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Internet & Networking => Networking => Topic started by: alanh01 on April 26, 2019, 02:50:36 PM

Title: It shows I have internet connection but will not connect
Post by: alanh01 on April 26, 2019, 02:50:36 PM

I have a DELL Dimension 4100 desktop. It is hard-linked into the router. The router is a Linksys WRT 1900AC. I have no problems with the other computers connection. The DELL shows I have a connection and the speed is 100.0 Mbps. When I start-up IE 6.0, it will not load. It would say, "page cannot be displayed". I'm using Windows XP Professional with service pack 2. How do I fix this?

Title: Re: It shows I have internet connection but will not connect
Post by: Geek-9pm on April 26, 2019, 05:29:45 PM

You need to have the latest update to Windows XP. SP-3.
At some point there was a change, but I don't remember it. Anyhow, the latest  update should fix it.

Title: Re: It shows I have internet connection but will not connect
Post by: DaveLembke on April 27, 2019, 04:19:56 PM

You will also want to get the last version of Firefox or Chrome that supported XP and install that and use that instead of IE. However you may also notice that some websites will complain that the browser is out of date and fail to work with it.

I have pretty much retired my Windows XP systems from Internet use due to the fact that nothing works that i need to use them for online anymore. It all started with Flash Games no longer working because they give an error to install the latest version of Adobe Flash and Adobe dropped support for XP, so there are no updates to getting the games to work with XP. Then other issues with sites started to show with pages loading partially as mainly content like flash was out of date etc.

My XP computers are pretty much shut off these days and saved for offline gaming of older games that have a fit with newer hardware. Although one of the games such as Diablo 1 just recently became available on GoG and it works no with Windows 10, so an even lesser need to turn on the Windows XP system anymore.

Title: Re: It shows I have internet connection but will not connect
Post by: alanh01 on April 29, 2019, 01:14:34 PM

I'll try all that. Thanks, everyone.

Title: Re: It shows I have internet connection but will not connect
Post by: Lisa_maree on April 29, 2019, 07:47:31 PM

It's most likely you are not getting DNS resolved , Like you are wanting google and the computer is unable to get the ip address for google. To confirm use an IP address not a name , googles ip is 172.217.167.68 so type that number into the browser address line. You should see Googles home page, if you can search for things then it is a dns setting.