Problem connecting to internet

Turtles · 12 Apr 2008 at 10:21

Almost everytime I turn on my PC I get this:

I click repair, it sits for 2mins doing nothing. It then says it could not repair, I click repair a 2nd time and it works. It's always the same procedure.

ISP is AOL, Router is BT Voyager 2110

Also when I turn on my PC it takes 2mins for my icons to appear?

Any help much appreciated

tolien · 12 Apr 2008 at 11:05

"Limited or no connectivity" means it couldn't get an IP address from the router. It could be a hyperactive firewall or anything.

Craig321 · 12 Apr 2008 at 11:10

Wired or wireless?

If wireless try turning off the WPA/WEP and try again.

Turtles · 12 Apr 2008 at 21:15

It's wired.

My firewall settings seem fine. :confused:

Turtles · 14 Apr 2008 at 11:59

any ideas?

J.B · 14 Apr 2008 at 12:01

Perhaps you could try turning your DHCP off and asigning addresses manuly

tolien · 14 Apr 2008 at 12:30

At the very least, if it worked straight off with manually assigned IPs you'd know the issue was DHCP-related, rather than any more general network issue.

riddlermarc · 14 Apr 2008 at 14:15

My work laptop (T43 Thinkpad) does something similar in XP - occasionally (once a fortnight) it won't connect to my home WLAN and I have to do the Repair thing, even though it ends up saying it failed. After that it connects straight away and off I go.. I tried sorting it but I don't use the work lappy that much anymore at home so I'm not wasting time on sorting it.

It is set to static IP for the wireless and like I say it's not all the time just occasionally :/