What do you do when?....

[Corey0808]

I have a friends computer that sometimes loses the internet. They are connected through a router to a cable modem. When I go to the connection properties it usually says "Automatically assigned by DHCP" and then it switches to "Automatically Assigned Private Address" or something along those lines. I don't know how to fix it without restoring the computer to where it used to work? Any tips?

 

[Goosemaster]

set a static address in the TCP/IP properties in network connections

for example, by default I think linksys uses the 192.168.0.0 network


Just use the static IP address 192.168.0.5 for example.

You need to look up the DNS server IP's

 

[Corey0808]

Is there anyway to set it to automatically pick them up like they used too?

 

[Goosemaster]

Yeah; in network properties under TCP/IP just select the "automatically.... " option