NEW ADSL but now can not connect to network WIN 2K professional LA

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OK 3 days of struggling and I need HELP!

Here is what I have determined:
My LAPTOP PC can not connect via dial up, NIC or wireless. This PC is
connected via a linksys wireless modem (which does not impact dial up
obviously).

Dial up:
I am able to ping outside IP addresses including Google, but can not use DNS
names. Ping www.google.com produces unknown host message. This connection
is trying to go through my companies VPN and that is when it can not resolve
the connection name.

NIC and wireless card:
If I set connection properties to obtain IP and DNS setting automatically.
I can not access any thing and have an IP address assigned up 164.254.xxx.xxx
subnet mask 255.255.0.0
If I use static IP information for the router and DNS:
I can ping


Static settings are IP address 192.168.1.104
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers 216.68.4.10
216.68.5.10

And finally this laptop worked find before I switched from a satellite
internet provider to ADSL.

Thanks for any and all help,
Fred.
 
fnova said:
OK 3 days of struggling and I need HELP!

Here is what I have determined:
My LAPTOP PC can not connect via dial up, NIC or wireless. This PC is
connected via a linksys wireless modem (which does not impact dial up
obviously).

Dial up:
I am able to ping outside IP addresses including Google, but can not
use DNS names. Ping www.google.com produces unknown host message.
This connection is trying to go through my companies VPN and that is
when it can not resolve the connection name.
Click to expand...

What kind of VPN? Did you try selecting "use remote gateway" in the TCP/IP
properties of the VPN client?
NIC and wireless card:
If I set connection properties to obtain IP and DNS setting
automatically.
I can not access any thing and have an IP address assigned up
164.254.xxx.xxx subnet mask 255.255.0.0
Click to expand...

That means your computer couldn't get an address from a DHCP server. What's
doing DHCP? If you type in ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew (in a
command prompt) what errors do you see?
If I use static IP information for the router and DNS:
I can ping


Static settings are IP address 192.168.1.104
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers 216.68.4.10
216.68.5.10

And finally this laptop worked find before I switched from a satellite
internet provider to ADSL.
Click to expand...

What is your ADSL modem connected to? Is this device handling PPPoE and
DHCP?
 
VPN is Nortel Networks Contivity VPN client.
Can not find anywhere to specify use remote gateway.
This dialup configuration has worked for 3+ years, not
sure why ADSL would mess up dial up.

The error I receive when I issue the IPCONFIG /RENEW when
connected via a dynamic IP connection is DHCP Server is
unreachable. I realize my problem is the DHCP piece and
not being able to resolve addresses, I just have not been
able to figure out how to resolve it.


The ADSL modem is hooked to a LINKSYS wireless router 4
port, I have an XP desktop that is running fine through
it. The problem is the 2000 desktop seems to be having
DHCP problems.
 
VPN is Nortel Networks Contivity VPN client.
Can not find anywhere to specify use remote gateway.
This dialup configuration has worked for 3+ years, not
sure why ADSL would mess up dial up.

The error I receive when I issue the IPCONFIG /RENEW when
connected via a dynamic IP connection is DHCP Server is
unreachable. I realize my problem is the DHCP piece and
not being able to resolve addresses, I just have not been
able to figure out how to resolve it.


The ADSL modem is hooked to a LINKSYS wireless router 4
port, I have an XP desktop that is running fine through
it. The problem is the 2000 desktop seems to be having
DHCP problems.
 
fnova said:
*VPN is Nortel Networks Contivity VPN client.
Can not find anywhere to specify use remote gateway.
This dialup configuration has worked for 3+ years, not
sure why ADSL would mess up dial up.

The error I receive when I issue the IPCONFIG /RENEW when
connected via a dynamic IP connection is DHCP Server is
unreachable. I realize my problem is the DHCP piece and
not being able to resolve addresses, I just have not been
able to figure out how to resolve it.


The ADSL modem is hooked to a LINKSYS wireless router 4
port, I have an XP desktop that is running fine through
it. The problem is the 2000 desktop seems to be having
DHCP problems.
Click to expand...

i think that reason maybe your adsl not config Visual server , becaus
when you use modem every port is open ,but when you use adsl every por
is close . if you want to use VPN i think u should open port at adsl


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ltson12a13
 
Everyone thanks for the replies.

My problem actually ending up being my TCP/IP settings. Specifically RWIN
and MTU values that I had changed using Dr TCP when I used Direcway Satellite
for my ISP. When I went back to old settings everything began to work
again on the laptop. Luckily I had kept a copy of my original settings
before I changed them for satellite access and using them was the trick.

So the lesson here is keep backups (word documents work great) of before and
after settings when tweaking. You never know when a tweak may go wrong and
it may not be obvious right away.
 
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