LAN Help!

[easypickingsere]

Hopefully someone can help. Got Virgin installed two days ago and not been able to connect my games machine to the router, either wired or wifi. My mrs tower is connected fine via ethernet and her laptop fine via wifi.

My machine is being assigned an ip addy tho I cannot connect to the internet, also when I run ping it comes back as request timed out and 100%loss. Both lights are green on pc and router.

Tried Virgins help and support n no use what so ever, asked me to do ipconfig and ping both of which I told them I'd done prior to ringing them. In conclusion told me it was a problem with the NIC, I know this! but they cant help any further.

Hopefully someone will know more about networks than my little knowledge and can help me out here.

Many thanks

Mark

[Gingerr6]

Make sure the LAN is set to DHCP not static.

If so in cmd run

Ipconfig /release
Then
Ipconfig /renew

[easypickingsere]

Thanks tho was one of the things I have tried.

Got it resolved and feel a right numpty. Turns out a half installed copy of my firewall has been blocking it. Went in to security centre and said firewall on, checked windows firewall which was off, reinstalled my own firewall and low n behold its working.

Ill go hang my head in shame in the corner >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

:D

[Lynx.1677]

Mate, I feel your pain. I had virgin installed last couple of weeks and I couldn't get my Xbox to see my PC since then. I tried everything, manual IP assignment, DNS etc but all seemed fine and it worked great before on BT broadband. When I logged onto my Virgin router it could see the Xbox connected but my damn xbox couldn't see my PC. I decided to try one last thing and disable the microsoft firewall. Tadaaaa, everything worked fine after that. As long as you have a 3rd part FW the MS firewall just causes so many problems.

[Planehazza]

I don't bother using firewalls at home. The router couple with Microsoft Security Essentials for anti virus does a good enough job for me :)

[Lynx.1677]

Routers don't stop incoming attacks really, we did a test once at work and had a new build that we put onto the open network to time how long before it was attacked. 12 seconds!! Quite scary really.