Troubleshooter starts with "are you a moron" questions, goes through "have you tried turning it off and on again" questions, then asks me to check the drivers (I DL'd one from the Netgear website BTW) then goes off on weird tangents that make no sense, because it's just a generic Windows thing.
I suspect there's something wrong with my hosts or DNS, and TalkTalk are being really cranky anyway, I might set it to override their DNS and give me a proper service, but that shouldn't be the issue. IT's just weird.
And yeah, the icon did scream out as the most appropriate ever.
I managed to get myself into exactly that kind of trouble doing some performance tuning a while back....
Are the following Services running and starting automatically? - DHCP Client - Remote Access Auto Connection Manager - Remote Access Connection Manager - Remote Procedure Call (RPC) - Routing and Remote Access - Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
All of the above must be running and set to 'Automatic' in order to use a network. (You can safely disable some of them if you're connecting directly from your PC. The reason I know this is because I did it and discovered the hard way what you can and can't disable on a networked PC. All in the name of eeking out that little bit extra performance!)
1. Take computer and place on concrete 2. Get large and heavy hammer 3. Hit computer many many times 4. Have a cup of tea/coffee/beverage of your choice 5. Hit computer many many times 6. Ring insurance company and say "It fell down the stairs, honest it did" 7. Hit computer many many times 8. Read a book instead of browsing the internet
If you were a bit closer I may have been able to help, but I'm more of a "fix the hardware" guy than a "fix the connections" guy. Sorry.
Check/change your TCP/IP Settings from auto to specific or the other way around. Same for DNS. See if that helps.
Do an ipconfig /all from the command line, see if you have an IP. If you do, try an ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew to see if the IP changes and if that helps.
Possibly, check on your router to check that the IP lease for the laptop isn't the same as the desktop, so that only the first one on gets an IP.
Unfortunately, I don't really have admin access to the router, but pretty sure that's not the problem because it happens even without the laptop booted up.
I have an IP, renewing it hasn't helped, but yeah, pretty sure it's the DNS-guess I'd better go look up some decent local DNS servers I can force it onto.
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I suspect there's something wrong with my hosts or DNS, and TalkTalk are being really cranky anyway, I might set it to override their DNS and give me a proper service, but that shouldn't be the issue. IT's just weird.
And yeah, the icon did scream out as the most appropriate ever.
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Are the following Services running and starting automatically?
- DHCP Client
- Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
- Remote Access Connection Manager
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
- Routing and Remote Access
- Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
All of the above must be running and set to 'Automatic' in order to use a network. (You can safely disable some of them if you're connecting directly from your PC. The reason I know this is because I did it and discovered the hard way what you can and can't disable on a networked PC. All in the name of eeking out that little bit extra performance!)
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- DHCP Client
Yes
- Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
Is set to run, but is showing as 'stopped'
- Remote Access Connection Manager
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Both show as running, but the RPC locator is showing as stopped.
- Routing and Remote Access
Can't find this listed anywhere, searching the support files isn't getting me anything either.
- Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
Running.
So it's possibly something to do with the remote access connection manager, etc? OK, I'll start googling, any suggestions greatfully received though.
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Good luck with it!
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1. Take computer and place on concrete
2. Get large and heavy hammer
3. Hit computer many many times
4. Have a cup of tea/coffee/beverage of your choice
5. Hit computer many many times
6. Ring insurance company and say "It fell down the stairs, honest it did"
7. Hit computer many many times
8. Read a book instead of browsing the internet
If you were a bit closer I may have been able to help, but I'm more of a "fix the hardware" guy than a "fix the connections" guy. Sorry.
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Check/change your TCP/IP Settings from auto to specific or the other way around. Same for DNS. See if that helps.
Do an ipconfig /all from the command line, see if you have an IP. If you do, try an ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew to see if the IP changes and if that helps.
Possibly, check on your router to check that the IP lease for the laptop isn't the same as the desktop, so that only the first one on gets an IP.
After that, chuck it :-)
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I have an IP, renewing it hasn't helped, but yeah, pretty sure it's the DNS-guess I'd better go look up some decent local DNS servers I can force it onto.
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