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I used to get this, and on the advice of a blokey on here called @comfysofa , downloaded CCleaner, run that at each laptop shutdown, good as gold. If ya get stuck, could drop comfy a line, as he knows his onions

 

@comfysofa ........ HELP !!!!!! Cheers Andy

 

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Hmmm....first of all...time and date correct?

 

Oh no, Y2k issue you reckon?

 

No....if the time and date jumps by more than 24hrs site SSL certs start to not work correctly (try it) google will become untrusted for example...

 

Sorry - was at Silverstone yesterday getting soaked and watching people sliding everywhere....

Ok - so start from one end or the other....reboot the router - id say pull the power for 10 secs (what router is it....ADSL or cable and what model?).

Once the router has been rebooted. plug a cable into the router to the one of the 4 switch ports and one to the laptop.....open a command line by typing cmd in the search box and clicking on it....not sure of your os though...type "terminal" if your on Linux.

in the box type "Ping 192.168.0.1" the "0" could be a 1 depending on the router set up....if its working it should "reply" 4 times....then type "ping 8.8.8.8" if it replies back (thats one of google's master DNS servers) then it means the connection between you and the outside world is ok....pull the network cable, join to the wireless network and then try again....if that works then your wireless connection between you and the router is also ok....very basic stuff but you need to establish the basics first....plugging the cable in means the way your laptop gets to the router and then in turn the outside world "simplifies" the transport....once all the above works type in "ping www.google.com" if it replies back then DNS is working (how your laptop turns the 8.8.8.8 number into a name...)

try all of this first and let us know....the above just narrows it down to either transport or OS if all of the above works your networking is ok so time to look at the os....never seen the error before that your seeing but this is my job and i always usually find myself saying at some point during the working week "well fuck me ive never seen that before!" Time to look at the os if the above is ok....