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[Styphelus]

I've had my D-Link 625 running just fine for about 2 months now. This morning however, when I turned on the computer, Network magic started saying it could not find an internet connection. Turned on my laptop and got the same message there as well, but the internet was running just fine. My wireless connection seemed to be fine as well. I uninstalled and re-installed network magic. Kept getting the same message. After trying to solve the issue without success I decided to reset the router. When I went to re-install it, it could not find the internet connection. Tried time and time again without success. I set it up manually and it seemed to work just fine but still refused to detect the internet connection if I tried to install it through the wizzard (but the wizzard worked 2 months ago).

My laptop seems to be running fine as well but network magic no longer works and I can't share folders or printers.

Does anyone know how to go about fixing this issue? One night it was fine and the next morning nothing seemed to work. I've reset the modem and the router, unpluged them and pluged them back in and tried a different network adapter. Also updated the firmware to ver 3.08 but that didn't help either. The internet is working on both computers even if I keep getting told it doesn't find a connection.

I'm using Rogers cable (Canada), my desktop is running XP SP2, my laptop Windows Vista Home Basic.

[GadgetGrrrl]

I discovered on a Linksys forum that as of sometime on 7-3-2009 everyone running NM is seeing the same thing.  NM says you are not connected to the internet but you are (as witness my ability to post this.) 

Apparently Network Magic detects the internet by contacting (somehow) the purenetworks.com website.  That website seems to be down, and apparently there isn't anybody there (over this three day weekend) to bring it back up.  So the program can't find the site and, ergo, it thinks you have no internet connection. 

I had tried rebooting my machines several times and rebooting my wireless router (I'm running a DIR-655) and the DSL modem, to no avail.  Fortunately I had not gone so far as to uninstall and reinstall the program, something I would be reluctant to do because I have had nothing but grief for two years on my Vista system and besides, I knew that nothing had changed on *any* of my systems between Thursday and Friday.

So the bottom line is, it isn't you or your machine or your software.  It's the fault of the NM site admin or some bonehead who put the site down and didn't bring it back up.  I suppose they could be the innocent victim of a Denial of Service attack; you never know ...