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Limited or No Connectivity

RandomFool

RandomFool

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I have this problem with my laptop (win XP) where the network connections tell me I have Limited or No Connectivity unless i manually configure their settings. I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix it. I've tried winsockxp, netsh ip reset ip.txt, uninstalling and reinstalling the nics. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
-Ryan
 
Usually it cannot connect to a DHCP server probably. Make sure it is set up to gain details from a DHCP server, or do you even have a DHCP server?
 
I'd have said restart the router (unplug, wait, plug in) as well as I saw this on a friend's computer. As long as you're sure the cable and connectors aren't damaged at all...
 
OK so I fixed my laptop by just restarting the router, which was good. However I still can't get wireless to connect for some reason. AND for some reason any new computers (a new build and a upgrade for friends/relatives) I try to get on the network only comes up with the 169 address and doesn't connect unless I manually configure the ip/subnet/gateway and all that. There's 3 computers that connect without a problem using DHCP. I have a linksys wireless router and use one of the ports to uplink to a hub, which worked fine forever. I tried resetting the router and plugging the new computers directly into the router and nothing seems to fix it. Once my other roommate leaves for awhile I?m going to try unplugging the router and modem for awhile because he doesn't seem to like me much and i think he might die with out internet. Until them I?m stuck. Any ideas?
-Ryan
 
Make sure you aren't limiting the DHCP pool on the router. Sometime you can set a range that it uses. You might have specified a very small range (like 3) which is causing everything else to not get on.

Could also try switching ports around and things like that.
 
Hi, pardon my terrible newbiness on this, but (and I've been using computers for 20 years, but.....):

I thought I was being clever by deciding first to route two computers independently thru a router on one Ethernet card in each, and then by connecting the two computers with a second ethernet card/chip in each to each other via a hub.

The theory behind this was that I could have the two computers talk to each other on one ethernet link thru the hub without being "in the internet," and that they could each talk separately to the internet through a nice, firewalled separate ethernet connection.

But: no go. Seems like WinXP Pro wants to have only one TCP/IP setting for both.

I _can_ install NWLink SPX/IPX Netbios protocol and have the computers see each other this way, but I have a feeling that's not a good idea? It seems to slow things down significantly.

If I try disabling and turning off and even disconnecting all the ethernet connections to the router to the cable modem, and _then_ trying to set up a network, it doesn't get any better.

I've tried manually setting the TCP/IP addresses to a range that will make sense locally, but that doesn't seem to work without Netbios/IPX/SPX.

Any hints, recommendations?😱 Please don't laugh at me, thanks.

rt
 
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