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I have an iMac 21 1/2 late 2009 running High Sierrra
All was fine until a little earlier this evening, but the 'boss'/better 1/2/wife came and told me that she couldn't get an internet site to come up.
On checking I found that using Firefox I couldn't get any site to come up, including the 192.168.1.etc. for the router. The connection was by ethernet. So I turned on the wifi connection and had the same result. I then had both ethernet and wifi turned on/connected.
Next I tried to send a test email to myself from the iMac. That didn't go either and just sat in the 'Outbox'. Next, I tried to send a test email from our MacBook Pro. That went and was received OK by the MBP but not by the iMac
I tried to access the internet using Safari. No access. So I tried to reboot the iMac and try the internet with the same result, no access.
Mt next try was to boot in safe mode with just Mail and Firefox, but still no access to either.
I wondered if there could be a contention problem with having both ethernet and wifi on so I disconnected the ethernet, but it didn't make any difference. I haven't had any problems with both on before when I have moved the MBP out of ethernet connection range and forgot to turn wifi off on reconnecting the ethernet
I had a look at the router config from the MBP and saw that the iMac is disconnected on both the ethernet and wifi.
I an sorry if this is a little confused, but I am totally confused and have tried everything I can think of? Any help would be greatfully taken, but I have to get to bed now as my brain cell is nick-nacked!
All was fine until a little earlier this evening, but the 'boss'/better 1/2/wife came and told me that she couldn't get an internet site to come up.
On checking I found that using Firefox I couldn't get any site to come up, including the 192.168.1.etc. for the router. The connection was by ethernet. So I turned on the wifi connection and had the same result. I then had both ethernet and wifi turned on/connected.
Next I tried to send a test email to myself from the iMac. That didn't go either and just sat in the 'Outbox'. Next, I tried to send a test email from our MacBook Pro. That went and was received OK by the MBP but not by the iMac
I tried to access the internet using Safari. No access. So I tried to reboot the iMac and try the internet with the same result, no access.
Mt next try was to boot in safe mode with just Mail and Firefox, but still no access to either.
I wondered if there could be a contention problem with having both ethernet and wifi on so I disconnected the ethernet, but it didn't make any difference. I haven't had any problems with both on before when I have moved the MBP out of ethernet connection range and forgot to turn wifi off on reconnecting the ethernet
I had a look at the router config from the MBP and saw that the iMac is disconnected on both the ethernet and wifi.
I an sorry if this is a little confused, but I am totally confused and have tried everything I can think of? Any help would be greatfully taken, but I have to get to bed now as my brain cell is nick-nacked!