router issues

I am using Windows 10 Home Edition on a Lenovo laptop. Today, my Epson printer would not connect to my laptop via wi-fi, and after trying a lot of things (updating the printer drivers, turning the computer and printer off and back on, updating printer firmware, etc.), I gave up trying to fix it...

I've been struggling with this issue for some time on a Windows 7 Home Premium machine on a gigabit network. Running a typical speed test (e.g., speedtest.net) shows upload bandwidth of around 5 Mbps (600+ kB/s). However, transfers and connections from remote locations through the gatweay are...

this is an odd one, I'm thinking initially that at some times during the day, I can have up to 10 devices connected, wife, kids, wireless printer, android tablets, iphone, 2 windows phones and 5 total laptops though, not connected all at once. Also an Xboxone, an Xbox 360 which are seldom on. my...

I am having some issues with my computer that have been annoying me for a long time now and am wondering if anyone could lend a hand. Here are the problems. 1. The nework shares seem to stop working on all devices except for my other windows 7 machines. When I'm using another windows 7...

Hi guys, really need your help. Win7 64-bit So a week ago I needed to have access to a printer/scanner (Brother) in my home. I installed the software/drivers and unplugged the ethernet cable from one of the modem ports into a Linksys router. Everything was just fine except anything over the...

A couple of weeks ago I installed Windows 8 (fresh install from scratch, not an update) on my computer. I do a lot of web browsing and over the last couple of weeks I've been using Windows 8, I could swear the web browsing wasn't as fast at it used to be on Windows 7. I then noticed I was...

Hello, I've had my Dell M6500 with Windows 7 for 1.5 years now. My network adapter drivers are all up to date. I've never had any issue connecting to all kinds of wireless---airports, coffee shops, home, etc. The past weekend I was out of town and connected to the wifi at a McDonald's, no...

BSOD every hour even when idling Yesterday I started receiving a BSOD while I was playing Diablo3. I was having no issues with the game, everything was running fine and all of a sudden the screen froze and the sound got stuck so to speak. After a few minutes I then received a BSOD. I rebooted...

I’ve been trying to stream media from my computer to the PS3. So far my guess is that the reason it isn’t working is because when I go to, Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Center\Media streaming options, the pull down menu ‘Show devices on:’ is on ‘Local network’ and...

I have a Windows XP desktop - wired to my Motorola router/modem from AT$T for a while. I been able to run a Vista Desktop and a Windows 7 Premium Home with no problem. I got the A V Guardonline spam ware. I was able to clean it up using Combo Fix and Malware Byte. After Combo Fix - at first I...

Hello, I purchased a new Dell XPS 17 and have previously been a long time user of XP. One big reason I am already not a fan of Windows 7 is because while some things have improved other things have gotten worse. By far this is the worst problem: In XP my Duration online can be 1-2 days and...

So I've seen a couple threads about this already, but no solutions have worked for me or the person who started the thread had a slightly different problem. Basically, for a while now, maybe 3-5 months, every 5-10 hours, my internet fully shuts off, and I get the exclamation mark sign over my...

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...

I have a win7 (x64) platform with VM's to utilize several other OS's (linux based) which worked dandy up until yesterday when I had a short power outage. The win7 has perfect connectivity but the VM's do not. My VM which has always run as a public access/ unidentified network, has no internet...

I have a very annoying a problem. Sometimes when I'm browsing my internet just stops working, and I can't use the web browsers, but programs such as torrent clients, skype and others work, just the web browsing doesn't work. The other computer that's connected not wireless to the internet...

I've got 1 windows 7 media center box (32 bit), my laptop (win 7 64 bit), my girlfriends laptop (Win 7 64 bit), and an xbox 360. The media center box used to be XP I upgraded to windows 7 and all was well. I was able to connect to and stream movies from the media center to the xbox. I was...

I have a Xp Sp3 PC which has shared folders and serves videos to Vista media centre connected to the router. The problem started suddenly. List of videos loads quickly in media centre and then I go and click the video and choose video to play. This is where it takes up to 3-6 minutes to start...

I have 2 W7 PC's; the good one and the bad one! Let me say at the outset that on both my bios & all my drivers are up to date! I have yet to establish a cause but the bad W7 crashes around start up 3 times per week on average. I suspect that 1 of the two 500Gb RAID discs is the culprit and...

Hi, I know there are a lot of these posts, but I can't find a solution to my problem. I am running on a dell inspiron with a 64-bit windows 7 OS. It worked fine for about a month then my wireless connectivity started getting all fritzy. When I attempt to connect to my home network (Linksys...

Simple yes but I have failed to reconnect the computers after install of McAffee from AT&T. Both computers are seen in the McAffee application but not in the homegroup. McAffee says the other computer has not been invited yet. I have the ip address of both in the approved network section of...