Help!!! I Cant Get On The Internet…..?
PPC February 27th, 2010have done everything you can imagine. I have an Acer Aspire 5002 laptop w/ Verizon DSL. 2 other computers in the house get online w/out problems. Ive unplugged the modem, pinged the addresses, etc. Last week it worked fine, then a few days ago it only worked with the ethernet cable plugged in, now nothing works. It says my connection is excellent but when i click Internet Explorer it says “page cannot be displayed”. I even did a system restore & a system recovery. Im hoping its just a setting or something isnt configured right. I tried Verizon. They dont want to help b/c the signal is fine. I tried Acer support but my laptop is out of warranty & they wont even give me hint unless I pay per minute. Any info is GREATLY APPRECIATED. Or any sites that offer good tech support. Even if I cant fix it, I would like ideas on what it could be?
February 27th, 2010 at 10:14 am
Try this first go on Internet Explorer>Tools>Internet Options>Connections>Lan Settings>Check the box that says automatically detect settings and make sure there is nothing in the proxy box.
From there you could try going to the device manager (right click my computer and select the hardware tab then device manager) then goto the network adapters section select the wireless adapter and right click it and goto properties. See if there is a power management tab if so then uncheck “turn this device off to save power”, if not then in the advanced tab look for a setting for power management and disable it.
What type of internet security do you have because your winsock could be the culprit if it has been compromised by viruses/malware. If this is the case you can goto majorgeeks via the link below and run that in safe mode and see if that clears up the trouble.
You just need to download winsockxp fix on whatever you are currently using to access answers.yahoo and put it on a flash drive, cd, external hard drive or equivalent and then run it on the other PC.
February 27th, 2010 at 10:14 am
Your connection is excellent – that would be your wireless RADIO connection to the router. Is your wireless connection finding wireless signals? If it is, are you connecting to *your* signal? What, if anything, did you change on your laptop between the time it worked and the time it didn’t?
February 27th, 2010 at 10:14 am
try an diff internet source if u can