I just had this issue but resolved it a few days ago: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xpnetwork/thread/d16f8409-119e-495a-8afa-dffbd310502c Now today again I can't connect to the internet. The same solution that worked in the link above does not work now. After going through basically the same troubleshooting technicques I realize that when I run the ipconfig /renew command I get "An error ocurred while renewing interface Local Area Connection : unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out."I'm lost on where to go on this now...1 person got this answerI do too