Re: Win 7 no wireless internet access

Hi Jeff

AT&T gives you a private address for a DNS server? That sounds kinda strange. I have a router between my cable modem (Comcast) and I would get the router's address for DNS - I don't trust it, so I manually set the DNS, while I let the router's DHCP handle my IP address internally.

Not sure if any of that helps, though.

Oh, if you can figure out the port for DNS, you might try ping to that address with the port specified - if you can in Windows - that might tell you more.

Regards
Vern

On 7/1/2011 7:50 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

I took my Win7 Ultimate laptop to my son's condo in Chicago this week.
I could connect to his wireless network, but could not get internet
access (AT&T DSL). The Windows network troubleshooter said the issue
was the DNS server was not responding, but I could ping that IP
address (a private 192.168.x.x address) and get a response. IPCONFIG
/FLUSHDNS, IPCONFIG /RELEASE, IPCONFIG /RENEW did not help. I poked
around looking at settings, but didn't change anything as it would
have been guesses. I COULD connect to an ethernet jack in his router
and all was well.

Now that I am back home, I cannot connect wireless to the internet
here either! And I've been doing that forever. I connect to the
wireless, but get 'no internet access'. I swear I've changed no
settings.

Suggestions? I'm still on vacation, so I'll be in and out all day.

Thanks.