IBMJunkman
Senior member
Friend had a problem a few weeks back. Got him working. Windows 11 Home. He called Saturday saying he could not get to the Internet. Went over yesterday. All WiFi devices working fine. His PC is wired. Microsoft networking said no internet. Changed cable. Tried a wifi connection. Nada.
Opened CMD. Tried Ping to router. No response from app. Nothing. But if we opened Edge we could get to any Internet site we wanted. Doing a little digging with ChatGPT I saw a statement that intrigued me. It appears the networking GUI does a ping to a specific MS server. If it fails it say no internet. Since it was failing and my manual Ping failed there must be something going on.
I saw something about the Windows Firewall but did not spend time looking into it. He was working. I wanted to leave well enough alone. It looks like something may have turned off ICMP or Ping.
Next time I am there I will look into it.
Opened CMD. Tried Ping to router. No response from app. Nothing. But if we opened Edge we could get to any Internet site we wanted. Doing a little digging with ChatGPT I saw a statement that intrigued me. It appears the networking GUI does a ping to a specific MS server. If it fails it say no internet. Since it was failing and my manual Ping failed there must be something going on.
I saw something about the Windows Firewall but did not spend time looking into it. He was working. I wanted to leave well enough alone. It looks like something may have turned off ICMP or Ping.
Next time I am there I will look into it.
