Re: Can connect to network, not internet

From: Russell W. Coover (r.coover.nospam_at_nospam.verizon.net)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:51:41 -0700

Try turning off the firewall and then trying to connect. If this works,
uninstall the firewall, and install another. For example, if you are using
Zone Alarm, uninstall it and install the Sygate Personal Firewall (free
edition). Both are equally as good as the other.

Russ Coover

"Tony Allen" <tony.all@nbc.net> wrote in message
news:OjSOaQ2oEHA.1988@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> My guess is something amiss in the tcp/ip related stack of code
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> "Jake" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:39d601c4a362$5bd00b20$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> I pinged various sites, and got quick replies from each.
>> Right now I'm going through a bunch of the IE registry
>> stuff to look for suspicious entries.
>>
>> If it's just the browser, however, why wouldn't it work
>> with other browsers like Mozilla Firefox?
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>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Can you be assured you do have an internet connection
>> and that you are just
>> >getting the page not found when using the browser.
>> >
>> >Use the command prompt and try doing a ping to an known
>> address and see if
>> >you are indeed connected but just having browser
>> problems.
>> >
>> >Or not
>> >
>> >Can you try a dial up connection (your account -
>> or 'borrow' one for a
>> >little bit) to see if THAT works. If it does, and your
>> browser seems fine
>> >there, at least we know the browser is ok.
>> >
>> >I'm sure you've checked all the requisite TCP/IP IP,
>> DNS. etc. stuff?
>> >Dynamic? Static?
>> >
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