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No internet access after enabling parental controls
I have setup the parental controls on my router from my computer, when it is enabled I don't have internet access on that computer every other computer, phone or tablet works. I have the bypass accou...
Hi JamesGL,
Thank you for your reply,
I've been a bit frustrated with this problem and decided to switch to a different router brand but that was not really a success, I hooked up my router again yesterday and wanted to give it an other shot
At first I had the same problem, enabling LPC and no Internet connection on my computer, every other computer and device works fine btw.
So I started to check what is the difference between my computer and an other one, both have the same windows version. Then I realised that I (long time ago) entered an different DNS server address in my adapter settings, so I changed it to default again and everything works fine again
Hope this might help someone else as well
Thanks again
Hi Stelpie,
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JamesGL
Community Team
Hi JamesGL,
Thank you for your reply,
I've been a bit frustrated with this problem and decided to switch to a different router brand but that was not really a success, I hooked up my router again yesterday and wanted to give it an other shot
At first I had the same problem, enabling LPC and no Internet connection on my computer, every other computer and device works fine btw.
So I started to check what is the difference between my computer and an other one, both have the same windows version. Then I realised that I (long time ago) entered an different DNS server address in my adapter settings, so I changed it to default again and everything works fine again
Hope this might help someone else as well
Thanks again