I have a windows XP machine...with problems. It shows the internet as connected in the network props page, but it will not open any page in ie or firefox.
I did this and it did fine except on the ping neosmart.net. Released as it should, renewed as it should, flushed dns successfully, no ping on neosmart.net, and pinged the other with an avg of 51ms, no packet loss.
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns
ping neosmart.net
ping 209.200.246.147
any ideas?