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Where'd the got damn internet go!?!?

StonecutterStonecutter Registered User regular
edited July 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm SURE this has been asked and answered before, and I'm SURE if I just poked around long enough I'd figure out how to fix it myself, but I've not had any luck as of yet and I'm tired of farting around, so here I am...

I got a new cable modem (Motorola SB5101.) I called my ISP, registered the new MAC address, installed all the software etc etc etc. I can access the internet with Firefox and Aim, but I cannot with IE, iTunes, WMP or any games. What do I need to fiddle with to fix this?

Windows XP Home SP2

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  • nescientistnescientist Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Have you tried restarting your machine yet? I know that's a crappy excuse for advice, but IE not working while Firefox does is very, very weird. And windows for reasons I may never understand likes to be restarted when very very weird things happen.

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  • StonecutterStonecutter Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Yeppers, and I power cycled the modem and router. Multiple times in fact. Tried shutting down the firewalls too, no dice.

    Edit: Oh yeah, uTorrent can connect to peers too, though the connection is weird... can't stay consistant. I think that might be a port issue though and I'm not worried about that.

    Honestly at this point I'd just like to be able to update my podcasts and access CDDB.

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  • Jimmy KingJimmy King Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Check your windows firewall settings. I've seen people with the built in windows firewall turned on have it just start blocking crap, including IE, totally at random a number of times in the past.

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  • wmelonwmelon Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    you may also want to check and see if your proxy setting got turned on by accident. all 3 of those programs you listed as not working will take that setting from windows.

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  • StonecutterStonecutter Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    wmelon wrote: »
    you may also want to check and see if your proxy setting got turned on by accident. all 3 of those programs you listed as not working will take that setting from windows.

    How exactly would I do that...

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  • wmelonwmelon Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    it's in internet options in control panel, click the connections tab and then the lan settings button.

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  • SandsSands Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Oh yeah, uTorrent can connect to peers too, though the connection is weird... can't stay consistant.

    This problem occurs on my computer as well - the internet connection drops frequently while using this program, and therefore I must prompt my internet connection to "retry" 1 second after this occurs, however the dropped connection still resets my seed/leach ratio :x

    Quite the hassle really.. You and me both, I haven't the slightest clue why my connection drops while using utorrent - I figured it was some security measure preventing us from downloading files - Perhaps my internet provider drops my line when I exceed a set amount of bandwidth, while downloading? Cause utorrent really steals all my megahertz when I'm downloading, and am pretty much reduced to leaving the computer be until the downloads are finished because everything else takes ages to load. :|

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  • StonecutterStonecutter Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    wmelon wrote: »
    it's in internet options in control panel, click the connections tab and then the lan settings button.


    BINGO! Sweet! thank you so much.

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