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Win7?, or the lappie?, or the router? Equals no Internet
A Dell XPS i7 laptop, Win7 up to date, running quite well in all respects. OK, bar one!
No internet connection. Why?
The D-Link 111 router lights look good: DSL is rock steady. WAN blinks. Internet blinks. All as normal.
Putting a wire between the router & Dell lights the router port LED. AND, ipconfig.exe shows a proper IPV4 address dished out to the Dell by the router. BUT, cannot open the admin system on the router as 192.168.1.1 will not connect in Chrome nor in IE.
Win7 Network & Sharing shows a connect from Dell to router but 'X' from router to Internet. AND, ping to the router gives general failure. BUT, arp -a shows the router address as expected.
A second router is found and gives the same behaviour, but this 2nd router is known to be OK.
Take the 'bad' router next door and wire-connect it to another PC and everything works fine. Admin shows all is well inside the bad router.
Have I missed something? Is the Dell faulty?
Thank you very much.