internet connectivity

Connecting to Comcast cable modem finally fixed! I am trying to help a lady with Win 7 Home Prem 64 bit on a nice DX4822 Gateway. She had internet connectivity for almost a year, then it faded and stopped. I can connect to the cable modem with no cable connected (not provisioned) and see the...

Have tried all the suggestions via the forums and nothing works. Still get the red x from people. Plus there is a website that others get the images but all 3 of our computers get the red x. 2 XP pcs and 1 windows 7. Could it be the router or modem that is blocking? We use Time Warner Cable...

Really sorry if this is in the wrong place, but Im really frustrated at this point. I've been having a big problem with getting an error message that says "default gateway is not available", and getting disconnected from my internet every few minutes. I've really tried to do everything I can...

I have a Sony Vaio running W7, which works absolutely fine when in my own home wireless network. However when I go to a friend’s house, I keep getting an error message saying: “Windows cannot communicate with the device or resource. (Primary DNS Server)” I am able to connect to their...

Hi, I'm new to Windows 7 and networking but have an ASUS wireless laptop connected to my home PC by a Netgear ADSL modem/wireless router (DG834GVv2). Both systems are running Windows 7 - 32 bit and can both access the internet. They are both in the same Home Group and have everything ticked...

I am a novice so please bear with me. I have a desktop running XP and a laptop running windows 7. I have them connected to the internet through a dlink router. I had them networked by reading how to's on the web. Everything worked as it should. Due to an unrelated problem I had to restore...

I purchased a dell 15r (N5010), and have had it for about 3 days. It is a core i3 2.27Ghz, 4Gb RAM. I did a clean install of the OS to get rid of all the bloatware. I then downloaded the respective drivers from the dell website and the resource CD that came with the laptop. After the clean OS...

Hello everyone. I am at my wits end. As the title states, I am without internet connectivity at home. The error in the subject is what I get when I attempt to configure my connection. I cannot even connect directly to my router by going to 192.168.1.1. I cannot even ping it...it tells me...

Network adapter in question is Intel PRO\1000 PL Here's how it went everything has been fine for awhile then I rebooted my machine today and then I had a red X on the network icon in the systray and no internet. So I rebooted my router then my machine and still had the red X on the network icon...

I'm getting this error in my event log every so often as my network connection crashes. Name resolution for the name <www.XXX.com> timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded. I have to reset my network card (disable and then enable in Device Manager) in order to get a...

Hi As the title says, I can't map a network drive over internet. I use filezilla as a ftp server and I can access the ftp in firefox but in windows I allways get the "windows can't access" message. I have tried with 2 computers in 2 diffrent locations but with the same result. I have also tried...

Here is my issue: Device Manager does not detect any network adapters. Upon starting up the newest driver installation from nVidia, it only has 2 things to install. (NVIDIA SMBus Driver, NVIDIA Storage Driver) There is no option for the ethernet driver or anything else I may need. I was...

Hello, I have installed a clean vista an I did immediatly the windows 7 update, the PC was running fine till I was doing updates and install the windows updates. The PC was just freezing when making a restore point. My keyboard, mouse, ... all not working, it seems that these pheripals have...

Today i went to bestbuy and bought my parents a new Hp p6230y desktop. I got home and started up the computer and everthing went as normal. After all the updates and the computer was setup, i browsed the internet and it was fine. As soon as i installed Norton Internet Security 2010, the internet...

i recently bought a sony vaio laptop with windows 7 pre installed, i can connect to unsecured networks easily and browse the web, i can also use an ethernet cable and browse the web but when i try to browse using a secured network wirelessly i get this message on every page i try to visit! The...

well the problem is exactly what topic says, ever since i first installed this build my network has been unidentified. at first i never bothered to care since i could connect to the internet. but as time went on i would turn my pc on and notice that the unidentified network which allowed me...

Hi All. This is the issue i'm having with W7 as a server... - connection to internet is fine for all clients - pinging outside world also works great - sharing is fine - i can not ping server by it's external IP from a PC on local network behind this server. But users on internet can ping my...

I've just recieved a new network card, because my old (integrated) card was intermitently disapearing and had to be re-installed. I decied to install the Windows 7 RC before I installed the new card. The card installed OK with Windows 7 drivers, but it will not connect to my router correctly...

I can connect to the internet just fine, but when I open up my "Network" in windows 7 I can only see my own computer. Nothing else. I know there is a win xp machine on the network which can access the internet as well. I'm completely new to the whole networking thing. I know when I ran Win XP I...

Hi, I recently bought a new laptop Newegg.com - MSI GX630-028US NoteBook AMD Athlon X2 QL-62(2.00GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 4GB Memory 250GB HDD DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT - Laptops / Notebooks with Windows Vista Home Premium already installed. The wireless card has been great but I have...