PLEASE HELP ME!!!Hello, first of all thank you for taking the time to read this post.Okay so heres my situation. About a week ago I decided to reinstall windows XP (for various reasons) on one of my computers and remember at this time my internet was working perfectly. I had a Linksys wireless B network adapter connected to my Netgear 802.11 G gateway and I know that your not supposed to do that but I wasn't going to go by a new network adapter or hardwire it. But after I reinstalled my operating system and installed the Linksys network adapter everything was working fine. The next day I check my network connection and it says it has an excellent connection but when I try to connect to any website on both internet explorer and Firefox I can't and internet explorer says that it can't connect to my DNS server or DNS error. The next thing I do is try to ping a website and it works fine so I thought that was kind of odd. I couldn't figure out what the problem was so I had my internet provider send a technician out to see what the problem was and he couldn't find a solution and he told me what I was planning on doing anyways which was to buy another network adapter, one that matched my gateway. So I go out and buy a Wireless G network adapter take it home and install it and it still wont work. I try calling Netgear and Charter (My internet provider) again and they say its not a network problem its GOT to be a windows problem so therefor I have to contact microsoft with my problem.Can someone please help me out? I have ran Pagefix from Cnet and that did not work. Thank you for reading this, thank you. Aaron S.1 person needs an answerI do too

About a week ago I decided to reinstall windows XP (for various reasons) on one of my computers and remember at this time my internet was working perfectly. Aaron S.HiDoes it means that you have other computers that are using the same connection and Router, and they are working OK?In general.There is an inherent Catch22 in trying to repair a Wireless computer through Wireless. Since the Wireless is not connected to the source, there is No interaction between the Wireless source and the Wireless Client, and no frame of reference to find what is working and what is Not working.As a first step, I will move temporarily the computer to a spot near the Wireless Router and connect it with a wire.When it works with a wire, switch Off the Wireless Security in the Router, disconnect the wire, and try to make the Wireless work. This should be done while the computer is still near the Wireless Router to compensate for weak, and or blocked signal that might be part of the problem in the further away working spot.In the computer itself.Most Laptops have a physical switch for the Wireless card. Read the computer's manual and make sure that the Wireless card is On.Check the Device Manager for valid Wireless card entry.http://www.ezlan.net/Win7/net_dm.jpgIf there is No valid entry, delete any Bogus Entry, and re-install the Wireless card's Drivers.Check the Network connections to make sure that you have a Wireless Network Connection Icon/Entry, and that the Properties of the Icon (right click on the Icon) are correctly configured with TCP/IPv4 protocol in the Network Connections Properties.http://www.ezlan.net/Win7/net_connection_tcp.jpgMake sure that if there is a vendor's Wireless Utility the utility is Not Running together with the Windows native Wireless utility.Make sure that No Firewall is preventing/blocking the Wireless components to get to the Network.If everything above is OK and it is not connecting to the Wireless router. Log from any computer that is, or can be connected to Wireless Router with a Wire, disable the Wireless Security, make sure that the Wireless broadcast is On, and try to connect with No Wireless security.When working turn On the Wireless security.Note* People sometimes make mistakes in writing and retyping the security passphrase.Alternative way is to copy it from the Router's menu, and then paste when asked by the Wireless card.--------------------------------------------------I really checked and configured every thing and it does Not work.Software Firewall application that is Not configured to allow local traffic (between the computer and the Router is a possible issue too.some 3rd party Software Firewalls keep blocking aspects of Local Traffic even it they are turned Off (disabled). If possible configure the Firewall correctly, or totally uninstall it to allow clean flow of local network traffic. If the 3rd party software is uninstalled or disables, make sure that Windows native Firewall is On .Jack-MVP Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET