Help connecting to Internet (by Madasafish)

ldavison10

Win 2K
oe6
ie6

Hi,
Im having a bit of difficulty accessing the internet. It was working but in usual style ive changed nothing and it doesn’t anymore!
I have all the correct lights on the router, the lan is enabled and the settings are correct. When I open IE I get page cannot be displayed. When I try the router settings on 192.168.1.1, I also get page cannot be displayed. I cant for the life of me think what it could be. The computer im on is a good clean computer and its been great for me in the past, if it was the old banger downstairs I could understand it. Can anyone offer advice on what it could be, or at least advice on how to get into the router settings, that would do for a start.
Thanks
Lee

Guy_Wise

Quick couple of guesses:-

Is your pc bringing up one of the lan lights on the router?
Are you connected via cable to the pc? (if not, then do so for testing)

Wayne3765

I sometimes get a similar problem with my wireless connection ( lights on router fine ) and if I click on wireless network connection - view available wireless networks there are no networks in the list and it says windows cannot configure this connection etc etc so I click on start - run and type

c:\windows\system32\net.exe start wzcsvc

this restarts the wireless configuration and then shows the network and enables me to connect to the internet or router page.

ldavison10

Im not wireless so i connect using the ethernet cable to the ethernet port. The Ethernet light on the router is lit up fine and is steady, as is the internet light. It must be something with how im trying to view the internet. Its weird because ive had exactly the same internet / router setting on this pc before.

Thanks
Lee

Guy_Wise

Still having problems?

Its weird because ive had exactly the same internet / router setting on this pc before.

Does that mean that you have changed something?

To see what's happening on the LAN side, then ipconfig can be useful

open a dos window (Start, Run, type in cmd)
when window opens type ipconfig /all

this will show you the state of play for the LAN side, whether the pc is being issued with ip etc