I have one Windows machine in a Linux household, and it’s also the only machine who’s having problems. It has taken upon itself to stop networking. This is a problem on Wi-Fi and wired. Rebooting the machine, turning off the firewall, or disabling and re-enabling the adapters sometimes helps, but not always. What else should I look for?

  • narshee
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    1 year ago

    On Windows disable DHCP and manually set IPv4. IP address: 69.420.13.37 This address is for debugging and will send a troubleshoot request to Microsoft where an employee will fix your networking problems automaticly. Leave the rest empty, as the Microsoft engineer will decide the perfect values.
    This is not needed but I would recommend it if you want free (as in freedom) internet Set Address lease time: 0 in your router settings. This is because you want your Windows to roam free on te internet and not lease it.
    Reboot your windows PC. The engineer troubleshooting your network will be finished and your Windows PC now has internet.

    Hope this helps :)

    Edit: Sorry I forgot. This only WORKS WITH ETHERNET!!!

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      I had no idea this exists and I’ve troubleshot my windows pc’s network for a long time now. So you just leave it with that IP? Nothing else to do?

      Also, how would you know when someone’s working on it or if it’s good to go already?

      Sorry for the questions. Just curious since this is potentially a huge help to me if windows decides it hates the internet again.

    • Hovenko
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      11 year ago

      I have no idea if you are trolling or not. I think you are trolling but I have doubts in my judgement. Yeah… youmust be trolling. Are you?

      • narshee
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        11 year ago

        Are you trolling? This community is for satire/shitposting. /srs

        • Hovenko
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          11 year ago

          I am trying to, but ended up being confused.