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Network appears connected but cant reach websites (except google)
Hi, hoping for some help with Internet problem.
This is an old Acer 5535 laptop with Vista home premium. Its reasonably powerful still with 4GB memory so thought I'd get it out and use it as a web client and upgrade to a letr version of Windows
It used to work fine on our home broadband but it was getting really slow and as there's no data on it I thought I'd reload original software from backup partition.
All appeared to work fine and now its back to its old speed, even the wireless network appeared connected OK - but when I tried to use it I can get to google (with page errors) but most other sites give me error messages, even when I can connect the page isn't loaded correctly.
So I tried using EThernet cable - same thing, no internet but network diagnostics say its OK.
Checked device manager and there are no errors.
All updates are loaded where I can - but as I cant connect to Microsoft Im running out of ideas.
At the same time I was messing about with an old HP Pavillion running Vista - and exactly the same symptoms have occurred.
My thoughts are - it cant be a network adapter as it fails with wireless and with EThernet, (but I reloaded wireless drivers anyway).
I've got a sneaking suspicion there was a line in device driver for networking that doesn't appear there now -
anyone any ideas?
I was thinking of moving to W7 on it but I cant run the hardware checker.......