Connected but not able to load websites on my laptop.

[Explicit]

I have a Window XP Professional and I am recently having problems loading sites up. I am connected online but I'm never able to load any websites.

The laptop is wireless, and it was working about 2 weeks ago. I was able to connect onto my internet, but now I am unable to load anything up. But it says I am connected. My brother has the same laptop but is able to connect and so is my desktop. Just mine. Is there something wrong with the wireless card or something? I left it on for like 5 hours one day downloading something and could that have affected it?

[ITlover]

Originally Posted by Explicit I have a Window XP Professional and I am recently having problems loading sites up. I am connected online but I'm never able to load any websites. The laptop is wireless, and it was working about 2 weeks ago. I was able to connect onto my internet, but now I am unable to load anything up. But it says I am connected. My brother has the same laptop but is able to connect and so is my desktop. Just mine. Is there something wrong with the wireless card or something? I left it on for like 5 hours one day downloading something and could that have affected it?

There might be something wrong with your browser configuration, which browser are you using?

does the websites load partially or they donot load completely? do you get any error messege when you try to access any website?

[perkster]

could be DNS problem.

is it just a website that wont load? can you connect to messenger programs, can you use outlook to get yoru emails?

if messengers work but your webpages dont thats one thing, if nothing works then its another.

you say you are connected is that in network connections in control pannel it shows you as connected?

do you get page cannot be displayed or server not found error message?

try putting: 64.233.161.147 into your browser address bar, and if it works and you see google its a DNS issue.

if not could be to do with your internet browser settings, gateway settings, router set up or something else.

[ITlover]

There might be a problem of DNS, if the websites are not opening and chat softwares like MSN and Yahoo are working fine, then there might be a problem with DNS Server, but if nothing is working ,then there might be other problem.


I think the DNS Server of the ISP might be down for maintenance purposes or the DNS Server might have been restarted due to which its IP address must have changed.

Your computers DNS cache must be using the older IP address of the DNS Server to communicate. Try using the command "ipconfig /flushdns" in your command prompt to clear your cache and then try to access websites ,if that doesnot even work, then contact your ISP and inform them about it.

If your ISP technical support says there is nothing wrong with there DNS Server then your browser is the problem.

Which browser are you using?

Regards,

[Explicit]

I'm using Mozilla and Internet explorer, both won't work. AIM and everything works.

[perkster]

put 64.233.161.147 in your browser address bar and hit return, if you see google its DNS problem and we can solve that via your web settings or refreshing the connection.

if you see nothing then it isnt DNS but maybe a blocked port or something else stopping your browser access the internet, the other problem could be firewall or soemthing, do you have any firewalls running? if so check the permission in them for your browser, maybe try and close them see if net works then and if so thats your prob to be fixed.

[rjfvillarosa]

Moderator Note.


Explicit.
Is this the same problem that you have already opened a thread on?

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...18#post1253618

If it is please keep the original thread going and this one will be closed.

[ITlover]

Originally Posted by perkster put 64.233.161.147 in your browser address bar and hit return, if you see google its DNS problem and we can solve that via your web settings or refreshing the connection. if you see nothing then it isnt DNS but maybe a blocked port or something else stopping your browser access the internet, the other problem could be firewall or soemthing, do you have any firewalls running? if so check the permission in them for your browser, maybe try and close them see if net works then and if so thats your prob to be fixed.

Is this IP address of google website or it is just a standard IP address to test DNS?

[perkster]

it translates to google.com so where you would type www.google.com in your browser and it would check a DNS server for the IP, that is the IP it would return. So typing that in the browser will bring up the google webpage if the problem is with DNS servers (i.e it cannot translate the addresses).

i use it simply because most people know google and its a small page to display and their website is pretty much never down.

[rcvalencia09]

You may also want to check your firewall. Make sure that its allowing IE to connect to the internet. What is your firewall BTW?