problem connecting to LAN

[oscar7]

I am connected to a LAN and one day, after rebooting, I can no longer access internet content.

I have a Dell with Windows ME machine. The machine performs ping's fine, and is able to access other computers on the network via the Network Neighborhood, but unable to use IE, Netscape, ftp, telnet, ssh, etc....

I tried to do the System Restore to when it worked, and that didn't help. I have uninstalled the last version of IE down to the basic version. I ran Ad-Aware to clean up the system. I replaced the wsock32.dll file. My Internet Settings preferences are not linked to a proxy server.

I checked all the TCP/IP stuff, and that all looks fine. When I run winipcfg, it shows that I have a valid IP address (associated with my LAN).

What steps should you go about to fix this? Thanks.

[BipolarBill]

Try removing, rebooting and reinstalling both TCP/IP and the network adapter itself. The TCP stack is probably corrupt.

[Midknyte]

did you try connecting to website using their IP? you might have some dns issues.

do what bill said too.

did you scan for viruses?

[tvclyly]

I have the same problem with a few computers at work. They were on the network fine for about two weeks to two months then suddenly they do not see the network anymore (not all of them at once). There are two types of solution. 1) use static IP (It some what works) 2. Manually reduce the connection speed down to 10 Mbs full duplex (works all the time). We do not know what caused this but by reduce its speed it got connected.