Networks

Ask something
Question Locked

IE can't resolve webpage when I'm wireless

0 helpful
5 replies

by campbelle

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

My laptop had been acting fine until I tried to install wireless router at home. Before home wifi router I was able to use other wifi hotspots.
When I try and connect it says I'm connected. I can even go to CMD prompt and ping www.yahoo.com and have it resolve the address. When I try to open a link in IE it immediately tries to resolve by IP address, but never connects.
At work we have a Proxy setting, so when I am outside of work I manually go to IE Tools-Internet Options-Connections-LAN Settings and uncheck the proxy.

5 replies

by campbelle

I was thinkning that this was a DNS issue. So I did ipconfig /flushdns & /registerdns
but that did nothing.
I did try to connect to my companies internet mail and was able to get onto that. which again brings me pack to thinking it is a proxy issue.

by syphersoul(sp)

uninstall ie if u updated to 7 go back to 6
and if that doesn't work
try mozilla firefox or even opera

by campbelle

I can't get rid of IE as it is a corporate laptop. Could this be a Services related issue? Or...If I do an IPCONFIG /all on the machine that isn't working it shows AutoConfiguration Enabled: NO on the other machines it is YES

by alphatech9

You don't have to get rid of IE to run another browser.

I have IE, Firefox, Netscape and Opera all running on my laptop. That way when I design a website I can make sure it works in all of them the same way....

In your case at least if you try another browser you can confirm whether it is a browser issue or something else in the config.

This discussion is closed to new replies.