Win7 loses internet but not network


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I have a 3 year old HP laptop. It is running Win 7 Pro. For some reason, using wireless, it is losing the internet connection. Not the TCP/IP connection at home, just the access to the internet. Other machines on the same router get out to the internet fine. I can use RDP to connect to this machine. But it will suddenly not see the internet and I have to turn off, then on, the wireless.

Any thoughts as to why this was happening?

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When you lose connection what do you get in ipconfig? (Start -> Run -> CMD -> Enter. Type ipconfig and press enter) What is your default gateway? Are you able to ping the router when you lose internet connection?

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Striked: GREAT idea- I usually see this when I am rushing out in the morning and find I can't access the machine remotely. I'll check that! As noted, I am able to access things internally- it is getting out to the net that I can't do.

Hum: The internet disappears on its own, sometimes while I'm using it. What is strange is the internal access to the machine and the network is fine- it just loses the access to the outside world.

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Got any VM connections?

I have a 3 year old HP laptop. It is running Win 7 Pro. For some reason, using wireless, it is losing the internet connection. Not the TCP/IP connection at home, just the access to the internet. Other machines on the same router get out to the internet fine. I can use RDP to connect to this machine. But it will suddenly not see the internet and I have to turn off, then on, the wireless.

Any thoughts as to why this was happening?

Remixedcat, i have the same issue and i have VMware connections... u have a sollution?

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DaddyR- even when no VM is running? Which release of VMWare? Perhaps I misunderstood what Remix meant. I thought he was referring to active VMWare sessions with commections.

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DaddyR- even when no VM is running? Which release of VMWare? Perhaps I misunderstood what Remix meant. I thought he was referring to active VMWare sessions with commections.

yes there aren't any vm's running, i think remixedcat meant the vm connetions

i have vmware workstation 8.0.5, and all drivers al the latest from oem (DELL)

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I had a similar issue with a bad direct access gpo and another workstation had VMWare that didn't have the GPO issue but had the same internet issues.

Talk about a long night

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