Cannot connect laptop to my home PC but can to others!

Jonah1156

Seasons greetings to you all

I had a problem with my own destop PC recently which meant having to re-set some modem settings by AOL. Now this is working ok, my own laptop is unable to connect to it and have found out that it can connect to my other half's home PC set up with no probs!

Can anyone out there advise me what I should do to get my own laptop in my own home to connect please? I have a standard Netgear router supplied by AOL which had worked fine until the settings went askew!

Thanks

Poppy9

Do you still have the router installation disc that came with the router. If so go through the set up process again.

fwor

It would help if you could be a bit more precise about which modem settings you changed, as it could be one of many things.

Your use of the phrase "connect to it" is also a bit vague. If you mean that you can't use file and print sharing between your laptop and desktop PC, the first things I'd check would be whether they are both in the same workgroup, and whether their IP addresses are in the same address range/subnet.

Reading what you wrote again, perhaps you mean that you can't access the internet from your laptop?

You don't ~mention~ wireless, but if you actually use a wireless connection from your laptop there are other settings that you would need to check.