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<blockquote data-quote="ukchucktown" data-source="post: 1221098" data-attributes="member: 129039">If you mean a number of people have posted about self-assigned IPs then I'm not surprised anyone ever posts a solution because in most cases the problem is usually a network configuration error and not an inherent issue with their computer or operating system. A self-assigned IP basically means you have a bad network setup. In some cases it might point to a hardware issue but that's rare.I noticed from your screenshot that you were connected with a static address of 192.168.1.22. Your DNS is wrong unless your router is configured as a DNS server so if you tried to access a web site by name it will fail; otherwise; I'd say you are actually connected to the network. It's easy to test if you are familiar with the ping command. You can run ping from Windows or a Mac. Open a terminal and type &quot;ping 192.168.1.22&quot; ip address based on your screenshot. Your computer should respond. If not, your network setup is probably bad. If that doesn't work, I'd plug directly into the router, bypass the switch and test again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ukchucktown, post: 1221098, member: 129039"] If you mean a number of people have posted about self-assigned IPs then I'm not surprised anyone ever posts a solution because in most cases the problem is usually a network configuration error and not an inherent issue with their computer or operating system. A self-assigned IP basically means you have a bad network setup. In some cases it might point to a hardware issue but that's rare. I noticed from your screenshot that you were connected with a static address of 192.168.1.22. Your DNS is wrong unless your router is configured as a DNS server so if you tried to access a web site by name it will fail; otherwise; I'd say you are actually connected to the network. It's easy to test if you are familiar with the ping command. You can run ping from Windows or a Mac. Open a terminal and type "ping 192.168.1.22" ip address based on your screenshot. Your computer should respond. If not, your network setup is probably bad. If that doesn't work, I'd plug directly into the router, bypass the switch and test again. [/QUOTE]

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