Recent content by TightPants

i have a cable modem router combo and a wireless extender, both netgear brand. i am having problems with gaming because of the placement of the routers and where my room is located with my pc. i was wondering if i could somehow disable the wireless portion of the cable modem router and hook up a...

Yeah sorry. So under the networking center on Windows 7 it used to say I was directly connected via Ethernet and had internet access. After we installed a New modem/router it changed from Ethernet to local area connection and I cannot browse further than a generic search engine. I've looked some...

So my computer used to have an Ethernet connection. It now says it has a local area connection and will only let me view yahoo, Google, and basic search engines but not actually view websites. Is there a way to fix this or to change it. Back to a true Ethernet connection?

I have a netgear c6300 modem/router. I just called Comcast a few days ago and had them activate the modem/router. The 2.4ghz and 5ghz both have internet access but direct connection via Ethernet does not. Any idea as to why this may be or how I can fix it?