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Alright... to start off... I have recently moved. I have a desktop with Windows XP. At my previous house I was using wireless, until that started dropping out a lot, so I switched to wired. I remember that was kind of a pain to switch. Now at my new house, my roommate has wireless for his laptop which works fine. I've disabled the wired, enabled wireless, and I've "connected" to my roommates password protected network. But I still cannot get anything whenever I open Mozilla or Internet Explorer. I've tried updating the drivers, Repairing the connection, resetting the router itself, and pretty much everything else in Windows' help pages. Nothing seems to be working. I would think that theoretically since it says that I have a very good connection to the wireless that I would be connected... nothing else needed... but apparently that's not the case. And like I said, my roommates' computer is fine... since that's what I'm using to write this now. I'm fresh out of ideas, and so is my roommate. Can someone help in any way?? I really don't want to have to keep taking over my roommates computer to do any work or research.
Please help! Any ideas would be wonderful!

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Short, practical troubleshooting you can apply before (or while) pasting the network output that requested. Since 's wizard didn't fix it, the goal is to determine whether this is a DHCP/IP, DNS, routing, driver/utility, or firewall problem.

Look in the adapter details for these signs: an IP in the router's range (e.g. 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x) rather than an APIPA address (169.254.x.x); a valid Default Gateway and Subnet Mask; DNS server entries; and whether DHCP is enabled for the wireless adapter. If the IP looks wrong or missing DHCP, that points to an address assignment problem. If IP/gateway are present but browsing fails, that points to DNS or upstream routing/firewall.

Useful command-run sequence (open cmd.exe as admin):

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns
ping <router-ip>
ping 8.8.8.8
nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8
netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt

Interpretation notes: if ping to router fails, the adapter/association or AP settings are at fault. If router pings succeed but 8.8.8.8 fails, the router/internet uplink is the issue. If 8.8.8.8 responds but domain names fail, it's a DNS problem.

Also check GUI settings: TCP/IP properties set to obtain IP and DNS automatically; browser proxy settings disabled; any third-party firewall/antivirus temporarily disabled; whether Windows Zero Configuration or the vendor wireless utility is managing the NIC (try the other). Verify router DHCP pool and MAC filtering via the working laptop (do not post passwords). Post the requested adapter output so responders can confirm IP, gateway, DNS and DHCP status and give the next precise fix.

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run the internet conection wizard (go into network connections and click new conection on the sidebar)

Choose connect to the internet
Say you will configure it manually
Say its an always on/broadband connection
click ok
reboot

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Ok. Tried that... Still nothing...

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go start->run and type cmd; press enter.

please paste the output of this command (when ran on the broken computer):

ipconfig /all
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