no conectivity

I have 2 laptops, a new compac and an older one. Both were working fine and yesterday the old one said that there was limited or no connectivity. TYhe new one is 2 feet away and both use the same router. A lynksys fed from the verizon internet box. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

try this
start - run - type cmd - hit enter
ipconfig/release - enter
ipconfig/renew - enter

 

I went through your steps and I have the same results. The icon shows all bars are green but it says "limited or no connectivity".

 

in the same place just type ipconfig/all and hit enter. will look like this:

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : SiS 900 PCI Fast
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-14-85-01-AB-9E
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.13.104.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.13.104.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.13.63.10
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.13.63.10
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.13.63.10

does it say dhcp enabled - yes?
autoconfig - yes?

 

also just try to power cycle your router. unplug it for a minute or so and plug it back in. that sometimes fixes stuff.

 

Thanks for helping. I entered the ipconfig/all and got the following error "windows can not find ipconfig/all. And i have tried rebooting the router. The newlaptop is recieving the signal from the router and has no trouble getting to the internet.

 

right click My Computer - properties - hardware tab - device manager - look for network adapters in the list and expand the little + box if you can. are there any yellow ! or ? anywhere?

 

Sometimes just disabling the wireless and then re-enabling will fix it. There may be a button or slider on the front that you an toggle.

 

I right click on my computer and followed your steps and all tabs under network adaptors. All green no yellow

 

King Steve I went to the command prompt to do ipconfig/all and got this...
WINDOWS IP CONFIGURATION

host name ....your-4105e587b6
primary Dns suffix....... (blank)
mode type...... Hybrid
ip routering enabled .....no
WINS Proxy Enabled .....no

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 2

Connection-specific DNS Suffix.....(blank)
Description.....Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
Physical address....00-14-A5-EE-fb-oe
Dhcp enabled.........yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled......yes
Auoconfiguration IP address.....169.254.131.91
Subnet mask....255.255.0.0
Default gateway.....(blank)

Ethernet Adaptet local Area Connection

media state.......media disconnected
Description....Realtek RTL8139/010x Family Fast ethernet NIC
Physical Address....00-16-D4-43-2b-EA

Does this tell you anything?

 

I followed this command @ the c promt
netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt
and it woked.