Default Gateway Is Not Available...

[St0rmSlaSh]

You lost me at "I like Windows XP....."

 

smh

It's not a bad OS. I mean, I would prefer windows 7, but I don't mind XP

[-=HipKat=-]

I think XP was the WORST OS MS ever put out. Terrible., It was ugly, slow, devoured resources, needed 3 A/V-Spyware programs running in the background because of all the security holes. Slow, depended on IE and anything you left open would freeze if you left it alone for too long

[St0rmSlaSh]

I think XP was the WORST OS MS ever put out. Terrible., It was ugly, slow, devoured resources, needed 3 A/V-Spyware programs running in the background because of all the security holes. Slow, depended on IE and anything you left open would freeze if you left it alone for too long

That does not happen to me I have malwarebytes on this pc and it detects some things, but they never come back And you can also change the looks of i as well

[RedBaird]

I think XP was the WORST OS MS ever put out. Terrible., It was ugly, slow, devoured resources, needed 3 A/V-Spyware programs running in the background because of all the security holes. Slow, depended on IE and anything you left open would freeze if you left it alone for too long

 
You must have been doing something wrong!    I thought that Windows Me or Vista were the ones with lowest opinion rating.  

[-=HipKat=-]

 

You must have been doing something wrong!    I thought that Windows Me or Vista were the ones with lowest opinion rating.  

I was ok with Vista, ME... meh!

 

I wish I was doing something wrong but one thing I know how to do is tweak and streamline a computer. I hated XP

[Ol Smoke]

I was building systems during the time of Windows Me.  I built two.  Went back to 98Se.  Stayed with it till Win2000.

Never built a system with Vista.I stayed with XP.

[Xernicus]

I occurs mostly on web browsing. When I play ET though, it never happens.

OK, lets get what Windows has set as the default gateway address via ipconfig.

 

You'll get an output like this:

Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : PK5001Z
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : fd00::7851:d246:e81b:2ac9
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : fd00::571:29df:42ae:4b6e
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : fd00::28de:4940:1af8:da86
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : fd00::4896:ab48:7505:5ed7
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : fd00::4951:b9b4:b99d:c6ba
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : fd00::5028:8e0a:8bf6:fe06
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : fd00::804e:3466:2207:cfe4
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : fd00::b0e8:29e6:3927:e616
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::7851:d246:e81b:2ac9%4
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.103
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

Now let's run a tracert to make sure that your default gateway is indeed the modem, and not just a router. What we're going to be looking for here is two 192.168.x.x (or any other local-only reserved IPs) addresses over the first two hops.

Tracing route to fearless-assassins.com [144.76.100.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     2 ms     1 ms  PK5001Z.PK5001Z [192.168.0.1]
  2    38 ms    37 ms    38 ms  tukw-dsl-gw67.tukw.qwest.net [63.231.10.67]
  3    38 ms    38 ms    37 ms  tukw-agw1.inet.qwest.net [71.217.186.17]
  4     *       39 ms     *     sea-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [67.14.41.194]
  5    38 ms    38 ms    38 ms  63.146.26.54
  6    39 ms    38 ms    38 ms  if-0-0-0.core1.00S-Seattle.as6453.net [64.86.123.2]
  7   199 ms   201 ms   205 ms  if-5-1-0-0.tcore2.CT8-Chicago.as6453.net [206.82.141.9]
  8   190 ms   190 ms   189 ms  if-22-2.tcore1.CT8-Chicago.as6453.net [64.86.79.2]
  9   193 ms   194 ms   193 ms  if-26-2.tcore2.NTO-New-York.as6453.net [216.6.81.28]
 10   206 ms   189 ms   194 ms  if-8-2.tcore1.NTO-New-York.as6453.net [63.243.128.69]
 11   193 ms   190 ms   191 ms  if-11-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [63.243.128.38]
 12   192 ms   191 ms   194 ms  if-8-2.tcore2.AV2-Amsterdam.as6453.net [80.231.131.6]
 13   192 ms   201 ms   194 ms  if-2-2.tcore1.AV2-Amsterdam.as6453.net [195.219.194.5]
 14   190 ms   188 ms   189 ms  if-6-4.tcore1.FNM-Frankfurt.as6453.net [195.219.156.61]
 15   191 ms   193 ms   191 ms  if-7-2.tcore1.FR0-Frankfurt.as6453.net [195.219.50.1]
 16   204 ms   216 ms   205 ms  195.219.219.10
 17   211 ms   209 ms   210 ms  core22.hetzner.de [213.239.245.17]
 18   209 ms   209 ms   209 ms  juniper4.rz19.hetzner.de [213.239.245.150]
 19   208 ms   210 ms   212 ms  hos-tr3.ex3k24.rz19.hetzner.de [213.239.243.202]
 20   291 ms   252 ms   255 ms  fearless-assassins.com [144.76.100.131]

Trace complete.

If you see two local-only IPs at the first two hops, then I may be on the right track. If there's just one, then we may be looking at an interface/driver problem. That doesn't quite "add up" to me though...

 

Life tip:

 

When I was your age, when I'd run into problems like this I was tempted to 'nuke' the OS installation and start from scratch too. But rarely ever does this fix the problem at hand. All you're doing is bypassing it. Now when you step right over a problem, then you do not learn how to fix it. And in IT, you need fixes and solutions-- you can't just be nuking customer's / the company's computers and expect to make it out still employed (even if you make backups). It's just not good practice.

 

[RedBaird]

FYI:  I get two IPv6 addresses for the first two 'hops' through a cable/wireless/phone router (or whatever device it actually is ).