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Internet explorer having trouble connecting to sites (connecting to LAN through router)

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PSUlion01

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As the subject says, I've got my laptop connected to my home LAN and IE consistently gives me 'Page cannot be found' errors on various sites. The LAN has a cable modem running into a 4 port Linksys router, with two computers connected directly to the router and a hub connected to the uplink port (hub has 3 computers attached that also share the cable modem, but they are hardly using the internet).

So... I'll open a page in IE and it loads and load and then I get the page not found error. If I refresh or hit GO it'll load the page. Just seems to have problems loading the first or second time. Could this have something to do with my network settings, as the same sites seem to load ok on the other PC that's connected directly to the router.

Something did get messed up on the laptop so I'm awaiting the recovery CDs from IBM so I can wipe the system and reinstall. Things didn't seem to be this way before the computer got screwed up a bit..

Any possibility that this is a networking problem and not something with the OS/computer itself?

Thanks in advance,
Mike

ps - it just happened as i tried to post this message! AhHH!
 
Something did get messed up on the laptop so I'm awaiting the recovery CDs from IBM so I can wipe the system and reinstall.
 
uhh ok. was that line unclear? i was reading through the info on RapidRestore and by mistake I installed the software and it started to create a new recovery partition. this messed up IBMs original recovery partition, so I'm waiting for the system disk so I can erase all partitions and restore the computer to how it was out of the box.

after further investigation, it seems that the router may be causing the problems, as I'm having trouble on other computers as well. Web doesn't always connect on first try and email something doesn't work. Is this a common problem when using a router (i.e. computers not being able to access the net cleanly?)


Thanks,
Mike

PS - How do you delete a post? as you can see, IE kept giving me errors before and it ended up posting like 4 messages.

 
Do you have Internet Explorer 6 installed? If not, install that and set it to default settings to detect your internet connection.

~wnied~
 
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