The laptop in question is an Eee PC 900 that came with Linux, which I deleted and put Windows XP on. Up till Service pack 3.
There are the following icons in the task bar: Internet connection working (Speed: 2,7 mbps, connected for 1:18:01, packets sent like 73. 000, packets received 11. 000), then there is the little icon for the wireless, which says “Wireless connection tiscali” and Speed 54. 00 mbps, Signal strength: excellent, and Status: Connected.
So the wireless is CONNECTED and working, the tiscali box is plugged in and that connection is WORKING (packets received, etc. ). Why is the internet not working when you start a browser???
When I start mozilla firefox it says “The connection was reset; the connection to the server was reset while the page was loading”. When I start IE the page reads: “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage; What you can try: it appears you are connected to the internet, but you might want to try to reconnect to the Internet. ”
I have tried everything, using “repair” to try and repair the connections, using just wireless, using just the direct connection, disabling the firewall, enabling the firewall with all kinds of exceptions, calling tiscali (they had no idea what the problem was). . .
If you can solve this dilemma you are a genius! Please can you suggest something I haven’t tried? I am mystified as to why 2 connections are established but the browsers themselves cannot connect to the internet.
PS: my hair is already grey from this. . . 
I forgot to mention that my flatmates computer (which I am writing on) is connected perfectly.
That thing about the router/modem makes sense, but how do I disconnect a modem? Its not a seperate box, its inside the computer. Do I disconnect it by right-clicking on it somewhere, or de-install and re-install it?
Yep, I’ve got the connection name, password, WEP, everything. And it IS connected, it says so (it says “connected” and “firewalled”, but it just won’t run the internet browsers.
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