Internet is mostly not working...

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  1. Posts : 8
    Windows XP / 7
       #1

    Internet is mostly not working...


    Hey, so I've actually had this problem a long time ago with Windows XP... Don't remember how I fixed it but I think it was just a full reformat.

    Windows 7 worked before, internet, everything was fine - until yesterday when my internet crashed (in my entire house). I have a separate computer up (the original one that had this issue) right next to it. My entire house went down for internet for a long time. I went to sleep, woke up the next day - internet is working on Windows XP. Great! It's back. Windows 7 doesn't have internet anymore. Still connected to the home network, just says no internet access. They are both connected to the same switch by ethernet cable, which then runs to the router out in the living room.

    Weird thing is, I still have SOME internet capabilities. For instance, Ventrilo and UltimateBet both still work fine, have full internet capabilities. (Ultimate bet the ads don't load correctly, page load error comes up). When I start up mozilla firefox, IE, any other game, etc, they almost don't even try to connect.

    I tried /release /renew, uninstalling the network card, restarting, winsockxp fix.... Not sure what else to try. Thanks guys.
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  2. Posts : 2,111
    Win7 Build 7600 x86
       #2

    Buddhism101 said:
    Hey, so I've actually had this problem a long time ago with Windows XP... Don't remember how I fixed it but I think it was just a full reformat.

    Windows 7 worked before, internet, everything was fine - until yesterday when my internet crashed (in my entire house). I have a separate computer up (the original one that had this issue) right next to it. My entire house went down for internet for a long time. I went to sleep, woke up the next day - internet is working on Windows XP. Great! It's back. Windows 7 doesn't have internet anymore. Still connected to the home network, just says no internet access. They are both connected to the same switch by ethernet cable, which then runs to the router out in the living room.

    Weird thing is, I still have SOME internet capabilities. For instance, Ventrilo and UltimateBet both still work fine, have full internet capabilities. (Ultimate bet the ads don't load correctly, page load error comes up). When I start up mozilla firefox, IE, any other game, etc, they almost don't even try to connect.

    I tried /release /renew, uninstalling the network card, restarting, winsockxp fix.... Not sure what else to try. Thanks guys.
    Hi Buddhism101,

    What security apps do you have on both machines? (antivirus, firewall, anti-malware etc.)

    And are they on or off?

    Do you have any forwarding ports opened on your router?
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  3. Posts : 8
    Windows XP / 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    No external firewalls on either. Windows firewall is off on both. Also forgot to mention I reformated about 20 minutes ago... So there's literally nothing on there. I do have a bunch of ports forwarded on my windows XP machine's IP - For different games, and to host certain things from it.
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  4. Posts : 30
    Windows 7 RTM (My daddy installed it for me)
       #4

    Hi Buddhism101, welcome to the forums as my dad would say

    Have you tried resetting your router?

    Internet instability & packet loss can be caused by crashes if it does not get reset properly. What router do you have, and do you know how to reset it?



    AS
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  5. Posts : 8
    Windows XP / 7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    It can't be the router if the other 7 computers in my house are all getting proper connections can it? It's a DI-634M. Before I go messing with ALL of the connections in the house I'd like to make sure this has a decent probability of being the issue?
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  6. Posts : 2,111
    Win7 Build 7600 x86
       #6

    Buddhism101 said:
    No external firewalls on either. Windows firewall is off on both. Also forgot to mention I reformated about 20 minutes ago... So there's literally nothing on there. I do have a bunch of ports forwarded on my windows XP machine's IP - For different games, and to host certain things from it.
    Do I understand right you have
    no antivirus/antimalware software,
    no firewalls active?
    and a bunch of forwarding ports open?
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  7. Posts : 30
    Windows 7 RTM (My daddy installed it for me)
       #7

    Could it be that IE and possibly others are set to 'Work Offline' while the connection was lost over night? If you open IE and click 'Tools' is 'Work Offline' selected?

    It's just a thought, as you say it's instant
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  8. Posts : 8
    Windows XP / 7
    Thread Starter
       #8

    squonksc said:
    Do I understand right you have
    no antivirus/antimalware software,
    no firewalls active?
    and a bunch of forwarding ports open?
    Unless I'm missing something... Yes? I've run my computer like this for about 4 years now? No issues really. (4 years ago my old computer had this same problem) On the reformatted one, certainly no firewalls or anything, but no ports open for it.

    Work offline is not on.
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  9. Posts : 30
    Windows 7 RTM (My daddy installed it for me)
       #9

    One possibility may be to run a Repair Install and see if that helps at all
       Note
    No user files or programs are affected by a Repair Install :)
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  10. Posts : 8
    Windows XP / 7
    Thread Starter
       #10

    Attomic Shark said:
    One possibility may be to run a Repair Install and see if that helps at all
       Note
    No user files or programs are affected by a Repair Install :)

    That's running now. Any other ideas while that's going? (2 gigs to download) Thanks by the way, hope this overwrites a corrupt file or something?
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