Hey everyone. Just got out my old Win XP computer from my closet to run some old software that needed it, and reformatted and reinstalled XP with SP3.
My problem is that after installing my motherboard's chipset/network drivers I have a connection in my control panel's network adapter's menu that says I'm connected to the internet, but when I try to telnet or use a browser I get a 'cannot connect to the internet' error message.
The problem is that windows update and the 'ping' command both work fine. I've tried netsock reset and a few other commands and none of them seem to have done the trick.
I've found that Internet Explorer is really broken now on XP. Moreso if you tried to use it before everything was updated you could not even access google.
Have you tried with another browser like Firefox?
[QUOTE=pentium;52082574]I've found that Internet Explorer is really broken now on XP. Moreso if you tried to use it before everything was updated you could not even access google.
Have you tried with another browser like Firefox?[/QUOTE]
I haven't, but the fact that telnet also doesn't work leads me to believe that it's an underlying problem with the adapter settings than IE. I'll try with firefox and report back.
[editline]9th April 2017[/editline]
Welp, just installed firefox and tried it, apparently it was just 16 year old IE being a shit.
Should have been my first troubleshoot tbh. Thanks pentium.
It's such a weird issue. Everything else can see the outside world but even when you update to IE 8 it still bitches that it can't connect to some pages. You have to patch Windows all the fucking way before things start to remotely behave.
Anyways no problem.
[QUOTE=pentium;52082735]It's such a weird issue. Everything else can see the outside world but even when you update to IE 8 it still bitches that it can't connect to some pages. You have to patch Windows all the fucking way before things start to remotely behave.
Anyways no problem.[/QUOTE]
The older versions of IE don't support newer version of TLS and as of about a year ago, many sites will not use SSLv3 or older versions of TLS due to weak encryption. Even IE9 on Vista has this issue since it doesn't support anything newer than TLS 1.0 IIRC. Since HTTPS is so prevalent now, that causes issues.
Not a problem with 3rd party browsers since they normally roll their own encryption libraries.
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