Win 7 Computer has same IP address


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So my financee had to reset my wirless router. After doing this, her Laptop had an error saying a computer had the same IP address. And cannot use the internet. How can I fix this? Everything in her settings is set for it to automatically do this.

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So my financee had to reset my wirless router. After doing this, her Laptop had an error saying a computer had the same IP address. And cannot use the internet. How can I fix this? Everything in her settings is set for it to automatically do this.

Either restart the computer or open a command prompt as admin

Then type ipconfig /release then press enter. Then type ipconfig /renew and press enter. See if that helps.

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Either restart the computer or open a command prompt as admin

Then type ipconfig /release then press enter. Then type ipconfig /renew and press enter. See if that helps.

Thanks, I restarted her computer and nothing. I will give that CMD shot a try once she gets back. Any ideas what to do that if that does not work?

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Thanks, I restarted her computer and nothing. I will give that CMD shot a try once she gets back. Any ideas what to do that if that does not work?

If that doesn't work then go into the network adapter and set the IP as static and enter an IP address by hand preferably using a different IP than the computer has now. Let me know if you need help doing that.

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If that doesn't work then go into the network adapter and set the IP as static and enter an IP address by hand preferably using a different IP than the computer has now. Let me know if you need help doing that.

or make sure it's not already set to a static IP for some reason
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If that doesn't work then go into the network adapter and set the IP as static and enter an IP address by hand preferably using a different IP than the computer has now. Let me know if you need help doing that.

Thanks. I have a desktop connected to the wireless as well, and an xbox, directv box, and two iphones. will i have to find the IP addresses out for each?

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Thanks. I have a desktop connected to the wireless as well, and an xbox, directv box, and two iphones. will i have to find the IP addresses out for each?

You could, but I always aim high

for instance if you currently IP is 192.168.1.15 I use 192.168.168.1.115 Odds are none of your devices are using an ip that high.

If you still want to find the IP's of your other devices and assuming they don't have static ip's, then just go into the router and look at the DHCP table. It should tell you the ip for each device connected to the router.

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You could, but I always aim high

for instance if you currently IP is 192.168.1.15 I use 192.168.168.1.115 Odds are none of your devices are using an ip that high.

If you still want to find the IP's of your other devices and assuming they don't have static ip's, then just go into the router and look at the DHCP table. It should tell you the ip for each device connected to the router.

some routers start the DHCP IPs at 100, to avoid the obvious.

if the computer is set to automatically get an IP and you still get that message, SOME other device in the network is set to a FIXED IP number and that should change. are you SURE you are getting a proper IP, none of those link-local ones?

edit: if this is a result of resetting the router, sounds odd, but you could try turning off the suspicious devices. my bets are on the directv thing or the desktop

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So I gave her computer a different IP address and it says connected, however the icon has a "!" in it for wireless. and it says no internet access. Wtf.

I turned on ALL of my devices, logged into my router and took note of all the IP addresses and assigned it one of its own.

Her error pops up and says DHCP is not enabled for the connection. I clicked "Fix" it says "Fixed" but still doesn't work.

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So I gave her computer a different IP address and it says connected, however the icon has a "!" in it for wireless. and it says no internet access. Wtf.

I turned on ALL of my devices, logged into my router and took note of all the IP addresses and assigned it one of its own.

Make sure you also configured the DNS servers correctly. Usually the IP of the primary DNS server is the same as the routers default gateway.

other wise you can try openDNS

Primary 208.67.222.222

Secondary 208.67.220.220

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Make sure you also configured the DNS servers correctly. Usually the IP of the primary DNS server is the same as the routers default gateway.

other wise you can try openDNS

Primary 208.67.222.222

Secondary 208.67.220.220

I typed in the DNS server that is used for my desktop. and still not connecting.

EDIT: I tried the open DNS server info and it says DNS server isn't responding

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