Monday, May 31, 2010

Laptop says connected to home WiFi or Wireless router, but still no internet connection or activity?


Problem: You are trying to connect to your home WiFi or Wireless interenet. It says it is connected but you can not browse interenet because your browser(s) (e.g. Interent Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.)complains that there is no internet connection or can not find website you are looking for (e.g it may say; can not find) www.google.com !!! and your connection was working just fine two days ago!

Solution:
There might be many reasons, but 90% of the times, this helps:

Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections > LAN settings > UNCHECK the item which says "use a proxy server for your LAN"




There is also same setting options under menus of your browser, usually under tools > options > ....