I installed a Broadcom 802.11g wireless adapter onto my Dell desktop. It worked for a while, and it suddenly would not connect to my internet service. The only strange thing that was occurring prior to the problem was that the connection was slowing down to untypical levels. The adapter can locate the router, but is unable to connect despite being of the same frequency. Installing the latest drivers only worked until I restarted the computer, which resulted in the same problem as before installation (reinstalling drivers does not appear to be fixing the problem). OS is Win Vista 32bit.
Internet Connection Errors
If you have a virus or malware that is not letting you connect to the internet or your settings have been corrupt, there is a simple setting that you can look for to correct the error. The most prevalent of these is that you can connect to the router and your network but you have no internet access. This is the one I will concentrate on here.
Bring up your internet browser and click on “Tools”, scroll down and click on Internet Options.
Now click on the “Connections” tab. At the bottom of the page, click on the LAN settings button.
Make sure the box for “Automatically detect settings is checked. Now, Un-check the box that states to use a “proxy server for your LAN” at the bottom. Click OK and OK.
Reboot the machine and try to connect to the internet, you should be able to. I have to also add that in some cases if you have “Selective Startup” selected through “MSCONFIG”….it may be beneficial to change that to “Normal Startup” until you get the other settings configured.
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