Vista Tutorial - Connected but can't browse!

Hi,
I recently set up a wireless network at home and before that I was quite
happy with vista then this happend.

I am connected to the net, I know this because all my programs including
Windows are updating themselves, and I can ping webpages buy using cmd prompt
and get a reply but when I try to use a browser it comes up with:
"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
Most likely causes:
Not connected to net
Website has problems
Typing error in address"

I've tried IE, Firefox and Opera all encounter the same error, I took it to
my universities IT professionals and stumped them, spent hours on this
discussion looking up how to fix it and can't find anything

I've disabled the Phishing Filter
The guys at uni went through all the IP, TCP and heaps of other various
abriveations of things I have only a little idea of what they are.

I have tried connecting wireless, and via ethernet, all same problem.
I have windows vista home basic

Can anyone help me please!
I'm completely stumped

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Do you have your DNS settings in place?
Without that, you cannot translate Internet names (www.microsoft.com) to IP
addresses (207.46.225.60).
Get back to me!

-- Andy

"Josh Wayman" <Josh Wayman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:528E0943-96D9-4339-8F75-CA942C209341@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I recently set up a wireless network at home and before that I was quite
> happy with vista then this happend.
>
> I am connected to the net, I know this because all my programs including
> Windows are updating themselves, and I can ping webpages buy using cmd
> prompt
> and get a reply but when I try to use a browser it comes up with:
> "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
> Most likely causes:
> Not connected to net
> Website has problems
> Typing error in address"
>
> I've tried IE, Firefox and Opera all encounter the same error, I took it
> to
> my universities IT professionals and stumped them, spent hours on this
> discussion looking up how to fix it and can't find anything
>
> I've disabled the Phishing Filter
> The guys at uni went through all the IP, TCP and heaps of other various
> abriveations of things I have only a little idea of what they are.
>
> I have tried connecting wireless, and via ethernet, all same problem.
> I have windows vista home basic
>
> Can anyone help me please!
> I'm completely stumped
>
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> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
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> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com....vista.general

MyIPv4 DNS settings are in place but in the connection details my IPv6
settings are completely blank. Could this have something to do with it?
I thought that as long as one version of the IP DNS settings were in place
the other couldn't matter that much.

"Andyistic" wrote:

> Do you have your DNS settings in place?
> Without that, you cannot translate Internet names (www.microsoft.com) to IP
> addresses (207.46.225.60).
> Get back to me!

Hi, I'm new
I'm having the same problem, and somebody asked me to check me to check my DNS but I have no clue how to do it. I'm connected but I can't browse with IE, Firefox or Safari. The only browser available is Netscape. I can't use MSN messenger, and recently I tried to buy some music on amazon but the Amazon mp3 downloader cannot connect to internet. So write now I'm just lost.

Hi josh,
This could be the result of a misconfigured router. Could you first please try to connect directly by connecting your modem directly to your lan card?