how do you repair internet?

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AMDX2

in windows xp you can click on the repair button to repair a connection. how
do you do this in vista? i have looked for 20 minutes or so and can't find
anything. nothing i tried either worked. i installed a new cable
modem/router combined and now have a new lan ip type stuff. it won't get the
new ip etc, it is keeping the old one. so how can i repair?
 
Try using Diagnose. It's in the context menu (right-click) of the
connection icon in your tray, or look in the Network Center for it.
 
I have and it doesn't fix anything. It just sits there doing nothing except
scrolling the bar left to right. When it does something all it does is tell
me I can only connect to the local lan. re3booting pc also doesn't fix it.
disable then re enable the network connection or even creating a new one
doesn't do anything. and each time it's still getting the other routers ip,
not the new one.
 
That may not fix it. Don't know about Vista but sometimes in XP you have to
do a reboot after ipconfig /release before it will connect to a different
DHCP server.
 
True.
Well for some reason vista fixed itself eventually. it said it couldn't
connect and then i clicked a button in that window and finally it connected.
so maybe it was a dhcp lease time timemout thing that it had to wait for the
dhcp to loose its lease.
 
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