Majorly confusing internet issue

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Vanya First Officer
Joined: Feb 14, 2007 Posts: 100 Location: I'll have to get back to you on that
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Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:10 pm

Last night both of my computer's internet connections failed, within seconds of each other. One is a hardwired desktop and the other is a wireless laptop. My parents computers, a hardwired Mac and two wireless laptops, still work fine. Reseting the Modem didn't work, nor did reseting our Linksys WRT350N router.

My desktop is running XP SP2 with a static IP of 192.168.1.136
My laptop is running Vista Business with a static IP of 192.168.1.137

Seting the computers to use an automatically assigned IP didn't work.

Both my computers can connect to and access the router with no problem. I don't want to change any of the router's settings without knowing what they do.

I've heard other people complain about this issue, and smoe others have suggested the prolem has to do with DHCP.

Can anyone help me figure this out? If I need to provide extra info, just let me know.

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Vanya First Officer
Joined: Feb 14, 2007 Posts: 100 Location: I'll have to get back to you on that
Answered
Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:27 pm

Problem solved. What did I do? Absolutely nothing. My internet just started working again.

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Welshflyer Captain
Joined: Oct 22, 2006 Posts: 980 Location: South Wales
Answered
Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:24 am

Modern technology is a wonderful thing, isn't it? 😕

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Vanya First Officer
Joined: Feb 14, 2007 Posts: 100 Location: I'll have to get back to you on that
Answered
Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:15 am

Welshflyer wrote:

Modern technology is a wonderful thing, isn't it? 😕

🙄

I just don't understand how it can fail on two of five computers simultaneously and then come back the same way.

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Concorde105 First Officer
Joined: Sep 03, 2006 Posts: 145
Answered
Sat May 10, 2008 3:43 pm

Vanya wrote:

Problem solved. What did I do? Absolutely nothing. My internet just started working again.

That's weird. Normally, I restart the router cause my Mac laptop crashes it, but if restarting doesn't work, doing nothing does???

(odd)

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VegasFlyer Chief Captain
Joined: Jul 14, 2005 Posts: 1149
Answered
Thu May 15, 2008 1:50 pm

Welshflyer wrote:

Modern technology is a wonderful thing, isn't it? 😕

It certainly is Welsh! 😀

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 22, 2007 Posts: 1140 Location: Pittsburgh PA
Answered
Thu May 15, 2008 7:23 pm

Sounds like it was your ISP not your equipment. You sure you paid your bill?

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