Vista Home Networking problem...
My father has a brand new Dell computer with Vista Home Premium. He has a Linksys WRT54G router and wireless card with a cable modem. When I last left his house, his Internet connection and network were working fine. He had a power outage at the house. Now, the following is all true: 1) Over his wireless network, he can play music on his Roku Soundbridge from his computer. Thus, it would appear that the router is working wirelessly. 2) The cable company came out and hooked their computer directly to his cable modem and the Internet worked fine. So, this implies to me that the modem works and the router works. However, when we hook his computer directly to the Cable Modem, no Internet. When we hook the Cable Modem to the router and then try to connect wirelessly to the Internet, no Internet. In Network Center, it was that the access is Local only and there is a big red X between the Network and the Internet. Repair and Diagnose does not fix the problem. It feels like this is a Windows setting that got messed up in the power outage. Anyone have another idea? CMBat
May 8th, 2007 6:50am

Hi there, Did you manage to find any info on the problem? Im having a similar problem, and scratching my head a bit?
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June 6th, 2008 7:54pm

I don't think that he's going to answer you, as this thread is over a year old.Anyhoo... If your problem came about the same way that his did:Pull the power cords from both the modem and the router. If your modem is a cable telephony modem, and has an internal backup battery, remove it.Wait 15 minutes. Reconnect power to modem. Wait for it to get a line sync (pretty light show completes), and wait ~5 minutes. Reconnect power to the router. Wait ~5 minutes. You should now have working internets.If this works or not, please post back.
June 8th, 2008 7:48pm

Click on start, Right click on My computer, click on properties, click on Hardware Tab, click on Device Manager, click on Network adapter, Right click on network adapter, click on properties, check the status whether adapter is working properly, if disabled enable the adapter.There are two Network cards in your system. Wireless and ethernet.Check both work good.Click on start, click on Control panel, click on Network connections, right click on Local are network connection icon, click on properties and configure the network card and check the status of device. Do the ping test. Ping the loopback address 127.0.0.1 in command prompt by tping cmd in run and at command prompt loopback address.If you get response back in bytes.Ping the website address ping www.yahoo.com. If get reply back in bytes internet is connected.If not Type ipconfig /release then to renew the Ip address Type ipconfig /renew.Try connecting to internet.
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December 28th, 2010 9:28am

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