A Mighty Blow To My Pride

[Skeeterman]

OK, here goes... I have a HP Pavilion 775e Windows XP Home SP2. It sets right nexts to a Motorola SB5100 Surfboard Cable Modem. Between the modem and the main (775e) computer is a D-Link #DI-704UP Router. The 775e works great with the router.
I just gave my wife for Christmas a Compaq Athlon 64 3200+. It has XP Home, with a Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast NIC. (At least it show it's installed).
I ran a 50' Cat 5e white cable going to the new (wife's) upstairs computer. This where the trouble begins..
I cannot get on the Internet.

Here is a PC-Doctor 5 for windows log file run on my PC. (down stairs)
MAC address 00:15:f2:1f:id:81
Connection-specific DNS Suffix. ks.cox.net
IP address. 192.168.0.133
Subnet Mack.255.255.255.0
Gateway IP address. 192-168.0.1

The new (wife's) PC. has as follows:

Connection-specific DNA Suffix. "blank"
IP address. 192.168.0.134
Subnet Mack. 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway. 192.168.0.1

I still cannot connect to the internet.

I'm taking a break to-night, and will tackle it again tomorrow.
Appreciate any help I can get here.

 

[superdave1984]

Try resetting the cable modem and the router. I had a similar problem a few minutes ago. I had to reset the DHCP settings for some reason. Make sure your router has enough addresses available, which it should since you have IP's for both computers. Have you run the network setup wizard? Make sure both are in the same workgroup for file sharing. Can you ping one PC from the other and vise versa? Can you ping your DNS server? The default gateway? ping www.google.com?

 

[bla!!]

I'm not sure why it isn't set, but the reason you're not able to connect is because of the dns suffix.

On your wife's computer, bring up a command prompt (start --> run --> cmd). Type ipconfig /release and press enter, then type ipconfig /renew and press enter.

Then try the internet. If it still doesn't work, type ipconfig /all and post the results here.

 

[Skeeterman]

Up and ready to fix the problem today.

On my PC. I did Start, Control Panel, Network Connection. In the Network Connection window. Here's my listing.
Top: Local Area Connection.
Connected, Bridged, Firewalled
Nvidia nForce MCA Networking adapter

Between: Network Bridge (I'm assuming this is my Router)
Connected Firewalled
MAC Bridge Miniport

Bottom: 1394 Connection
Connected, Bridge, Firewalled
1394 Net adapter.

In my Network Bridge properties, I have. "This connection uses the following items."

Box checked. Client for Microsoft Networks.
File and Printer Sharing
QoS Packet Scheduler
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
When I highlight:
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) properties. I have "checked" both.
Obtain IP address, and DNS server address, automatically.

When I click start, run. typed in CMD, enter, the black window shows: c:\window\system 32\CMD.exe window shows when I type in
IPCONFIG. enter. the following.

Ethernet adapter network bridge.
Connection-specific DNS Suffix. ks.cox.net
IP address: 192.168.0.133
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1

On the wife's computer ( Now I have it setting right next to me here near my computer to compare)

I did Start, Control panel, Network Connection. This Network Connection window shows,

Lan or High-Speed Internet
Top: 1394 Connection
Connected
1394 Net adapter

Bottom: Local Area Connection 2
Connected
Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast net adapter

When I right click on properties. Here is the window.

Local Area Connection 2 Pro
In the General tab.
It shows as checked.. Client for Microsoft Networks
File and Printer sharing
Qos Packet Scheduler
MWLink Net BIOS
MWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible
Transport Protocol
Network Monitor Driver
Microsoft TCP/IP version 6
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
When I highlight
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and right click properties. I have ..Obtain an IP address, Obtain DNS server address, automatically checked.

When I click Start, Run, type in CMD, and in the window (black)
c:\window 32\CMD.exe it lists
Ethernet adapter. Local Area Connection 2
Connection= specific. DNS Suffix: ks.cox.net
IP address: 192.168.0. 150
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
IP address: fe::215:f2ee:felf:id81./.4
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1

Tunnel 1. adapter Terredo Tunneling Pseudo - Interface
Connection- specific DNS "blank"
IP address: fe80::5445:5245:44e./.5
Default Gateway: "blank"

Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Connection-specific DNS Suffix: ks.cox.net
IP address: fe80::5efe: 192.168.0.150./.2
Default Gateway" "blank"


After doing all this.. Still no Internet Connection:

 

[Win2kpatcher]

For sure a DNS issue. You know the physical connection is good because it is pulling an IP address from the router. On the router do you have MAC filtering enabled or anything of that sort? Also I am glad you ran a long *** wire rather than getting a wireless router

 

[Win2kpatcher]

Also I am curious can you get to the router config form your wifes computer? or even ping your computer? I just want to be sure it is fine in terms of a local network.

 

[Skeeterman]

The router advanced tab for filters, I have IPFilter checked.
The MAC filters is not checked. Should it be?

 

[Skeeterman]

How would go about getting the router config. from my wife's PC?

 

[Skeeterman]

I did a ping on my PC.

I typed .. Ping yahoo.com. here are the results

Pinging yahoo.com {66.94.234.131 with 32 bytes of data.

Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time-74ms TIL-56

I have 4 of the replys.

 

[Win2kpatcher]

You would actually want to ping from your wifes PC. See if you can ping your IP address and the default gateway..which I am sure you will be able to. You could always try and enter the DNS info static and see if it would work with that. Just run an ipconfig /all on your PC and look at the primary and secondary DNS servers then enter that static on your wifes PC via the TCP/IP protocol settings on the network device.