Connected but with no internet !

KEiGHT said:

Make sure your Antivirus firewall don't block your outbound ! even you are connected to internet, firewall can block all ports ! Disable it for a while !

Cheers!

I will look into that... but ..

If the avast firewall, blocks me, should it block me constantly and not intermittently ?

I will try to turn off avast and windows firewall and see what happens, though..

You use utorrent?

KEiGHT said:

You use utorrent?

yeap I do... But it's off...
I don't have it on starting programs either...

but...

why do you ask?

because , settings of torrent incorrectly goes to fail most of the time.
maximum allowed connections are 200 , not to high beyond that limit (up to 256) because your bandwidth will be seriously throttled!

you may set those values like that

Global Max number of conn = 256
max num of conn pers per torrent = 64
max num upload slots per torrent = 8

KEiGHT said:

because , settings of torrent incorrectly goes to fail most of the time.
maximum allowed connections are 200 , not to high beyond that limit (up to 256) because your bandwidth will be seriously throttled!

you may set those values like that

Global Max number of conn = 256
max num of conn pers per torrent = 64
max num upload slots per torrent = 8

This is not the problem.. I have been using utorrent for years now...
But even if my bandwidth was throttled, I would still be able to connect.

So the issue here is not slow internet.. but NO internet.. lol

Thank you for you suggestion Keight :)

then set MTU to 1460 or lower and see what's happen!

KEiGHT said:

Make sure your Antivirus firewall don't block your outbound ! even you are connected to internet, firewall can block all ports ! Disable it for a while !

Cheers!

I have disabled windows firewall, and all avast shields.

I see the same behaviour.. connects for a few seconds, then off and tries to re-connect

Total said:

ermns said:

For the few seconds that it connects and for a fact I know that it gets an ip I get the following...

Please advice as to how I "get rid" of the Wins Server... although it was working without problem before.

Have you tried to set up a new profile and see how things work ?

Thank you Total for your suggestions...
I guess what you mean is to create a new user.. right?

I just did this... but unfortunately I get the exact same behaviour..

Ok, I kinda had a breakthrough...

To do a small recap, when I am connected to the router via my switch neither windows nor linux (boot from usb) can connect to the internet.

I was playing around with the switch's ports but nothing happened.
As soon as I connected directly to the router I was connected immediately to the internet... HOWEVER.... my connection was actually non existent. It could even see my router 192.168.1.1 but extremely slow... I took so much time that it could load the page but not the pictures.

Now as soon as I booted with linux, it got connected immediately and doing a speed test confirmed my suspicions. The Internet was top speed (for my connection)...

So it's not a hardware problem.. It IS a software problem.
It seems that windows are extremely slow.. as if there is a conflict... I don't know...

Now I am connected directly to my router, and I connect with the internet...

Any new suggestions?

These are my settings with the current setup.
I wonder why it can't find my DNS Server...
Any ideas?

ps. I also checked my router's LAN ip addresses for possible conflcts. There was none. All connected devices had their own specific and separate IP's.