strange lan problem:(

[dw33zil]

it's weird, i used to be able to connect to the internet in the office and at home. i'm using a built in broadcom 10/100 lan on my laptop. but recently i can't connect to the broadband modem at home (but i can in the office). i used another laptop (with the same broadcom network adapter) and it was able to connect to the house modem. i pinged the default gateway using the laptop in question but it timed out. i tried releasing and renewing the ip address but it still can't fix the problem. but the strange thing is the other laptop able to connect to the modem is in a totally different ip address and subnet mask as the other computer using the same modem at home. (for example: 165.18.68.184/255.255.255.0 on the computer that can't connect vs. 172.16.1.4/255.255.248.0 on the computer that can). i was able to see the network address of the computer not able to connect to the house modem at the firewall tab/ zones tab/ of zone alarm security suite installed on both computers. and the strange thing is the laptop which can't connect at home is using the same network address as the office's. checked network connection settings, lan connections at the connection tab of IE properties and both computers have the same exact settings. so how am i gonna get through this?

 

[JackMDS]

Make sure that the Network is configured to obtain IP Auto, and try too use the ipconfig realse/renew command.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu.../proddocs/en-us/ipconfig.mspx?mfr=true

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