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ADSL connects but cannot get internet pages

A friend has a problem where the internet regularly stops working, but can be activated again by re-booting the router.  In an effort to cure this I replaced the router, but while ADSL connects I cannot get any pages.  If I ping say www.google.co.uk, I get an ip address back, but the ping then fails to get a reply from google's ip address.
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1. Did you restart the modem?
2. Does the router get an IP from the ISP? Is DHCP enabled?
3. Is port forwarding enabled in the router?
4. Are any firewall functions enabled in the router?
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1. the new router has modem included (Belkin), the old one only the router had to be restarted to get the internet back.
2.Yes ip obtained automatically from the isp
3. I don't know, it was a new router so has factory defaults, I have used many of these routers before without problems
4. as 3. but I have tried disabling Norton and Zone Alarm firewalls which were active on the PC.
John.
Is there a login procedure for this ADSL connection and have this login been performed? Some routers have an option to store login data, perhaps this didn't work out properly in the new router?
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When you check the status page on the router, can you ping the internet gateway?  If you can ping the gateway can you ping the DNS address it gives you?  If you can't ping the gateway,  its something blocking on your pc. I would totally remove Zone Alarms and NIS (Disabling isn't enough) .  After rebooting you should also disable the windows firewall for testing purposes.  Try again to ping the gateway address and then the DNS.

If you still can't ping the gateway after all of that, connect the ADSL modem directly into the pc and establish a PPOE connection in windows XP.  Repeat the same steps and report back.

Also, do you have a laptop or another pc you could use to test the router?  
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yes the router logs in ok and connects.
I will go round either tonight or tomorrow and try the other suggestions and will report back.
Thanks for your help.
John
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I have had another look and here is a bit more detail.
there is a Voyager 200 router connected to the internet and then coupled via ethernet to a D-Link Airplay G wireless router.  I put a laptop on and realised that it was connecting to an ip address outside the D-link router range, so I may have solved the problem, I think that both routers may be acting as DHCP servers, so I need to turn one off.  Unfortunately I was very short of time and had to go then, but is there any preference as to which router acts as server?
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I had another look at the problem today, but failed to communicate at all with the D-link router or A belkin router which I took along.
ipconfig seems to always show the ip address for the voyager router regardless of which is plugged in.  If I do an ipconfig /release or /renew, I get an error message:-

Operation failed as no adapter is in the state permissable for this operation.

Please can anyone explain this.
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one more thing, just the basics, you do have a link light on both the router and the network card right?

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You were right about the static address, the owner's son had changed it since my previous visit. At the moment, he has also added a hub between the routers, the main PC now works off the hub with no problems, but the PC on the wireless network still requires that the wireless router is regularly re-set.  Maybe it is a router fault?
Yes there is a link light on both the router and the network card.
 I am a bit busy at the moment, but hope to get back and have another try in a week or so.
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Finally got the setup working reliaby.  Thanks to all for your help and information.
It was just a matter of getting all the settings right at the same time!