Networking help!!

rip13cord · #1 December 2nd, 2004, 12:30 PM

The only connection to the internet on my Toshiba laptop running XP that will work is the built in realtek LAN connection. When I cnnect through the bluetooth in my mobile phone, it says under the STATUS that it is connected running at a certain spped like 115mpbs or whatever, and I do everything correctly connecting the bluetooth phone to the comp setting up my number dialing *99# and etc. Everything appears to be ok then I try to bring up internet explorer and it says that the page cannot be displayed. Also I live in a dorm and can connect wirelessly to other peoples connections that are unsecure, and it does the same thing once I am connected and am running at a high mpbs yet wont let me actually surf the web.

So pretty much my problem is I am being "connected" without actually being able to surf the web or do anything. What am I doing wrong?

Ned Seagoon · #2 December 2nd, 2004, 01:18 PM

Hi rip

Welcome to CTH

Could be the configeration of your browser, you've got use a proxy checked or not checked when it should be the other way. Or some other browser configuration problem.

Check if you are connected to the network OK. Open a command window and try a few ping commands.

First check your own TCP/IP stack, at the prompt type ping localhost, ensure you get a response. If you know IP address of your router try ping 123.123.123.123 (where you substitute the local IP address. Then type ping your college web server, ping www.yourdomain.edu (insert your info here) and so on.

Post back with details of what you find. BF

rip13cord · #3 December 3rd, 2004, 04:39 AM

I clicked the box that said use proxy and I was really unsure what to do as far as what address to put in where it asked right after so I couldnt do anything with that.

I got connected to the internet as my phone as my only connection option everything else being disabled and did command prompt ping localhost. it told me i pinged 127.0.0.1. But I dont know what that address is or means. I disconnected my phone and did it again and it gave me the same exact answer so i dont think it was recognizing my phone. I did not understand the part about pinging the college domain. Will that get me in trouble?

I do not have a router or anything connecting me to the internet. I am connected through a lan cord that goes into another computer that gets the connection from the wall. I can get internet access on both computers but only with the lan connection. I disable all of this stuff though when I am trying to connect because I just want to find out about the status of my mobile phone modem connection and be able to get the internet with no cords attatched.

rip13cord · #4 December 3rd, 2004, 12:17 PM

Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks

Ned Seagoon · #5 December 3rd, 2004, 12:38 PM

Hi Rip

OK, when you pinged localhost you checked the software on your own PC which uses the localhost IP address of 127.0.0.1 so that proves that your own PC TCP/IP stack is OK.

Remove that checkmark from 'use a proxy'.

No it won't get you in trouble pinging the local domain web server.

Type ping <www.yourdomain.edu> at the command prompt. Replace the <www.yourdomain.edu> with what ever you enter into the browser to get your college web page.

Example to ping cybertechhelp

Type ping www.cybertechhelp.com

Let us know how you get on.

Good luck. BF

rip13cord · #6 December 3rd, 2004, 08:56 PM

Ok i did ping www.tamu.edu and here is what happened:

Pinging mirmir.tamu.edu [128.194.103.177] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 128.194.103.177:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 <100% loss>,

I have no idea what that means tas far as my modem goes though? Does anone know?

bAdWaYz · #7 December 4th, 2004, 06:03 AM

That means either the edu server is filtering out icmp packets thus you can't ping it or that you can ping it but all you're packets are dropping meaning you can't connect to comptuers on the internet. Try to ping an address like yahoo.com or microsoft.com those should give you a ping reply. If you still get 100% packet loss then you have a conectivity issue.

Ned Seagoon · #8 December 4th, 2004, 08:17 AM

Actually it has got out because it's done a DNS lookup, I think. BF

**z1p** · #9 December 4th, 2004, 04:51 PM

As bigFred said, it does look like you have some connectivity out through your phone since you able to get the IP address. However, it the fact that the ping didn't work has to make you wonder. I tried the ping and got a response, so that computer should respond to a ping request. So, either there is a firewall somewhere in your connection path that is blocking pings or the failure is caused by a configuration problem.

Open up a command window, run the following and post back the output.

netstat -rn

bAdWaYz · #10 December 5th, 2004, 06:01 AM

Ok he has limited conectivity due to the address being resovled to an ip, but 100% packet loss in basic terms means "no soup for you". I agree with z1p that this is more than likely a config issue. Never having gotten online with a cell phone before this is a bit out of my area so I'm not sure how much help I could be anyhow. I did however get a cell phone today that gets internet so I will be trying that out very soon. So help this guy out and maybe I won't need to post a question myself hehehe.