I am having serious trouble connecting my Dell PC to the internet. I have the signal running through a modem and a router and hardlined to the computer. The computer automatically recognizes the signal but when I go to open an internet browser (or anything that requires internet access) it will not connect.

I have used this connection and router on my new lenovo laptop with no issue.

The router is a D-Link Di-624 and the settings are at default.

When I go to open the internet connection it says the connection is firewalled, which is what I suspect the problem is. However, when I go to turn off windows firewall it claims that due to "group networking" I am not allowed to do so (even though I am system admin). I have tried to allow all the possible fire exceptions for the internet port to no avail.

The strangest thing is that this PC has connected to this same router at a different location one week ago without any problem.

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

I fixed the problem and figure I would post the solution on here just in case someone else runs into something similar.

A basic hard reset of the router was all that was needed. The reset button on the back of the router itself did not work, you must do a hard reset (unplug it from the wall).

Thanks for the feedback.

hi johnny
a couple things to check.
click start, run, type services.msc click ok
look for DHCP Client make sure it's started
access the modem setup software usually http://192.168.1.1 in your browser.
the standard password is usually admin.

look to see if connection type is set to automatic. and make sure dhcp server is enabled.

i'm not familiar with dlink but the documentation will tell you exactly where everything is.