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July 24th, 2008 16:00
Internet Problem
I have a problem with my inspiron 1520 laptop with Vista Home Premium SP 1.
For the past months, I've been surfing the internet using Linksys Wireless G access point (WAP54G).
All of the sudden, I could not surf the internet but I could use the skype application.
The strange thing is:
1. I am connected to the access point.
2. There is no virus detected by kaspersky I'm using.
3. Network adapters are all working fine in the device manager.
4. I reseted my access point but same thing happened.
5. I connected my laptop directly to the router which is not wireless but it could not get a connection.
6. If I use the wireless access point I am again connected to skype but could not surf the internet.
Please advice....
Rolly
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Larry R
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July 25th, 2008 13:00
Are you sure you were connecting to your wireless access point and not someone elses? :smileywink:
If you are having problems getting out to the internet when using a wired connection directly to your router you need to start there. If that isn't working then your wireless normally won't work either. The things to check, regardless, are whether you made changes to your network configuration either on the computer or the router (firewall, addresses, etc). Once the wired connection is working again I believe the wireless will as well, or at worst will need to be set up again.
toto309
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July 25th, 2008 14:00
Hi Larry,
Thanks a lot. I could not get that thing working on wired router but when I use my linksys access point, again, it is connected to the internet but on skype only and could not surf the internet. I even configured the access point to company default and change the network name but same thing happened.
One thing I notice, just recently, on Wireless Network Connection Status, under network connection details, connection-specific DNS suffix has no value.
I checked the same thing on my XPS laptop, the network name of my access point is there. Ithink this is the problem.
Any advice how to manually put the network name on connection-specific DNS suffix?
Rolly
dawooddoe
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July 27th, 2008 13:00
Try to use nslookup in command prompt to resolve the domain name or URL, see whether it works.. If it doen't working, then you can manually assign the following free DNS server from OpenDNS on the wireless adapter and try again (you can also configure this DNS server info on the access point with DHCP server setting enabled)...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Good luck...