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    strangest internet connection problem iv ever had

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by lukycharms, Dec 14, 2007.

  1. lukycharms

    lukycharms Newbie

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    Alright so my cable is connect. Im sending and receiving packets. Using ipconfig iv found that my computer is recognizing my ip. I can even access some internet options like if I play a steam related game like counter strike or day of defeat or if I play EvE online. But then it just cannot connect to a web browser like IE or firefox and it cannot log into other games like world of warcraft or try and log onto AOL instant messenger. Does anyone have ANY idea at all on what could be causing this? it was just working find this morning and out of now where this happened.
     
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    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    can you ping a site?

    what you ipconfig show?

    what firewall are av suite are you runing?
     
    andyasselin, Dec 14, 2007
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    lukycharms Newbie

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    not sure what pinging a site is but it does try and load and the connection just ends up timing out before it loads the site. which is different then when i completely disconnect the cable. when i confiig the ip i get:
    connection specific DNS suffix........ villanova.edu
    IP address..........153.104.119.19
    subnet mask..........255.255.252.0
    default gateway..............153.104.116.1

    i dont even have a fire wall right now because i reformated my computer hoping it would fix the problem but it didnt
     
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  4. andyasselin

    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    okay if you go command prompt

    you can run ping google.com it will show if connect to site

    you cound also run netsh reset winsock

    and netsh int ip reset reset.log
     
    andyasselin, Dec 14, 2007
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    See what values you have for DNS, should be public IP's not private.

    Connect to the routers and see what values it has for WAN ISP settings. It should tell you all the good stuff.
     
    blue68f100, Dec 14, 2007
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    you dns can be private ip some router have feature call foward dns

    if does it willbe say ip as you gateway

    what router are you plug into?
     
    andyasselin, Dec 15, 2007
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