Well, this has me baffled. My Bell Internet Security Services Activation (I just installed it on a computer not used for some 4 or 5 months) popped up a window saying "Waiting for Internet connection"...and waiting and waiting. But my Netgear wireless connection to the router in the house indicates "very good" signal strength, which I thought meant I was connected. Obviously not!
I tried opening IE. "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page" (much as I expected)
Clicked the button which was showing on the IE cannot connect page "Diagnose connection problems" and followed the instructions. The final diagnostic is "Windows cannot connect to the internet using HTTP, HTTPS or FTP. This is probably caused by firewall settings on this computer. Check the firewall settings for the ports HTTP...etc." Where on this earth are they?!
I checked the Windows Firewall settings and found it "off (not recommended)" so I switched it on.
I re-ran the diagnostic on the IE page and nothing has changed.
My question is:
How do I check the settings for HTTP port (80) and HTTPS port (443) and FTP port (21)? Also what do I set them to?
Many thanks, in advance, for a solution to my problem!
I tried opening IE. "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page" (much as I expected)
Clicked the button which was showing on the IE cannot connect page "Diagnose connection problems" and followed the instructions. The final diagnostic is "Windows cannot connect to the internet using HTTP, HTTPS or FTP. This is probably caused by firewall settings on this computer. Check the firewall settings for the ports HTTP...etc." Where on this earth are they?!
I checked the Windows Firewall settings and found it "off (not recommended)" so I switched it on.
I re-ran the diagnostic on the IE page and nothing has changed.
My question is:
How do I check the settings for HTTP port (80) and HTTPS port (443) and FTP port (21)? Also what do I set them to?
Many thanks, in advance, for a solution to my problem!