I think first thing you should do is to check the network connection of the PC to the router.

Do Start->run->enter 'cmd' and hit 'OK'. Now you have the command prompt.

Enter: ping 'ip-adress of your router' and hit 'Enter'.

If you don't know the IP of your router, check the manual. Normaly it's something like 192.168.0.1
You should get 4 answers to that ping-request.
If you do so, try to ping the internet:

In the command prompt, enter: ping www.google.com

You also should get 4 answers.
If you do, then your IE is probably blocked up with spyware (as a suggestion).



Michael

1. Also at the DOS prompt, type the following command to verify that your computer's IP address, the gateway IP, DNS server IP, etc. are configured correctly.

2. If you can ping the IP of the router, but cannot ping "www.google.com", try pinging Google by its IP address instead of its URL:

ping 66.102.7.147

3. What exactly does happen when you try to surf with your browser? Please give us more detail on that, including any error essages that you receive.

When I try to surf the browser I get the usual error message that the website (whatever one I am trying to access) cannot be accessed. When I attempt to sign on to AOL (broadband) I get a message that "your computer could not get an internet conection" then sub script "there may be a network problem." Incidentally, I tried to ping google as per the first response and I did get four answers. I tried running a spyware scan and found no files infected.

Sorry, newbie that I am I posted the last response wrong so here it is again:
When I try to surf the browser I get the usual error message that the website (whatever one I am trying to access) cannot be accessed. When I attempt to sign on to AOL (broadband) I get a message that "your computer could not get an internet conection" then sub script "there may be a network problem." Incidentally, I tried to ping google as per the first response and I did get four answers. I tried running a spyware scan and found no files infected.

Also When I pinged my ip address I got four "Request timed out" messages, 4 packets sent, 0 received, 100% lost.

Don't sweat the "newbie" thing; we''l get you sorted out.

4 positive responses would be correct if your ping succeded. Was that when you pinged Google by using "www.google.com", or by pinging "66.102.7.147"?


The IP address of your own computer's network card failed? Given that you said above that you could ping Google, that doesn't make sense.

- Is your router set up to provide your computers with their IP info automatically via DCHP, or do you maunually enter the IP address, subnet mask, gateway IP, etc. in each computer's network properties?

- On the problematic machine, please run the following command from a DOS prompt and post the information that the command returns:

ipconfig /all

- On the problematic machine, do the following ping command and tell us the result:

ping 127.0.0.1

- Just for reference, what exact model of belkin router are you using?

The ipconfig/all prompt got the following response:
Host Name: Your-o0kwkw9jwc
Primary DNS Suffix:
Node tyhpe: Hybrid
IP Routing Enables: No
WINS Proxy Enabled: No
DNS Suffix Search List: Belkin

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 4:
Connectin-specific DNS Suffix: Belkin
Description: Realtek RTL 8139 family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
Ethernet NIC
\Physical Addreww: 00-0C-6E-AA-D4-9B
Dhcp Enabled:Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled: yes
IP Address: 192.168.2.67
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default: 192.168.2.1
DHCP Server: 192.168.2.1
DNS Servers: 192.168.2.1
Lease obtained: Tuesday, February 08, 2005,11:25:49 pm
Lease Expires: Monday January 8, 2038 10:14:07 pm


The ping 127.0.0.1 command got the following response:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes+32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes+32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes+32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes+32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping Statistics for 127.0.0.1:
Packets: Sent+4, Received+4, Lost+0 (0% Loss)
Approximate round trip times in milliseconds:
Minimum=0ms, Maximum 0ms, Average=0ms

The Router is a belkin 2.4 Ghz, B02.11b Wireless

Can you connect to anything else like a messenger program or online video game?

It must be an Internet-Explorer problem. Could be a hijacker or something similar. Did you try Spybot aswell, or eScan?

Spybot => http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

eScan => http://www.mwti.net/antivirus/free_utilities.asp

hijackthis! => http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html


By the way: seems like a good opportunity to get rid of IE and switch to a different browser:

www.mozilla.org




Michael