I can no longer connect to the internet with my Main Computer.  Help!!! Going on 3 weeks now.
Every one is so great on this site I hope you can help. Here goes:I have 4 computers on my wireless home network. Two laptops (Windows 7 & Mac OS 10) with internal wireless cards and two PCs (Windows XP) with Linksys wireless adapters. I use an Apple Airport Extreme (Model A1254) wireless access point.Three weeks ago, when Comcast Cable transitioned to all digital (I have my internet through them as well), I immediately lost internet access and wireless communication on all computers, printers and VOIP Phones.Because I was receiving a 169.xxx.x.x IP address on my main computer, I was instructed to and replaced my modem with a 1000BaseT model , replaced all ethernet cables with Cat6, and replaced the network card on my main PC with a D-Link 10/100/1000 mbps. Still no internet.The guys at Apple could not figure our why I could not connect so one changed my DNS server to a public one and all computers, except my main computer, immediately connected. They are now configured to obtain automatically and they are still connecting.When the Apple guys connected my ethernet cable from my main computer to the Airport Extreme, it would not connect and I received a 169 IP address and no DNS server address. When they connected my ethernet from my Airport to the other working laptops, they connected without problems and receive a valid IP addresses.They felt that some how the Comcast transition might have changed something with my networking/internet settings on my PC using Windows XP SP3 since my settings had been basically the same for 2 years. I have McAfee and Windows Firewall that I disable when I am trying to connect,When I look under connectivity in Systems Information, I have 0.0.0.0 for my IP address, subnet mask and dns serversDoes anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.2 people need an answerI do too
July 23rd, 2010 3:50am

My brother have this problem too there is internet connection in my laptop (vista) but he doesnt have on his pc (xp) and i tried all internet browser programs but there is no internet please help ( me and him are connected to the same DSL with cables not wireless)
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December 8th, 2010 3:03pm

Did you remove the ethernet cable from the main computer and try it in the ethernet port of one of the other computers? If this connection work for another computer, then we can just focus on the main computer. Router ports do die.
December 8th, 2010 11:26pm

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