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Very weird! Laptop can connect connect to internet, but Desktop cannot!

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ETan

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I have a laptop and a desktop. I have a comcast connection, and a Netgear wireless + 4 port router.

My laptop is connected wirelessly (which is what I'm using now to type this and do research). My desktop is connected to via CAT5.

My laptop connection works perfectly.

My desktop actually gets an IP address from the router, and recognizes the gateway (attbi.com - comcast bought out ATT), and it even PINGS google.com perfectly fine!

However, when I use Internet Explorer or Mozilla to try to connect any site, including google.com, the status bar quickly shows that it found the site, "opening the page", then within a fraction of a second the page displays a "The page cannot be displayed" error - this goes for any site. And remember, I can PING google.com perfectly fine.

Here's another tricky thing: I have emule (p2p network), and it is actually connected and is downloading and uploading perfectly fine!

So the problem seems to be isolated to visiting any web sites.

PLEASE HELP!
 
sounds to me like your IE and mozilla settings are screwed up...

why is your gateway attbi.com......surely the gateway should be set to be the router? and then the router will find the connection from there!?

I have re-read.....sry misunderstanding....

set your I.E and mozilla gateways to the routers IP address
 
In the command prompt type "ftp" or "ipconfig /renew" if any of those returns something about a socket. Perform a winsock repair.

Another common one is turn off/uninstall any firewalls.
 
I fixed it!!

Guys I've tinkered with all the settings I could think of, in IE, Mozilla, even IPCONFIG / RENEW and RELEASE. Windows XP Firewall has been turned off. No other firewall is running.

Again, the funny thing is, the laptop worked fine.

I was researching posts about similar issues, and could not find an identical scenario, but I did find some folks mention going through the "Internet Connection Wizard" and follow the "Connect to the internet through a Residential gateway" wizard. There were no special settings at all... I just clicked Next next ... Finish.

As soon as I was done with that, my internet connection on the desktop worked fine!

I don't get it, but hey, it is now working, and hopefully this helps out others with similar problems.

Thanks for the suggestions.
 
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