Networking Problems -- OH GOD PLEASE HELP

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bushsucks

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I am about to tear hair from my head and I'm begging for help before I acually do it...

I've recently been having horrible networking problems (what year is this??)... after thinking there was something wrong with my airport extreme, we eventually determined that, for some damn reason, roadrunner wasn't automatically providing the base station with DNS info... so I had to input the two DNS addresses they use, manually.

Just to bring you up to speed... Parallels worked fine, once I did this... until this morning.

Over the past few days, I've had to roll back my security to WEP from WPA because my xbox 360 suddenly wouldn't recognize the airports WPA security anymore... I've also had to input the DNS numbers on my powerbook as well, just so that could connect.

And now Parallels isn't working... I can't connect to the internet, even though everything SAYS it's okay.

Does anyone know what I can do?

This is all happening at the same time my VOIP is porting over from Vonage to SunRocket... so it truly does feel like a broadband apocalypse in my home right now.

Thank you so much in advance...
 
Hi,

Try ipconfig /all in a dos box, just to check all the values are ok in your windows session and try netstat -rn also in the dos box, verify all the values there

Might be some missing values in there
 
Apple has just released an Airport Exterme update which addresses some WPA compatibility issues. You might want to take a look at it.

Also, if you need to reboot your cable modem or your Airport Exterme during trouble shooting, make sure you power on the cable modem first, wait for it to stablize, than power on the Airport Exterme, and than the rest of your system.
 
There's nothing for 'Primary DNS Suffix' or 'Connection-Specific DNS Suffix' listed... though, admitedly, I don't really know what I'm looking at.

I installed that airport update... hasn't affected my situation at all. It's not Parallels related at all, but the Xbox 360 can't see a WPA-secured network all of a sudden... I doubt this is related, but since I feel like I have ghosts in my machines what the hell do I know?

Any other thoughts... this is so frustrating...
 
I just solved my problem my manually entering the DNS numbers in the windows networking TCP/IP space provided....

Have you ever heard of this happening with Apple Airports? It seems to have cascaded throughout my network, with each computer/game/parallels needing to eventually have these numbers entered manually.

Very annoying... though fixed... for now... I hope!
 
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