Ok, some computer guru should be able to solve this......

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Originally Posted by KYNSimon

So here is what is happening to me.

I work at an office where there is a LAN. I have full access to the net via the PC work provides. Although I can't download or anything because of lack of admin privies.

Ok, here is the deal. I plug my personal laptop into another jack that I know works fine, set the internet options to match my office pc. (lan settings) and nothing happens.

The weirdest part is that it worked fine up until about 3 months ago. I was able to log right on at work if I altered my proxy settings. Now nothing.

What gives?


A shiny apple for the first person that solves this dilemia.

Can you post a copy of your laptop's 'ipconfig' results?

Go to Start-->Run, type in "cmd", press enter. Then type in 'ipconfig /all' (sans quotes) and press enter.

Copy/paste whatever shows up here.


Very likely, there may be a MAC ID filter on the router. It is also possible that a server-side firewall is filtering packets, if you're trying to use different programs to access the net.