Well here's Hotgreen messing up his internet again

[Hotgreensoldier]

goto your router my young padawan

I look on the back of it and hit the magical RESET key

Yes...As I've said I have reset it many times, even hard reset it. Nothing.

[Loke]

Your router might be dead.

[Hotgreensoldier]

Your router might be dead.

For crying out loud. Guess I have to put it in big font

I found out that it isn't the router/modem that's causing the problem. If I connect the ethernet cable to this laptop specifically, it still works.

From what it looks like, the computer isn't receiving the dhcp address from the router and keeps giving itself a local IP.

I've already tried the following

cmd prompt "netsh winsock renew"
cmd prompt "ipconfig /release  ipconfig /renew  ipconfig /dnsflush"
Restarting the router and modem SEVERAL times.
Manually putting an IP instead of the obtain automatically option
Disabled and re-enabled the Local Area Connection internet adapter
Checked on the gateway website (through this laptop) and saw that this laptop was the only one accessing the network

The router's ports are working. There's nothing wrong with the cable. The router works completely fine LAC on the laptop AND WiFi. It's just not connecting to the DESKTOP.

[Alkaline]

Manually putting an IP instead of the obtain automatically option

Did you manually change the IP on your laptop AND change the setting in your router AND modem to Static IP?
You have to change all three or your router may start handing out renewed IPs.

Once you have set an IP specifically for your laptop, forward the ports for the game you want to host on both your modem and router.

[Hotgreensoldier]

Did you manually change the IP on your laptop AND change the setting in your router AND modem to Static IP?
You have to change all three or your router may start handing out renewed IPs.

Once you have set an IP specifically for your laptop, forward the ports for the game you want to host on both your modem and router.

I'm not talking about the laptop....I'm using the laptop as a way to access the internet.

I didn't set a static IP for the desktop before I forwarded the ports, I'm assuming that's why it didn't work when I tried setting up the server thing.

Either way, no, I didn't.

If you mean me trying to put the IP of the router and setting a new one instead to try and fix it, I didn't change any settings with the router or the router. Just put one of the IPs the router would use for a computer.

[Tomcat]

Thake the router and run over it with a car that should fix it.

But on a serious note did you check to see that the physical connection (computer port is fine) try bridging the wifi connection from the laptop to the pc. Connect to the router from your lappy using WiFi then connect the Ethernet cable from the laptop to your pc. Then goto your change adapter settings menu on lappy select the two right click and bridge them.

[Hotgreensoldier]

Thake the router and run over it with a car that should fix it.

But on a serious note did you check to see that the physical connection (computer port is fine) try bridging the wifi connection from the laptop to the pc. Connect to the router from your lappy using WiFi then connect the Ethernet cable from the laptop to your pc. Then goto your change adapter settings menu on lappy select the two right click and bridge them.

Alright, tried what you did.

The computer had the same result, unidentified network, no internet access. The bridge couldn't connect, or something along those lines.

So that proves it has something to do with the computer itself. I'm really hoping it isn't the network adapter hardware.

[blαh2355]

It probably is the network adapter hardware. I mean, you reset like everything. Most likely a hardware problem.

[Hotgreensoldier]

It probably is the network adapter hardware. I mean, you reset like everything. Most likely a hardware problem.

But I don't see how rebooting the router/forwarding the ports can fuck up the hardware...