Following a thunderstorm, our network and access to the Internet went down. I was unable to ping either the router or any other computer on the network, and so assumed that the router had been fried. Replaced the wired router with a wireless (ASUS WL-520GC).
Now I can get to the internet using wifi on my netbook (XP Home) and the router shows to be at 192.168.1.1 and I can sign into the admin panel with the netbook, but I cannot ping the router (at 192.168.1.1) from any of the three desktop computers (one W2k, and 2 XP Home).
When I run ipconfig /all on the W2k, it shows:
Hostname................Manager
Primary DNS Suffix......(nothing at all here)
Node type...............Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled......Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled......No
and nothing else. What is going on here? Why doesn't the usual info (as below) show?
When I run ipconfig /all on one of the XP's, it shows:
Hostname................Main
Primary DNS Suffix......(nothing at all here)
Node type...............Unknown
IP Routing Enabled......No
WINS Proxy Enabled......No
Ethernet Adapter--yada yada
Pyhsical Address........00-50-70-D6-7C-1
DHCP Enabled............Yes
Autoconfig Enabled......Yes
Autoconfig IP Addy......169.254.175.52
Subnet..................255.255.0.0
Default Gateway.........169.254.175.52
What is going on with the IP Address? I tried entering the 192.168.1.1 as fixed instead of using DHCP and rebooted, but it still keeps returning the above info.
I am totally lost here, and any help will be most appreciated.
Now I can get to the internet using wifi on my netbook (XP Home) and the router shows to be at 192.168.1.1 and I can sign into the admin panel with the netbook, but I cannot ping the router (at 192.168.1.1) from any of the three desktop computers (one W2k, and 2 XP Home).
When I run ipconfig /all on the W2k, it shows:
Hostname................Manager
Primary DNS Suffix......(nothing at all here)
Node type...............Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled......Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled......No
and nothing else. What is going on here? Why doesn't the usual info (as below) show?
When I run ipconfig /all on one of the XP's, it shows:
Hostname................Main
Primary DNS Suffix......(nothing at all here)
Node type...............Unknown
IP Routing Enabled......No
WINS Proxy Enabled......No
Ethernet Adapter--yada yada
Pyhsical Address........00-50-70-D6-7C-1
DHCP Enabled............Yes
Autoconfig Enabled......Yes
Autoconfig IP Addy......169.254.175.52
Subnet..................255.255.0.0
Default Gateway.........169.254.175.52
What is going on with the IP Address? I tried entering the 192.168.1.1 as fixed instead of using DHCP and rebooted, but it still keeps returning the above info.
I am totally lost here, and any help will be most appreciated.