Not connecting to Network

[GMan]

Whatever's clever. Good luck!

 

[DrPower]

Well, unfortunately, I'm still without an answer...

 

[GMan]

Nah, the lease is from your router. The setting is in the DHCP settings at http://192.168.1.1

You'd likely do well to reset your router to factory settings, reboot Windows then check that address to change the lease time.

To reset router, many times there is a small tiny button to push on it with a pen or similar.

I don't have a DHCP section. It doesn't really matter anyway, I wont worry about it.

I'll only do a factory reset if I have to because I've got loads of forwarded ports that need to say that way.

In addition:

Probably a dns configuration error in the router dealing with dns relay and/or not having a preferred dns set in it.
Easiest way is factory reset. Or disable dns relay and actually set a preferred static dns in the router.

I personally use 208.67.222.222. It's fast as can be. My fallback secondary dns is 4.2.2.1 which is also just as fast.

All routers have DHCP settings too.

 

[DrPower]

I did a factory reset, no effect.
The fact that other computers/devices are affected leads me to believe that it's probably my router. The strange thing is that it only is affecting my wired computers.

It has DHCP settings, they're just not all in one place. All I was saying is that I couldn't find the lease setting.

 

[GMan]

The strange thing is that it only is affecting my wired computers.

It happens. Could be a cooky router, even after the firmware update.

Things to try:

1) If it has a WAN select (or WAN Negotiation speed, Duplex mode or similar), set it to Auto

2) Reboot pc and see how it it. If still trouble, go into the device manager. Right click the Realtek lan driver. Properties | Advanced

For Link Speed/Duplex Mode, make sure that is on auto. If it already is, experiment with the fastest setting shown but only the one saying half duplex.

If no good, try the same fastest setting @ full duplex.

 

[DrPower]

Could refreshing Windows 8 fix it perhaps?
I am starting to get very annoyed with this...

It just constantly says it's "Identifying..."

 

[GMan]

Doubtful.

As a testing procedure, set the driver setting back to auto. Connect the cable from your machine to Optimum Online's (or other ISP) modem. See how things work like that. If it works great, the router is definitely still the issue.

You'd have to reboot the modem though, so it learns your hardware mac address.

 

[DrPower]

I can connect to the internet just fine. The issue is that I can't connect to other devices on the network.

 

[GMan]

I can connect to the internet just fine. The issue is that I can't connect to other devices on the network.

Your screenshot shows problems...and I already said to enable NetBIOS for the adapter.

Other than that, any machine you are trying to share with must have Homegroup enabled and working well too (only works on Windows 7 and 8.)

 

[DrPower]

I enabled NetBIOS right after you suggested it and nothing changed.
I'm currently using the computer with the issue to make these posts.

 

[Calico]

192.168.1.1

Thanks for the information, it turns out that is your router address and not that of your PC, which is 192.168.1.102, at least it was when the information was posted.

In the ipconfig you posted, it shows NetBIOS as being disabled, now that you've enabled it on the adapter, can you run another ipconfig /all and check the status. In addition, can you open Windows Firewall from control panel and check the status. Post a screenshot if you're uncertain.

 

[GMan]

On all sharing machines - In Network and Sharing Center:

Click "Change advanced sharing settings" near top left.

For the type of network you're on, set "turn on file and print sharing"

Then all set All networks section like this:

At the bottom left of Network screen is also Homegroup settings.

 

[DrPower]

I turned on File and Printer Sharing for all network types, because my machine can't figure out what network type it is.

I turned Fire Wall completely off temporarily and I don't have any 3rd party security applications.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Windows IP Configuration


Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Brandon-PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No


Ethernet adapter Wired Ethernet Connection:


Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-24-1D-1C-72-E9
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:43f2:5052:e472:7400:5ccf:f14b:dab8(P
referred)
Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2002:43f2:5052:e472:a5a5:2128:df14:af39(P
referred)
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::7400:5ccf:f14b:dab8%14(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.102(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, April 01, 2012 9:09:29 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, April 01, 2012 10:37:56 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::e291:f5ff:fe02:5f95%14
192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234890269
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-17-08-D6-67-00-24-1D-1C-72-E9


DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::e291:f5ff:fe02:5f95%14
192.168.1.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

 

[chev65]

Something strange is going on here and I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with Windows 8.

 

[DrPower]

I'm starting to gather that too.
I have feeling it might be a hardware problem somewhere, the trouble is I don''t know where.

 

[chev65]

Yes that strange IP address "fe80::e291:f5ff:fe02:5f95%14"
right before your default gateway has me confused, not sure what that is but I've seen it before.

Maybe it's possible to adjust the routers advanced settings to get rid of that but I'm sure what setting or adjustment would be required.

It might be something stuck in your IPv4 connection settings somewhere.

 

[GMan]

A small recommendation here? Disable all IPv6, disable all Homegroup services, disable IPHelper and use classic sharing method.

Probably not the "correct" way, but I personally despise Homegroup and some routers/adapters have issues with IPv6 right then and there....

Classic will get the job done and well too.

 

[area 66]

Probably not the "correct" way,

for me it's the only way

 

[GMan]

for me it's the only way

Makes 2 of us man!

Anyhow, I'm sure there is likely to be questions on "how to make classic sharing work well"

If you aren't Windows wizard lol things can get complicated very fast.

We're here to answer anything at all like that, Dr.

 

[DrPower]

Ok, I'll try it. How do I do that?