No Internet? FIXED

[cipher00]

Odd. My WLAN is working (machines see each other); internet is available from hardwired machine. Laptop, however, gets a 404 every time.

No proxy server; no internet.

Machine:
Toshiba Satelite A10, XP Pro
Zonealarm Pro (not the problem; I shut it down to try)

Ideas? TIA.

-Cipher

UPDATE: A 30 minute rest for the router and laptop appeared to do the trick. Now I have an iron-clad excuse for watching a The Sopranos episode on DVD. "Gee, hon, I have to wait about an hour, but I want to monitor the cable modem activity..."

Thanks to all who looked, more to those who responded. Thx, cuti7399! Sometimes the simplest things are best!

-cipher

 

[Slikkster]

Does anything else work? Email? Any other browser to try, like Firefox? Is this thing going through a wireless router? If so, is the router possibly not allowing access to the net?

 

[Ulukia]

Try repairing the connection. With wireless cards, the DNS server cache will not release (on occasion, I have to do it everyday when I come to work) when you go to different locations. This causes a bind because the system is looking for DNS servers that aren't immediately there. If you can, go to Start>Run>"cmd">"ipconfig /flushdns" [enter]
This will do the same thing.
Also, before you do the "ipconfig /flushdns" try "ping google.com". If you get a responce, its just port 80 traffic thats having issues.

 

[cipher00]

Thanks; I'll give this a try. Nothing else works from this machine (email, whatever), but my other wireless laptop works fine (same router), so I know it's not the router. I'll try the ip release & config. -Cipher

 

[cuti7399]

also, unplug the power from you pc to reset for 5min. My bro had the same problem and got it solved by doing that

 

[cipher00]

Also a good idea; thanks, I'll try that. Since my 2 laptops can see each other, though, I'm thinking the router is handling DHCP requests ok. Maybe just a good long rest away from any power source for 30 minutes is what they all need.

 

[cipher00]

See original post. Thanks to all.