I can't connect to the internet.

[Tomoyo]

No, this is not some sort of bad joke. I wake up one day, and poof, no connection. I figure it's just some wiring problem so I check, and everything's fine. I just leave it for a while.

But now, two days later, it's still not connected. I have a cable modem and the only thing that responds when I ping it is my IP address. When I try to use the automated repair feature of windows, it gives me an error message saying "unable to flush the ARP cache". I have no idea what that means. (Also, when I use the command prompt thing, instead of just the usual "C:" to start the line, I get "C:Documents and Settings/Me")

I'm not sure what information would be necessary here, so I'll leave it at that.

 

[warpus]

Try

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

If that fails you could try calling your ISP and checking if they can ping your modem. If they can and it's online, then the problem lines on your end... which is likely the case

 

[Tomoyo]

Problem fixed. A simple reboot of the networkerthing solved it.

 

[Speedo]

Router?

10 chars

 

[Tomoyo]

Yep.


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[Speedo]

Check for a firmware update just in case. Few months ago mine was giving me absolute hell until I updated it.

Sometimes they do just need the power cycled though.

 

[Xanikk999]

This happens to me all the time with my cable modem.

Anyway if it happens again this is what i do-

I go to control panel and network connections and disable the connection then renew it.

I dont know why this works but it almost always works for me.