check this computer in network connections, is actually says local area connection next to the blue computers. For the life of me I don't know I am going wrong.

 

[Beyond]

Here is my dilemma. I have just reformatted my computer and am trying to connect it back to the Internet without any luck. My computer is connected to a router and I am on broadband. I have gone into network connections and tried to create a new connection. It just won't work. All that is underneath LAN or high-speed Internet, are the two little blue computers with 1394 connection next to them. But I check this computer in network connections, is actually says local area connection next to the blue computers. For the life of me I don't know I am going wrong.

do you have any installation cds for your router? if so, most generally do a good job of explaining how to re-establish your connection, while some will even do it for you.

 

[suprasteve]

your router should still have the IP from your ISP so it should just be a matter of putting your pc's IP back to 192.168.x.x depending on how it was set up before.

 

[The_One]

This actually worked for somebody else here in the forums:

Go to Panel Control > Network Connections... once there pick the connection you use and right click on it, go to Properties, you'll see a white box with stuff in it, scroll to the bottom and there should be an option called "Internet Protocol [TCP/IP], click on it and then click on the Properties button on the bottom. Now leave that as it is, go to the computer that works, go to Start > Run, type cmd, a black box comes up, type " ipconfig /all ", write down the numbers for IP address [it should look like this: 192.168.1.100 or 192.168.0.100 and instead of 100 there could be any other number], write down also the Subnet Mask, Default Gateway and both DNS numbers.

Now go back to the computer whose internet doesn't work and type in all those numbers in the Properties box I made you open up earlier, to do so, make sure that "use the following IP address" and "use the following DNS" are checked.

Apply and try to go online, restart if necessary. Hope that works.

AJ

 

[The_One]

Haha I keep forgetting this one step: when you put the IP number on the computer whose internet doesn't work, change the last number, the 100 let's say, for a number higher than the number the other computer has, say if the IP on the computer that works is 192.168.1.100 yours should be 192.168.1.101 or such.