static ip

In a nutshell, my Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit) PC intermittently drops it's internet connection. Why? Background: My PC is wired to my ADSL modem/router which is directly connected to the phone line. I also have wireless connectivity turned on within the router for a laptop to connect wirelessly...

I am wondering if Win7 introduced some odd kinks to the way remote desktop connections work? My objective is to securely access my Win7 desktop at the home office from anywhere via the public internet. Although I will have my personal notebook computer with me 90% of the time, as a lesser...

I have two computers on a local area network: 1. Machine S is a Windows 2003 Server. 2. Machine 7 is a laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate. 3. Both machines are connected to an AT&T DSL router with CAT 5 cables. I have 8 static IP addresses and the DSL router does NAT translation to the S...

I have a Windows 7 PC that is my main box, and the Windows XP box is used as file storage. I also have a Windows XP laptop from work. All 3 PC's can access the internet. The Windows 7 PC cannot ping anything else on the network. The 2 XP machines can ping each other. The XP laptop can ping the...

I am having some issues with Windows 7 and my network bridge. The problem is whenever I have the bridge enabled, the port I have open for utorrent is blocked. When I disable the network bridge the port is open again. I have the port open on my router so I dont think thats the problem. When the...

Greetings everybody! This post shall be about the strange new networking policies introduced in Windows 7, expecially concerning the Network Location Awareness Service, which, at the moment, tries to make my life a fair bit more difficult than it needed to be. Let me introduce you to a...

I'm working on upgrading a Dell Latitude D830 from Vista Ultimate (32-bit) to Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit) retail. I opted to do an upgrade instead of a clean install for the sake of time. The system has 2 network adapters installed, a Dell 1390 WLAN mini-PCI adapter and a Broadcom NetLink 57xx...

I am currently running the Windows 7 RC, updated fully from Microsoft. Several times I have attempted to function as a server/host for various applications that have resulted in hit/miss results. Most of the time we diagnose this down to a port issue. My first response was usually to disable...

Cant connect to web using Dlink DPR1260. I connect a desktop (wired) to dlink this is wireless to netgear router. Things that work. If I move PC to other room and hardwire to Netgear all is fine. Can down load printer driver for printer that is connected to the Dlink. I have the PC set to...

First off, Hi everyone! I was lucky (?) enough to get a win7 party pack but so far have had nothing but network issues. I have completely given up on wireless - its hopeless. Driver support from belkin is pretty lame. My issue now is that i am trying to connect my original (NOT 360) xbox...

When I first installed windows 7 pro 64bit on my desktop and is wired and my internet work flawlessly now I cant get connected to my router it wont assign an ip i have set one static but still wont work all of my roommates computers work on the wireless and so does mine. i have plugged the same...

Ok, so at my college, to connect to our network drives from home, we are given a stupid SSH utility that is horrible. Being a computer engineering major, I know that we can SSH tunnel our way to the server and then map the network drive. I have used the $40 program ExpanDrive to do this before...

Hello to all, i`ve had strange problem... so the setup PC1 Asus m51se - Win 7 x64 PC2 home pc - Win 7 X64 The problem is when a folder is shared under PC1 and PC2 try to download something from PC1, PC1 just freeze. PC1 can download a file from PC2. Homegroup and simple sharing both have this...

Hello, this community is real cool and smoothened out my test transition to Win7.. But I've had a prob that wont go away, here it goes: Im currently running Windows 7 build 7600 ver 090713-1255 x64. I've configured my Windows 7 homegroup with other PCs in the network on my Thomson Speedtouch...

I have a 2008 domain running at my house, with a wireless router that is serving as the DHCP server. My windows 7 pc can connect to the router and get on the internet, but I can't join the domain. In fact, it can't even see the DC. I had a similar problem with my vista PC's, but I could fix...

Hi there, I have just switch to Windows 7 RC and I have a problem. The office tat i work in has two gateway, one is restricted internet and the other is unrestricted. I have set my gateway to the unrestricted one but still get blocked by my firewall. Checking the connection details, i see tat...

Ok so I got my new internet installed yesterday. Its 13mbps cable with a static IP. The problem is I have 4 computers "2 laptops, desktop and server" running through a WRT56gs router. All machines run great but the Vista premium desktop dose not. If I goto a web page it takes forever "looking...

Hi, this was not an issue for me with vista, but now in windows 7 I just can't seem to get it right. My setup is as follows: Internet (DHCP) -> Pc (Windows 7) (Network card #1) (Network card #2) (Static IP) -> Airport express (DHCP) -> Mac...

Hey guys, I've been trying to setup remote desktop on my laptops... I don't have a static IP, but i've set up an accout with no-ip.com and made a host etc etc. installed the software etc etc. I've opened up the port 3389 on my router to my laptop i want to connect to (correct?) Checked that...

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate RTM. I have a multihomed PC. One NIC is connected to the internet and has a static IP and a default gateway. The second NIC is connected to my isolated (read: no Internet connectivity) home network with a static IP and no default gateway. Windows 7 sees this...