Moved back to Australia, cannot open IE

Question

I bought a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop computer several months ago while I was living in England. I returned to Australia about 2 weeks ago, bringing this laptop with me. While I was in the UK, I had absolutely no problems connecting to our wireless network - I could even connect to the wi-fi at my friends house, or even use the neighbours' wi-fi network if they didn't have security up.   Now I can still access wireless networks in Australia, and I can connect to our broadband via our Linksys Cable/DSL router, but even though I am connected I cannot use Internet Explorer. I tried signing in to MSN (which didn't work), it has told me that my default gateway is off line - although I don't know what this has to do with anything.   Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

volcano11 · Answer

To help troubleshoot this problem, go to Start > Run and type cmd then click OK. In the command prompt window that opens, type ipconfig /all then hit the enter key. Write down the output from this command or select it and save it to a txt file, then copy this output into a reply to this message.   Steve

jmwills · Answer

How is the Local Area Connection (Network Adapter) configured?  DHCP or Static?

sebaliscious · Answer

Ok I did the run cmd thing, this is what I got...   Windows IP Configuration   Host Name: PANDORA Primary DNS Suffix: Node Type: Mixed IP Routing Enabled: Yes WINS Proxy Enabled: No   Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection   Media State: Media disconnected Description: Broadcom 440 x 10/100 integrated controller Physical Address: 00 15 C5 23 6A FC   Ethernet Adaptor Wireless Network   Description: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG Network Connection Physical Address: 00 13 02 C9 DB 1A DHCP enabled: Yes Autoconfiguration enabled: Yes Connection specific DNS suffix: IP Address: 192.168.1.2 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1 DHCP: 192.168.1.1 DNS Servers: 192.168.1.4                        192.168.1.5     I think that's all - note that I was not able to connect the ethernet local area connection cable up in this instance. The connection specific DNS suffix is blank in all instances that I checked the IP configuration. Could this have something to do with the problem?   Anyway, hope this is of some assistance to you guys. Cheers

jmwills · Answer

The term connected does not mean authenticated with the proper credentials. Go thru these sites and see what your setup is missing:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/default.mspx
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002706&source=rss_news10
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1277020,00.asp

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Moved back to Australia, cannot open IE

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