laptop web access HALP

Post by **Joose** » August 19th, 2009, 21:18

Help me, before the thing gets thrown out the window.

Just got the interwebs installed in the new place. Set up the router, and everything for my computer works fine.

However, the mrs and her laptop are having issues. Although it connects no problem to the wireless network, web pages fail to load. This is on both IE and FF, on a selection of different sites. Wierdly, I can ping the sites fine, and the built in windows 7 troubleshooting doobery says that it can get to microsoft.com no problem. But in either browser, nada.

The normal jam and jizz aproach also fails.

Any thoughts? Before I cupcake it in the fuck?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 19th, 2009, 21:26

Try opendns

and try flushdns at the command prompt?

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » August 19th, 2009, 22:22

Can you browse sites with an IP address?
http://207.44.242.20 , for example (b3ta, not horses).

Post by **Joose** » August 19th, 2009, 22:38

Stoat wrote:Can you browse sites with an IP address?
http://207.44.242.20, for example (b3ta, not horses).

Nope. Well, its no different doing it like that.

I have just discovered that it does load web pages. Just veeeeeeery sloooooowly.

Post by **FatherJack** » August 19th, 2009, 22:41

Spyware phoning home a lot? Busted network interface? Saturated wireless connection?

Try a fresh install of a different browser, another NIC, or another computer using wireless.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 19th, 2009, 22:42

Try your wireless on another channel, too

Post by **deject** » August 20th, 2009, 3:11

Do a trace route to google or something and post the results.

If you don't know how, just open a command prompt and type in "tracert google.com" and it will start tracing the path you take to get to googlez.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 20th, 2009, 3:19

Also try ubuntu off a livecd, that'll rule out 99% of software fuckups easily. (assuming it works with the hardware)

Post by **HereComesPete** » August 20th, 2009, 9:55

PnP and resetting any dns that you've set in network connections back to automatic?

Post by **Joose** » August 20th, 2009, 18:35

Well, it turns out that my router is fucked.
Thankfully, I still have my old one, and that seems to work fine. What worries me is that there must have been a reason why I replaced the old router, but I cant remember what that reason is. Ah well.

Thanks for the suggestions anyway.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » August 20th, 2009, 20:14

Yeah, I had a Netgear router once that drove me nuts in the same way.

I had two laptops, and it only worked with the laptop with the Netgear card in it. Naturally I assumed it was the laptop that wasn't working that was the problem.

Well done for figuring it out faster than I did