(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); For the past 5months my Acer Aspire thats running Windows 7 has been a pain. It lets me stay on Skype but when I try accessing websites it wont let me. I've tried everything, restarting my modem and router, flushing the DNS, clearing cookies and cache and renewing and releasing the IP address. But accessing websites on my mac works fine. I've tried checking if it was firewall blocking stuff but its not, I even uninstalled programs and anti viruses. It only lets me access websites sometimes then it just drops, but it always lets me go Skype. I did a network diagnoses and it says: "Your computer appears to be correctly configured, but the device or resource(DNS server) is not responding" And don't tell me to restore my computer as I don't have a windows recovery disc.

You know...No one has recovery disc for like past 8 years.....It is recovery partition. You press a button on boot to get to recovery.
I assuem also you tried different browsers

Tried using Internet Explorer right now, worked fine until I opened Skype. :fa:

Have you tried to disable the internet and re enable it? That happened with my acer then I threw it away and bought someone better

Yes I tried that :| It's been like this for 5months, right now its saying "The connection between your access point, router, or cable modem and the Internet is broken" I've tried restarting the modem and router, it works for the first 30min then the problem consists, im on my mac right now and the internet is working perfectly. I've tried reinstalling the network drivers aswell.

maybe it's a hardware issue

fresh install of windows or factory restore. i had the same problem about 7 months ago and i did a factory restore and it sorted the problem. i got a acer aspire 5551

I don't have a "Windows recovery disc" , it won't let me restore, i've tried eveyrthing... And my computer didnt make restore points automatically :/

Go to Control panel items>recovery>Advanced Recovery Methods should look like this You must login or register to view this content.. built into all computers these days

Problem is fixed, ended up restoring my computer. Mod can close this thread!