[Gamerguy99]

Yesterday Comcast was down and none of the pc's in our house had internet. I did not know this at the time, so when I was on my brother's toshiba laptop(running vista), the network connection was suddenly lost. As a standard procedure, I disabled and re-enabled the connection, hoping it would be fixed. Then later I discovered it was our ISP's fault.

The next day, the network connection was back up, except the laptop I was using last night couldn't connect. When i I go to "Connect to a network" It says it successfully connected, but I still cannot browse the web. The taskbar icon shows a computer with an X, meaning it's NOT connected. I've tried restarting the laptop, resetting the router, re-entering the network key, and nothing's working.

Thank you in advance.

[foxtra]

Tried just setting up a new connection? In otherwords configuring a new connectiong to the router. It can be a cache problem. And remaking it could solve the issue.

[Gamerguy99]

I setup a new connection under the same settings, and still no connection.
The only thing I don't understand is why it is saying it successfully connected when it isn't... Even after connecting it says "Connected".

Side question: Is it normal for the network security key to be changed to show eight asterisks? Because the key is actually much longer than that.

[foxtra]

Then I'm not sure I've got the knowledge to help you. Sorry. But to answer your second question. Yes, It's just a precation to prevent any 3rd party software to log the key.

[Gamerguy99]

Solved. To my suprise, my brother somehow fixed it. (he's very computer illiterate)
It had to do with the network bridge. I think it might have been disabled.

Thanks for trying to help though.