Recent content by Boning

Thank you Josh, I think I figured this out. Long ago, this MAC address was used on this router on a win 7 device, so there may have been some hidden settings that were left there since then and conflicted with win 8 way of doing things. I have changed the MAC address to the same one as the...

The cable is only about 4m long, I can take a laptop with win7 on it, plug in the cable and the connection works flawlessly. Unfortunately I do not have the access into the router settings right now, but seeing as it works for other devices with the same router settings and the same cable (just...

Hello Josh, thanks for your answer. I'm afraid the problem persists even in safe mode with networking, I will run malware bytes, but I do not believe this could be caused by malicious software, I had not installed or ran any programs before running into the issue.

Hello, I have a clean w8 install with latest updates. I plugged the computer into LAN via standard ethernet cable and everything looked alright, however, it seems that there is some problem with downloading files (be it through browser or a different service, such as win update). Usually the...