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can connect to router and networked devices but not internet

Caine57

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Posted November 7, 2011 at 4:54PM

All of a sudden my browser wouldn't connect to any websites. Tried f.fox, IE and Chrome. But I could connect to the router and other devices, and another computer on the same router could connect to the internet. I use OpenDNS and started getting weird messages about my IP address being used by another user. I changed back to the ISP's DNS but it did not cure. In the end I used system restore back a couple of days and now all is well. Any ideas as to what happened so I can solve it in a better way if it happens again?

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onthelimit1

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Posted November 8, 2011 at 8:54AM

There was a thread on a similar subject a few days ago here

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Caine57

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Posted November 8, 2011 at 10:31PM

Thanks, had a look but not really a solution there. I think its got something to do with the IP address but not sure. Its very definitely a device issue and not a router or a connection issue.

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john bunyan

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Posted November 9, 2011 at 10:04PM

Have you tried , in Device Manager, updating the network adapter drivers?

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mgmcc

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 8:49AM

Unless there was a genuine IP address conflict, with two items in your Local Area Network having the same IP address, the problem was most likely an issue with the DHCP Client service or a corrupt registry entry. In any case, the system restore has resolved the issue so, unless it happens again, I'd forget about it.

The only occasion in which I've experienced a router allocating the same IP address to two computers is where one PC was put into sleep mode (so the router thought its IP address was no longer in use), another computer was booted, got that same address and then the original PC was brought out of sleep mode and the conflict arose. Obviously, manually allocating the same IP address to two computers in the same network would also cause a conflict. Some other network devices - network printer, network print server, NAS drives - could have fixed IP addresses and the router's DHCP pool (the range from which it allocates addresses) should be set to avoid any fixed addresses.

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T0SH

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 5:43PM

If you are running Windows7 or Vista the single most common cause of your problem is that for some odd reason the default setting on wireless network connections is defined as a Public network ?, the consequence of this is that on some occasions windows perversely decides that while on public networks you are not permitted to connect to the internet but are allowed to connect to the LAN ? , the answer is to manually change the classification to a home network , where you will be permitted to have local and internet connectivity

Cheers HC

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