[cashflyer]

I hate to bring this here, as I bet there is a simple solution that I have overlooked (short of buying a replacement laptop).

My new-ish laptop does not have a CD/DVD drive and I just received some work related training junk that requires that ability. So I dragged out my 2008 Toshiba laptop and fired it up.

I should have left well enough alont, but it had a lot of old junk on it. So I opened the restore CD that came with it and selected "restore to out-of-the-box".

Now I have a nice new install. And the training discs give me an error that says I must get a Service Pack upgrade. Simple... connect LAN wire and select windows update from the start menu.

Not so simple. The computer cannot reach windows update.

I open a IE window and try to get online. Nope. Just failed attempts.
HOWEVER - I can open a command prompt and ping google, yahoo, and any other site. I do have internet connectivity.


Do you guys have any idea why I can ping the net but cannot browse the net (or get to win update) ?