Windows 7 - No Internet Connection

[cardinal03]

Can you browse to this IP via IE? 69.147.76.15

No luck.

Machines is plural. Do you have other windows 7 computers who are having the same symptoms as your macbook? :|

Should have been singular, typo, sorry. However, interestingly, my wife's Vista Pro laptop from work has the exact same problem. Every operating system that isn't W7 or Vista Pro works.

Her laptop connects at her office just fine. Can this really be a problem with my router?

 

[mercurial]

This is not a driver issue if you can ping local network machines. The issue is one of the following:

1. your host routing table is fucked, no default path/gateway set for traffic to leave the network. DHCP usually gets this data from the DHCP server (which runs on your router). You might try setting this manually (set your gateway to the IP address of the router)

2. Some sort of host-based firewalling is blocking the traffic to untrusted networks. turn off all firewalls and see what happens.

 

[Volcomism]

This is not a driver issue if you can ping local network machines. The issue is one of the following:

+1

1. your host routing table is fucked, no default path/gateway set for traffic to leave the network. DHCP usually gets this data from the DHCP server (which runs on your router). You might try setting this manually (set your gateway to the IP address of the router)

He did say his router sees his win7 machine. If DHCP were the case, then he wouldn't be able to log into the router from this pc. Correct?

2. Some sort of host-based firewalling is blocking the traffic to untrusted networks. turn off all firewalls and see what happens.

Agreed. This seems to be more of a network settings than anything else. But I've never heard of a firewall that blocks pings.

 

[cardinal03]

Ok, I fixed it. While I have no idea why this was happening, here is what was happening, and only with W7 and Vista Pro:

I have an access point downstairs to boost the signal throughout the house and to connect the XBOX360. For some reason the signal was going computer>router>access point and stopping, instead of computer>router>internet. So, it was creating some sort of weird closed loop.

I discovered this by turning off all wireless features on every piece of hardware, and hardwiring to my router. It identified my access point downstairs as the network rather than the router. I thought that was odd.

Turned off my access point downstairs, and now everything works. Bizarre.

So now I don't know how to have an access point downstairs to boost the signal.

Does this make sense to any of you gurus? By the way I am posting to BARF from W7PRO right now and my wife's work computer now works on our network.

WTF.

 

[Volcomism]

You owe us a beer

lol.. does your access point have mac filtering?

 

[cardinal03]

You owe us a beer

lol.. does your access point have mac filtering?

I totally owe you guys a beer, I really appreciate the assistance.

For an access point I was using a Linksys router with a static IP address. Other than assigning an IP address all the settings were "stock." What's weird is this only created problems for W7 and Vista. XP and Snowleopard (even my Blackberry and my wife's iPhone) had no problem with this set up.

How do I set up my W54GS to work as an access point but not create this weird closed loop?

 

[insyder]

I totally owe you guys a beer, I really appreciate the assistance.

For an access point I was using a Linksys router with a static IP address. Other than assigning an IP address all the settings were "stock." What's weird is this only created problems for W7 and Vista. XP and Snowleopard (even my Blackberry and my wife's iPhone) had no problem with this set up.

How do I set up my W54GS to work as an access point but not create this weird closed loop?

If the AP is running DHCP and assigning IP addresses, you need to turn that off to start off with.

 

[mercurial]

yes the AP is running a competing DHCP server to your router, it hands out an IP address on the same network so local resources are available but it also hands out its own IP as the default gateway (path to route your traffic to the internet) which, since it has no internet connection, results in your internet traffic being routed nowhere.

Turn off the DHCP server on the AP and the problem will cease.

 

[Diezel]

If the AP is running DHCP and assigning IP addresses, you need to turn that off to start off with.

+ fuckin 1. Never let your AP assign IP's. That is your Routers job.

 

[cardinal03]

Thanks everyone I will give that a try tomorrow.