Strange Mix of Connection Problems
This is probably not a wireless issue, but hard to tell (and I have found folks here so helpful in the past).
I have a simple wireless network at my home with two laptops connected. Laptop #1 seems to be fully functional.
Laptop #2 is handling http (web browser) stuff just fine. But it cannot connect to my outgoing mail server and I have been unable to find anything that I can 'ping' (from the command line) without a "general failure". I don't have this problem from laptop #1.
I have reset my router, disconnected and re-connected to my network, and done an 'ipconfig /renew' without success. What is really odd is that I seem to be able to send email from laptop #2, yet I cannot ping my outgoing mail server (smtp.earthlink.net) from laptop #2.
I don't have good networking skills, but this is looking like TCP/IP is broken on laptop #2.
Thoughts or comments here?
Thanks.
dave
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Dave Lee in Wireless Networking
