LAN broadband connection

[cloud]

I'm in a college campus, and when i hooked my computer up to the internet, it was just plug and play, plug it in and bam.. thats it, but my roommate's computer wont do that. When i hook it up, it says its connected but when i open internet explorer it says its offline, i've tried everything i think even setting up new connections and all, but to no avail. its on windows xp, any advice is appreciated.

 

[uchiha]

does your campus require you to login have patches etc? are you getting an Ip from the school server? I get these problems alot, but they correct themselves. theres bound to be a techie on your floor..

 

[VICone]

Verify the link status on the NIC.....check to see if the LAN connection is enabled..................see if you can set up a new LAN connection.........ipconfig /renew....is there proxy settings? There are a bunch of stuff to check.

 

[mortified]

A common thing for people....

who like to disable unneccessary services (like myself).

Go to Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services

Be sure his DHCP Client Service is started

Be sure he's not configured for a static IP address rather than receiving a DHCP address

Also check to see if he has a proxy server configured



Hope one of these helps

 

[cloud]

turns out the internet is just messed up in our room, now my side is doing it, when i hook up to my etherenet port i get a messege saying there is limited or no connection, but if i hook up to his it works fine. heh I go crazy when i can't get something like that to work.

 

[cloud]

oh and thank you guys for your suggestions.