For a about a year I am having kind of problems at times with my online connections. I have quite regularly two computers running and also at times the laptop. All going via router online then. I have a new router now as I thought that the loosing of the online connection was because of the previous router having problems. With the new router the problem still is existing (it feels less though than with the old one), i.e. I am online, wanting to go to another page or save an update on the website and click for action and out I am, no access to the website or worse no connection to the website-server anymore. This sometimes automatically means all the other computers are also not able to get online but not always and that is what puzzles me that I maybe able to still access the web via one of the others. If I have a hardware problem I would think I have no access with all of them at the same time, but that is not always like this. I now think I may not have set the properties of the network itself right meaning that I somehow may have created a conflict with the computers and their access via router, could this be that there is somewhere a kind of order of the computers and that they kick each other out or something like I have first priority and then you and then you and this on each of them which would cause a problem? Cannot find it though when I go through… Any tips are much appreciated, also offline if this is something not everyone is interested in but maybe it is a more common problem than I know? Other than that I could only think another bit of the hardware before the router i.e. DSL box or so that have a problem and need to be exchanged.
Thanks a lot
Brigitte
Hi, I have a couple of thoughts you might want to check out:
In the router’s firewall and in any firewall software you may run on the computers, make sure your DNS servers are set as trusted hosts.
I’m assuming you’re running DHCP instead of static IP’s on the PC’s; on each computer, explicity specify the gateway (or default route, depending on what OS you are running) as your router address. Also try explictly defining your DNS servers on the PCs instead of letting them pull it from DHCP; I’ve seen this fix problems with the ZoneAlarm firewall.
–James
Thanks a lot James, I will have a look into this tomorrow, I think I remember where to look into from when the new router was installed by a friend.
Wishing you a nice weekend!
Brigitte