Many thanks to stduc, electronicsfreak and Jake Chaffee for these valuable contributions. I eventually found that the free-standing NIC I had installed was itself faulty, so both the onboard ethernet adapter and the supposed work-around were non-functional. I fitted a new NIC and can now access...
Thank you stduc for your prompt reply. My neighbour's computer has apparently been having internet connection problems for several months. I tried to re-install the NTL cable company's software and learned that the Ethernet adapter is faulty. I connected the system box from a spare computer...
Windows XP Home with SP1: IE V.7 returns "The page cannot be displayed". The cable company has supplied a new cable modem and ethernet lead and declares their part of the connection is working. IPConfig returns the IP address of 169.254.85.206 and a Ping of that address shows 4 packets sent and...
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