Need Help with Free WiFi

[bhavsar_maulik]

Hey Guys,

I am not good at all these things so I will just describe the problem in a laymans language.

I live in Tokyo, Japan and recently bought a wireless dongle from viewsonic to access the internet from my desktop PC. It was working really well untill last night, and now suddenly it has stopped working.

What happens is that the Windows connection wizard shows that I am connected to the wireless internet provider and even the viewsonic software shows that I am connected to the internet with 11MBPS speed. But when I try to open a webpage, I cannot open any site!

When I tried to use the MSN messenger trouble shooter, it cleared all the tests except the DNS one and the ports... in the end it gave me a error code 80048820.

Any help will be appreciated!!!
Thanks
Kiluam

[M/Q]

This sounds simple, hopefully it will be. Get to a command prompt and type in the command ping www.yahoo.com. See what the results are. This should fail if you have a DNS issue. Next then type ping 68.142.226.46 (the address for www.yahoo.com) and see if that works. If it does then you have the wrong DNS servers listed for that wireless network connection. You will need to ask the provider what they are. Or if you are using DHCP (obtain address information automatically), then you are receiving the wrong information from the wireless provider. You will have to also call them and determine what is wrong.

[codecx]

I've had a similiar problem with my ISP in the past..

3 commands

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

in that order.
Give it a shot! you might just need to clean house. ;)
If not, yea call the ISP :)

[bhavsar_maulik]

Hey Thanks so much guys, never thought it could be so simple! Anyway I will give it a shot in the evening! Will get back with the results!
Kiluam