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Inspiron 6000 ethernet networking
I recently bought an Inspiron 6000 notebook for college. My dorm uses a LAN to connect to the internet, but when I connect to the network it tells me I am connected to the network but I can't search the web or anything like that. The computer says that packets were definitely sent but they are not recieved on my end. I use the standard Broadcom 440x10/100 Integrated Ethernet controller, I have run a diagonostic on the device and it is working properly, and I have installed and updated all the necessary drivers and I have restored my system back to its original state. If anyone has any suggestions as to the problem or what to try next, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you very much.
- Your dorm might be using a proxy server.You need to setup your Internet Explorer browser (assuming that's what you are using) properly.Go to Tools > Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings and fill up the information about the proxyserver.You need to get the proxy settings from your IT department. Normally they have it on their website.You can access your college's website from another computer e.g. in the library, another computerin the dorm, etc.
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Posted September 19th, 2005 19:00
Do you have any third party firewalls that may be improperly configured and blocking your internet access. If you suspect this may be the case, try disabling all firewalls as a troubleshooting step.
Steve