Okay, so my boyfriends laptop (a couple of years old, Acer Aspire) won't connect to the internet all of a sudden, and it appears to only have occurred since he first connected his Ipad to the same network.
Often when he turns the laptop on (around 9 times out of 10) it says 'local only' where the internet information is, but sometimes after several times of repeatedly turning it on and off (and the router) it will finally connect. This morning however it won't at all.
Often when trying to connect to the internet, a dialogue comes up explaining an 'IP address conflict'. His computer runs windows vista and he has tried literally everything under the sun, he has attempted to update the driver this morning, only to be told it is already the latest version.
Don't know what to do! We have both tried everything to our knowledge and more, and none of the fixes on google seem to be effective. Even PC World failed to do anything of any use!
Please help, anyone who is good at networking etc, this has been going on for several weeks, he's desperate!
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