computer networking problems

You are not getting a DNS server setting from DHCP. Go into your router setup and see what the DNS address it gets from you provider. Go into you network setting on your computer and you can manually set the DNS server to the DNS server from your provider or the address of the router.

 

Also, set your router to clone the Mac address of your main PC. It should help as well.

DD

 

Post your IP, subnet mask, DNS servers, and default gateway (try ipconfig /all). Also, try and trace the route to your DNS server by typing tracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (substitute the xxx's with your Primary DNS server address). Post the results.

 

Shouldn't your DNS be one that is provided by your cable/DSL company?

It should not be an internal addy, I don't think.

I am having a devil of a time getting to my router's settings to check they are running butt slow.

Also I set my MTU = 1500 as per X-Box recommendations.

Try bypassing your router to see what your Network address will be then input that DNS into your router, see if that helps.

DD

 

you are correct

the DNS settings should NOT be the same as the router.
I dont know of any consumer router that has a builtin DNS server.

Who is your interwebs connection with?

go check their site for the correct DNS settings, and enter them manually into your config.

set your wireless NIC with the IP, gateway and DNS manually and see if it works that way.

 

Can you log in to your router? Generally, go to your browser and use 192.168.0.1 for the URL - may be 192.168.1.1. The username pasword is probably admin/password. If so, what is the IP address that it shows?

 

You're not getting an IP address assigned by your ISP to your router.

Common causes

1. ****ed up router (still a posibility, even if the other one was swapped)
2. If you have a ****ty ISP, they may be limiting what MAC address can connect (your normal PC)



Follow these steps

1. Open window
2. Throw out laptop.





Few questions.

1. If you hook up an ethernet cable from your router to your laptop, does it allow you to connect and browse?
2. If you can browse with a cable, then something in your wireless config (either router or laptop) is ****ed.

Start off by unplugging the cable modem/dsl modem, Router, and shutting down the laptop.

Power on the modem.
Power on the router 30 seconds later
Power on the laptop 30 seconds later

If you can access your router's config page (normally 192.168.1.1, if it's linksys, and you haven't messed with it before.
User: <blank>
Pass: admin

Check the Status tab/setting

If DNS or IP starts with 192.168.x.x, then there's a problem, and your modem isn't assigning the router an IP address.



If on the test you did earlier, you try an ethernet cable hooked up to the router and it still doesn't work...
Can you connect a cable directly from the modem to the laptop?
Reset again (power on modem first, then laptop after 30 seconds)

Can you browse then?

This is much easier when you can test it yourself rather than explain it

 

Good point, its also a good idea to shutdown your cable modem before you plug in the new router and then bring up the modem and router in order.

 

At what hop does the trace time out? Also, what is the make and model of your router, and who is your ISP?

 

How is your IP 192.168.0.104? Shouldn't it be 192.168.1.104?