Basically what it says in the title it says it is connected but then it will not do anything if i check the settings it'll have a tick for the comp the to router but the router to the net no :S?? belkin card, working driver, ZyXel router, all drivers updated atm what's this ping thing etc, i'm not rele into Netwroking more hardware guy myself as it's too confusing i'm 15 :P (also when it say's its connected it will not recieve even 1 byte of data if that helps)many thanks for any help

I have the same problem, but this post I published from Vista PC :) The "temorary"solution is use another browser, ex.Opera or Maxthon2, and its working, ICQ, yahoo messengers too, but IE7 still cant open pages and I stillcan'tactivate Vista, I have 2 days:)))