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Hi, I need to use the company laptop to connect to home broadband. However, when it is connected, it shows "no or limited connectivity".

All the other laptops/computer at home can connect without any problem.

When I try to use my iPhone as hotspot. My company laptop can connect and browse websites (but extremely slow because is 3g speed).

Does anyone knows how to solve this problem?
 

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Hi,

Locate the Network Adapters section in the Windows Control Panel, select and right-click "Local Area Connection" there, select Disable.

Give it a few seconds and Enable it back again. This usually does the trick.

If not:

In the Control Panel, open Internet Options, click on the Connections tab, select "Never dial a connection", click on the LAN Settings button, check the Automatically detect option, OK, Apply, OK.
 

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Hi, I tried them and they are not working. Just googled around and find that my situation is like this:

ipconfig shows that I'm connected to 169.xxx.xxx ip, which means private ip and not able to get the ip from real DHCP.

What I have done is to disable the DHCP, assign IP to the MAC address of my laptop, set my laptop to connect to that IP.

However, still not working.
 

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please post the results of a ipconfig /all for review.

who setup your home router?
any other devices connecting to the router?
how are you connecting? wired or wirelessly?
 
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