Author Topic: Internet Connection Question (Read 880 times)

AKSWulfe · « **on:** January 03, 2002, 09:39:00 AM »

My home PC (Win98) was working fine before I went on away for about a week. I get back home, and for some odd reason can not browse the internet. I can't ping, tracert, run ubilobby or basically anything that runs as a window in Windows.... BUT Kali works (kind of, I can see the games list) and I *CAN* connect to Aces High no problem. I get spikes, but at the time I logged in there was 400+ players online so I think the spikes were more because of that.

So, anyone got any ideas why half my internet works? Do you think it's my system itself, or my ISP is porked again? (MSN)

I use a 56K dial up.

Thanks!
-SW

Eagler · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2002, 09:51:00 AM »

my guess would be your ISP

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2002, 09:53:00 AM »

I'm hoping your right Eagler, I haven't had a chance to check it today. I'll let you know (if I can ;-) when I get home.

Thanks for the reply!
-SW

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2002, 10:24:00 AM »

You can't ping IP adresses?

That doesn't sound like an ISP problem... unless you can ping them, just not anyone else.

If you can ping IP adresses, it sounds like there is a DNS issue... and that would be your ISP's fault. You aren't by chance an Earthlink subsciber are you? (or subscribe to someone bought out by earthlink?)

AKDejaVu

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2002, 10:31:00 AM »

MSN user unfortunately...

I can't ping, tracert, telnet, run ubilobby(interface for hooking up for Il-2 games), or browse the internet. I can run Aces High and log into it, everything looks normal except a few spikes. No "Not recieving UDP, switching to TCP" messages, so I assume that something is fubar somewhere.

When I tried to ping, I didn't use a dotted quad, I tried a few sites.

It would just sit there and hang.

When I browsed the internet, it would ping the site once, never get anything back and try again. Eventually it would just time out.
-SW

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #5 on:** January 03, 2002, 10:53:00 AM »

Ah.. so you used the "www.hitechcreations.com" when you pinged?

Really sounds like a DNS server problem. Either its down or they changed em around on you.

AKDejaVu

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #6 on:** January 03, 2002, 10:56:00 AM »

yeah, I used the address...

Except, here's the funky thing: The other machine in the house CAN connect to the internet using the same MSN account but a different modem. Only problem, though, is that it ONLY connects at 36000bps. It's a 56K modem and normally connects at between 46000bps and 50666bps.

Perhaps it'll be working tonite... I sure hope so.
-SW

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #7 on:** January 03, 2002, 10:59:00 AM »

Oh, and the machine it works on is Me.

I checked the internet settings and even when I set them the same on my 98 machine, no go.
-SW

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #8 on:** January 03, 2002, 11:40:00 AM »

Still gonna stick with a DNS problem here. Make sure you have the same primary and backup DNSs... and stop by your ISP's site and see if they list even more.

AH and Kali are working because they are IP driven (internally) and don't require any DNS lookups. One sure way to find out would be to try to look up a website by its IP addy instead of its Domain Name.

AKDejaVu

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #9 on:** January 03, 2002, 11:44:00 AM »

Okay, thanks DJ. Hopefully it'll be fixed when I get home. I'll check my primary/secondary DNS servers and make sure they haven't updated them too.

Thanks again.
-SW

Zippatuh · « **Reply #10 on:** January 03, 2002, 01:00:00 PM »

SW – I have a cable connection that was installed when it was first available in my area. One day something similar happened where it appeared my Internet connection was down. After reading through the setup instructions I had all of the proxy settings correct; however, after talking to a friend who had just setup their cable was told a different proxy setting.

Once I changed it everything worked again. My particular change was to search for proxy instead of naming it.

Good luck.

Zippatuh

bloom25 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 03, 2002, 05:13:00 PM »

If you didn't do anything to the system it is going to be DNS related. DNS means Domain name server - basically you send the name of the website you want to visit to it and it returns back the real IP address. (Example (not a real one) you send www.google.com and it sends back 192.168.25.231.) The fact that AH works is because it doesn't bother with a DNS lookup and just contacts the IP address of the server directly since it already knows it. I'll bet if you pinged an IP directly it would work...

Contact your ISP and tell them your problem and if they have any idea what they are doing they will tell you the same. It's their problem and *hopefully* they will get it fixed soon.

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #12 on:** January 03, 2002, 06:16:00 PM »

Okay, I fixed it- it was local to my machine. I didn't bother to check last night to compare, but the DNS settings in the Dial Up Networking managed to revert back to older settings that I used for my Erol's account.

Any idea how that could possibly happen?
-SW

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #13 on:** January 03, 2002, 09:33:00 PM »

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Any idea how that could possibly happen?

Yeah.. and if you don't stop you could go blind.

AKDejaVu