Windows 8 Network Adapter Troubles

[trek]

OK ... I appear to be having a very similar problem to the one Dot Matrix has been experiencing, and it's only just kicked in

this evening. Ironically, on the very day that thousands of internet connections are due to go belly up because of the FBI

throwing the kill switch on the DNS servers they seized from the DNSChanger malware muppets!

I don't want to have to refresh/reset/reinstall Windows unless all possible solutions are tried and don't resolve the issue.

The situation is this ... my main OS on my main PC is Windows 8 Release Preview, on a dual boot, alongside Windows XP.

The internet, and all network connections on my media centre PC downstairs are fine. The same goes for our webserver.

All three computers (and my XBox360) are set to static IP rather than DHCP. The router is on 198.168.1.1, my main PC

is on 198.168.1.3, the webserver is on 198.168.1.4, and the media centre PC is on 198.168.1.7.

The network settings on the main PC:

IP address: 198.168.1.3

Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway: 198.168.1.1

Preferred DNS server: 198.168.1.4

Alternative DNS server: 198.168.1.1

These settings have always worked with no problems, adverse or otherwise, ever since they were first setup.

Now ... the network connection with Windows 8 on the main PC is live, and says there is internet access. Indeed, the Activity

section of the connection status window, shows data is being sent and received. I can access all the shared folders on the

other computers on the network from the main PC, and can access them via Remote Desktop Connection.

Yet not one single web browser or internet application on this install of Windows 8 can get any internet action!

With the Windows XP installation on the main PC, no problem. All systems go. Full, unfettered, internet access.

I could, for the time being drop back to Windows XP for a while. While it does work fine for such a long in the tooth OS,

it is still very old, and to be honest, I do prefer Windows 8 ... much like quite a few other folks around here.

show the routing table for that pc

[DJGM]

show the routing table for that pc

[trek]

IPv4 table looks good. What happens to your 8 PC when you disable IPv6 protocol?

[Jose_49]

@DJGM:

Try flusing dns:

ipconfig /flushdns

[DJGM]

IPv4 table looks good. What happens to your 8 PC when you disable IPv6 protocol?

I usually have that disabled anyway ... at least until the big v6 upgrade eventually rolls around.

@DJGM:

Try flusing dns:

ipconfig /flushdns

Tried that earlier. Several times. Nada. Tried it once more, thinking "It can't hurt, but probably won't make any difference!"

Well, well, well, whaddaya know ... it worked this time ... internet now working again! Cheers!

Right now it's 03:36am and I gotta be up early in about 3 hours time!