Wireless Network - IP address not resolving automatically

Hello everyone,

Up until yesterday, everything was sunshine and lollipops in the land of Windows 7. However, I am now no longer able to connect to my Home Network.

Instead, Windows continually insists that my network is "Unidentified Network" and refuses to provided internet access despite the fact that I have not changed it's SSID or the WPA2 password.

Through your forums I've determined that Windows is no longer resolving its IP automatically, however all of the proposed solutions do not resolve my issue. My router is properly set up for DHCP and "resolve IP automatically" is set in both IPv4 and IPv6 in my control panel settings.

I am using a Belkin F6D4050-2 Enhanced Wireless Adapter to connect. I have renewed and reset my ipconfig, router and adapter more times than I care to recall. I do not have iTunes installed (and hence no Bonjour BS). I am using MSSE and Windows Firewall, neither of which has caused problems in the past.

What could have possibly caused this sudden change, and more importantly how do I fix it?

ssobieraj said:

Hello everyone,

Up until yesterday, everything was sunshine and lollipops in the land of Windows 7. However, I am now no longer able to connect to my Home Network.

Instead, Windows continually insists that my network is "Unidentified Network" and refuses to provided internet access despite the fact that I have not changed it's SSID or the WPA2 password.

Through your forums I've determined that Windows is no longer resolving its IP automatically, however all of the proposed solutions do not resolve my issue. My router is properly set up for DHCP and "resolve IP automatically" is set in both IPv4 and IPv6 in my control panel settings.

I am using a Belkin F6D4050-2 Enhanced Wireless Adapter to connect. I have renewed and reset my ipconfig, router and adapter more times than I care to recall. I do not have iTunes installed (and hence no Bonjour BS). I am using MSSE and Windows Firewall, neither of which has caused problems in the past.

What could have possibly caused this sudden change, and more importantly how do I fix it?

You will need to post a screen shot of your ipconfig /all for me to look at. Bonjour installs with a bunch of Adobe apps, like iTunes or Adobe photo suite.

Well it looks like the DNS servers were typed into your Ipv4 properties and assigned manually for some reason. You need to right click on the active connection then highlight Ipv4, right click and choose properties, you will see a place for DNS servers although I can't say for certain where the DNS entries are coming from, either they were assigned by someone or they came from your router or ISP.

They would need to be removed from there first "if they are there" then you should try assigning different DNS servers in your routers set up page.

Although most of the time your ISP will have something there by default it's best to define the DNS servers you want to use in your routers settings. I use googles DNS servers of 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 Those need to be added to your routers DNS settings.

If the DNS isn't the problem, it may help to just go into the "network and sharing center" then upper left to the "wireless credential manager" and delate the credential for this connection and then create a new one using the manual wireless connection setup. Be sure and define what ever settings your router is using like the SSID, WPA2 and AES.