I can connect to any public network but have no internet access while everyone else around me does. I was always able to connect to my home network fine until a few days ago. Now every morning and after a few hours of having my laptop off when I turn it on it connects to my home network but to get internet I have to unplug the router for 10 seconds. Everyone else at home has no issue so its obviously not the router?
I have a dell inspiron using windows 7. The network card says it has the latest update.
When this happens at home it says connected with no internet access and the error message I receive from the network diagnostics tool is that the problem is the router and to reset it which I do. (however like I said no one else has this issue) When away from home and trying to get internet it says connected but limited connectivity and the diagnostics tool says there isnt a valid ip address. I try to renew the ip address but that doesnt work.
Ive googled every forum I can find and gone through every trouble shooting bit of advice others have been given for similar problems that I thought might possibly have anything to do with mine but to no avail.
Oh and the only thing I changed before I started having problems at home was to follow these steps...i went to the network and sharing center, clicked on change adapter settings, right clicked the wireless connection, highlighted internet protocol version 4, clicked on properties and added my gateway address manually. I opened it up today to reverse that but the box obtain IP address automatically IS checked and my ip address is not there to remove.
I even tried a restore point to about 3 weeks ago hoping that will fix the problem I have at home. Even if it does...I still have the problem with the public networks.
I hope someone can help...PLEASE