LAN Connection

[WingYn]

I've been dealing with my LAN connection for quite a long time and been searching for solutions too. Now I have a problem I cant find any way to continue my tests. I hope I can get some help in here.

In the beginning, my network card couldn't recognize that i have a LAN cable plugged in. After I searched alot of forums, I found out I could change the hardware settings regarding speed & full duplex. I had 4 options. 10 mbit half or full. Both these didn't do anything. 100 mbit half or full. Either one of these made it possible to recognize I had a cable plugged it.

But then I have another problem. I cant obtain any ip address from my router. I cant ping the router either.

When I enable my LAN connection on my laptop, the other wireless laptops loses their access to the internet too. Which supposedly is an ip conflict. I tried turning the pc's off, only having my laptop on. Even turning the router and modem off too.

So I tried making a static ip address, then it says "connected" but still, I cant ping the router.

Anybody have any suggestions?

[ua549]

The issue appears to be a mis-configuration of the PC, router or both.

How is your router configured?
Are there DHCP addresses available?
Usually PC hardware is set to auto negotiate speed and duplex mode with the router/switch.
What is the pc's operating system and version?
Note that routers can be configured to ignore ICMP packets. That includes ping packets.

[WingYn]

My router got 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.199 ip adresses to give.

Yeah it was on auto. But it couldn't recognize that I have plugged in the LAN cable.

It's windows XP SP3.

I can ping the router with the other computers, so I dont think it will ignore it. :S

Btw, I have even wired my laptop directly to the modem. Without the router. I also wont get access to the internet. :S

[ua549]

I presume the ip range you listed in your post is a typo.
Open a CMD window, enter ipconfig /all and post the results.

[WingYn]

This is a picture with the ipconfig -all. But it's with static ip.

[WingYn]

When I make a ipconfig -all with automatic obtain... I will not get anything special. Just an automatic generated ip address from XP. Wont get any default gateway.

[ua549]

The router may be mis-configured if you don't get an IP address for the gateway. If it isn't defined in the router as part of the private network and/or DHCP setup, it should be defined in the PC. A gateway IP is necessary to route packets to another network.

There are two things mis-configured with the static setup.
The static IP cannot be an address that may be assigned by the DHCP server. In other words the last IP octet cannot be between 100 and 199 inclusive. The DNS server should be for the ISP's DNS servers. There should be a minimum of two DNS server IP's for reliable service. Your router is not a DNS server.

[WingYn]

I made the last IP octet to be 32 in the static IP.

I will try DNS another DNS server IP's later. Thank you :)