another internet prob:(

derekburger3 · 01-24-2006, 03:41 PM

hi,
i briefly looked through old threads to see if this has been posted before but there are alot of pages so i gave up anyway this is going to be a lengthy post because i want to relay the information in as much detail as possible to answer all questions about my situation. i have xp home edition also. heres the problem:
my roomate and i have been using a cable internet connection for about 7 months. no problems. i have a netgear wireless router that i am directly connected through and my roomate is wirelessly connected through. yesterday i shut my computer off (which i rarely do) and when i restarted i started having probs. i tried to connect my AIM. it tried for a minute and said AIM couldnt be reached. next i tried to connect to firefox. tried to connect for a minute then said google(homepage) couldnt be found. so i went to my roomates comp to see if his internet worked, and it did. i found out later that his wireless card was using a neighbors connection. so i connected his wireless back up to our netgear router. said connected with the signal being excellent. tried getting on his AIM and IE but would not connect to either. i went back to my computer network connections checked my LAC and it said connected. however the activity seemed very low. it said we were sending out bytes but recieving them was very low (<200). a couple of times when i opened up firefox or IE it took me to the netgear config wizard. i redid all of that (ip,subnet ip, gateway ip) and then it updated something. internet still didnt work after that. just rechecked the connection activity on mine and it was (sent 1186 bytes, recieved 180 bytes). here are the things i have tried. 1)unplugging all cables for a couple of hours 2)reset netgear router 3)repair internet connection 3) reconfig wireless router 4)enable, disabled LAC many times just hoping it would work once lol 5)skipped the router and connected directly to my comp but it said low connectivity detected...i may have tried a few other minor things but i cant remember. overall it seems like the internet is working, but when it comes to recieving info i am not getting any... or its very very low??? i just dont know where this problem would have suddenly come from after such a long time with no probs. my friend had the same problem a couple weeks ago. i tried fixing it but i couldnt. so after a couple weeks with no internet he took his PC to the ISP and they told him it was a software prob or something. when he got home and reconnected his PC he had a connection lol. ok sorry for being long winded i just like to be thorough when explaining.
thanks in advance
edit:i also tried run<cmd<ping yahoo.com which then said yahoo.com could not be found...i also disabled my firewall and my avg antivirus...neither worked..also ran ad aware, spybot and avg scans..i also reset the modem

martin353 · 01-25-2006, 12:01 AM

Hi M8,
Might seem like a silly one but neverless one I have come across before. make sure the Win own firewall has not started up (without being asked cause after all this is Mr Gates we r talking about) and is blocking anything. Had that on a m8ts puter a littlwe while ago

derekburger3 · 01-25-2006, 07:24 AM

hi again,
i would have just edited my last post but i couldnt find that option. but, i tried many things and none of them seemed to work. so on a whim i connected my pc directly to my modem AGAIN and this time it worked. so now i have an internet connection and the problem seems to stem from my netgear router. i guess i really dont need to be hooked up to the router since my roomate is just leeching his connection from a neighbors linksys. however i am the type of guy that likes to know why something isnt working. any quick suggestions if not its no big deal. i guess the netgear website should have some info. but like i said any suggestions may help.
thanks for response though

01-24-2006, 03:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
derekburger3 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2 OS: xo	another internet prob:( hi, i briefly looked through old threads to see if this has been posted before but there are alot of pages so i gave up anyway this is going to be a lengthy post because i want to relay the information in as much detail as possible to answer all questions about my situation. i have xp home edition also. heres the problem: my roomate and i have been using a cable internet connection for about 7 months. no problems. i have a netgear wireless router that i am directly connected through and my roomate is wirelessly connected through. yesterday i shut my computer off (which i rarely do) and when i restarted i started having probs. i tried to connect my AIM. it tried for a minute and said AIM couldnt be reached. next i tried to connect to firefox. tried to connect for a minute then said google(homepage) couldnt be found. so i went to my roomates comp to see if his internet worked, and it did. i found out later that his wireless card was using a neighbors connection. so i connected his wireless back up to our netgear router. said connected with the signal being excellent. tried getting on his AIM and IE but would not connect to either. i went back to my computer network connections checked my LAC and it said connected. however the activity seemed very low. it said we were sending out bytes but recieving them was very low (<200). a couple of times when i opened up firefox or IE it took me to the netgear config wizard. i redid all of that (ip,subnet ip, gateway ip) and then it updated something. internet still didnt work after that. just rechecked the connection activity on mine and it was (sent 1186 bytes, recieved 180 bytes). here are the things i have tried. 1)unplugging all cables for a couple of hours 2)reset netgear router 3)repair internet connection 3) reconfig wireless router 4)enable, disabled LAC many times just hoping it would work once lol 5)skipped the router and connected directly to my comp but it said low connectivity detected...i may have tried a few other minor things but i cant remember. overall it seems like the internet is working, but when it comes to recieving info i am not getting any... or its very very low??? i just dont know where this problem would have suddenly come from after such a long time with no probs. my friend had the same problem a couple weeks ago. i tried fixing it but i couldnt. so after a couple weeks with no internet he took his PC to the ISP and they told him it was a software prob or something. when he got home and reconnected his PC he had a connection lol. ok sorry for being long winded i just like to be thorough when explaining. thanks in advance edit:i also tried run<cmd<ping yahoo.com which then said yahoo.com could not be found...i also disabled my firewall and my avg antivirus...neither worked..also ran ad aware, spybot and avg scans..i also reset the modem

01-25-2006, 12:01 AM	#2 (permalink)
martin353 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 5 OS: Winxp	Hi M8, Might seem like a silly one but neverless one I have come across before. make sure the Win own firewall has not started up (without being asked cause after all this is Mr Gates we r talking about) and is blocking anything. Had that on a m8ts puter a littlwe while ago

01-25-2006, 07:24 AM	#3 (permalink)
derekburger3 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2 OS: xo	hi again, i would have just edited my last post but i couldnt find that option. but, i tried many things and none of them seemed to work. so on a whim i connected my pc directly to my modem AGAIN and this time it worked. so now i have an internet connection and the problem seems to stem from my netgear router. i guess i really dont need to be hooked up to the router since my roomate is just leeching his connection from a neighbors linksys. however i am the type of guy that likes to know why something isnt working. any quick suggestions if not its no big deal. i guess the netgear website should have some info. but like i said any suggestions may help. thanks for response though