some more wild guesses...

is it both cable and wireless that aren't working for your uncle's pc? then perhaps check whether his ff & ie aren't setup by accident to connect through a proxy? ff: tools, options, advanced, network, settings. ie: tools, internet options, connections, lan settings. it happened to me once that some program changed it without me knowing...

if it's only wireless that isn't working, then perhaps try different channels? as my belgian and american laptops never work on the same channel, i put one laptop on my bbox wireless and the other one on another wireless router that is connected to my bbox via cable, so both using different channels...

gl, n

ps how was boston & ny??


Thomas Van Parys wrote: 
Thomas Abeel schreef:
  
His MAC address is blacklisted/not whitelisted in the configuration?

This is a wild guess.
    

Also one of my first guesses, but MAC filtering is turned off.

T.


  
Thomas Van Parys wrote:
    
Hi all,

I went helpdesking at my uncle's this evening. He doesn't have an 
internet connection anymore and I couldn't fix the problem so far, so 
I'm hoping someone here has any bright ideas.

OS: Window XP, Home Edition (didn't check which SP)
Browser: Both IE and FF

Problem:
What does work:
- The Belgacom BBox (=the ADSL modem/router/WiFi/telephone/digital TV 
box Belgacom imposes on it's customers) has connection with ADSL.
- Belgacom technicians didn't detect any problems with the cable.
- With my Fedora laptop, I can connect to the router, both with an UTP 
cable and wireless. I get an IP address by DHCP and I can surf without 
problems.
- With my laptop, I can access the routers setup page, to see that all 
settings, firewall, etc... seem to be ok (no filtering rules, ...).

What doesn't:
- My uncles pc doesn't get an IP address. If I assign one manually, and 
set the default gateway to 192.168.1.1, I can ping the router... but no 
HTTP connection, not to 'The Internet' and not to the setup page of the 
router (http://192.168.1.1).
- Surfing (with my laptop) goes very slow, and my uncle got an email 
saying that he's on smallband for exceeding his quota. This means 
someone used his wireless (which he didn't even know was available for 
that type of modem... so of course it wasn't secured... I turned the 
wireless of now).
Two days after receiving this email, his internet connection stopped 
working.
- AVG doesn't see any viruses after a full scan.
- Firewalls are turned off
- WTF?

Anyone can think of something, before I have to reinstall Windows and 
waste hours of backupping, downloading and installing?