I have a laptop that I usually run on a wi-fi connection. Well, for the first time ever last night I just tried to hook it up directly to cable modem and I can’t get anything.
The system acknowledges that the modem is there (it tells me what speed it’s running at) but I hit mozilla and get nothing.
“Little or no connectivity” is what it’s giving me. Can anybody help me out?
Here are the basics of what I do when I have that problem.
Unplug modem and router and wait for about a minute
Plug in router first, let it do it’s thing, then about 20 secons later plug in router
Plug laptop into a free port on the router
If you still have the problem, you should see a little bubble on the lower right hand corner, which I guess was showing you “little to no connectivity”. If you right click on that, and select “repair” that usually takes care of alot of problems.
I these steps don’t work, you can go to Start > Run > cmd/enter > type ipconfig /release > then when it finishes type ipconfig /renew. For some strange reason this tends to take care of alot of problems with my router. Hopefully this works for you.
Well, it wouldn’t renew the ip. Then I got the idea, that if I turned off the modem, it would resend it and the computer would automatically renew it at that point.