[CoolerThanYou]

Hello folks, here's the situation. I just moved into a new house and my
roomates have our internet connection shared through a hub. Everyone is set
up to just obtain their ip's and dns servers automatically, when I set my
connection to do that it assigns a weird ip address like 164.x.x.x which is
not in the right range. I've read a few posts about this being due to sp2 and
to just reset your router. I'm writing this at work so i'm hoping to get this
figured out for when I go home. So anyways I figure no problem, i'll just
assign a static ip and dns servers. So I did an ipconfig on someone elses
machine in the house and got the info and put it in. Once i did that the
'limited or no connectivity' message went away and my connection icon looked
normal. However I still couldn't browse the web or ping anything. I would
REALLY appreciate some help with this. Thanks in advance.

[Chuck]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 06:19:02 -0700, "CoolerThanYou"
<CoolerThanYou@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello folks, here's the situation. I just moved into a new house and my
>roomates have our internet connection shared through a hub. Everyone is set
>up to just obtain their ip's and dns servers automatically, when I set my
>connection to do that it assigns a weird ip address like 164.x.x.x which is
>not in the right range. I've read a few posts about this being due to sp2 and
>to just reset your router. I'm writing this at work so i'm hoping to get this
>figured out for when I go home. So anyways I figure no problem, i'll just
>assign a static ip and dns servers. So I did an ipconfig on someone elses
>machine in the house and got the info and put it in. Once i did that the
>'limited or no connectivity' message went away and my connection icon looked
>normal. However I still couldn't browse the web or ping anything. I would
>REALLY appreciate some help with this. Thanks in advance.

The message says either you have limited connectivity (only to other computers
on your network IFF they all are also getting this assignment, AND you're
connecting to them physically), or no connectivity (if the other computers are
connecting, but you're not). In your case, it's probably the latter.
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=220874>

If you aren't connecting physically, no manual address assignment will help.
What hub are your roommates sharing thru? Can you provide "ipconfig /all" from
their computers, and yours? Are you connecting your own router to their hub?
Do you know that your computer is physically connecting to the router?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-internet-service.html#AskingForHelp>

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