Hello, i have a computer that is running Windows XP. I recently came upon a problem trying to access any websites. When i go to either Chrome, IE, or FF, it wont let me go to any websites. I have used LAN cabled connection forever, but i also had a Wireless ethernet adaptor, that i enabled and tried to use that as well. So, i tried both wired and wireless, and they both can connect to the network, but it wont go to any sites, it would just sit there and either do nothing, or say something like action has been canceled. Now i went to the Command Prompt and i ping a couple of addresses such as yahoo and my router address and they all came back positive with no packets interrupted or not sent. So that told me that i was indeed connected to the internet. I also tried to connect to the network with my other desktop and laptop, and they can surf the internet pretty well so i know it has been singled down to that specific computer. It was working well until today. I dont know what happened. Can anyone give me some help. I dont know if this is a networking issue or a hardware issue. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all of the internet browsers as well and nothing works. I have also reinstalled all the drivers for my WAN and LAN ethernet cards, and nothing happened. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
This looks to me like a software issue. If you can ping but browsers don't work, then something may be whacked with http or port 80. Have you tried uninstalling Chrome and FF and tried it with just IE? Have you tried accessing the web interface on your router? Have you tried opening an html page on your PC locally? You can try this by saving a web page to a usb drive and then take it over to your PC an open it.
A customers computer I fixed had this problem. In their connection settings they had it set up to have access through a proxy that they were no longer using. By removing that the problems were fixed. I don't see why an average user would have that set however? There might also be some incorrect settings in your router. Have you changed anything at all recently. I mean anything.
