Hello all. Hope yall can help me with my little problem here. Here it goes:
I have a Dell Desktop 8200 and a Gateway laptop. Recently our Dell started having problems so we had to get it repaired. While the Dell was out of commission I ended up getting a Gateway laptop as a present. I have cable internet connection and to get on to the internet with my laptop all I do is connect the ethernet cable to the ethernet port on my laptop and I;m connected to the internet. Recently we got our Dell back and it's working good as new so my mom wanted to use it and get on the internet with it so I took the ethernet cable out of my lap and put it in the Dell but it can't access the internet. It says their is limited connectivity and it says I can try and repair it, so I click on the repair option but it says it can't be repaired because of something havcing to do with unable to renew my ip adress and DNS something. I am so confused about this. Anyway I just bought a router and and I would like to set it up so both of the computers can have internet access. And so I can take my laptop anywhere in our apartment and get on the internet. Tried setting up the router with the cd rom set up wizard but I'm quite confused, because during the setup it said it had to check for something but it seems that because the Dell is not receiving the internet signals it couldnt check what it needed to check for and it was asking me to manually put in my ip address and other stuff that I don't know.
I have a Dell Desktop 8200 and a Gateway laptop. Recently our Dell started having problems so we had to get it repaired. While the Dell was out of commission I ended up getting a Gateway laptop as a present. I have cable internet connection and to get on to the internet with my laptop all I do is connect the ethernet cable to the ethernet port on my laptop and I;m connected to the internet. Recently we got our Dell back and it's working good as new so my mom wanted to use it and get on the internet with it so I took the ethernet cable out of my lap and put it in the Dell but it can't access the internet. It says their is limited connectivity and it says I can try and repair it, so I click on the repair option but it says it can't be repaired because of something havcing to do with unable to renew my ip adress and DNS something. I am so confused about this. Anyway I just bought a router and and I would like to set it up so both of the computers can have internet access. And so I can take my laptop anywhere in our apartment and get on the internet. Tried setting up the router with the cd rom set up wizard but I'm quite confused, because during the setup it said it had to check for something but it seems that because the Dell is not receiving the internet signals it couldnt check what it needed to check for and it was asking me to manually put in my ip address and other stuff that I don't know.