Meikahna
Hello! I live in a college apartment (so no access to router). When I hook up my ethernet cable to my computer, all of my messengers work and are connected but I cannot use internet browsers. I recently reformatted my computer and was using a wireless adapter, but here the internet is so slow that there's really no point and for a decent connection you need to be plugged into the wall. The wall connection worked fine until I reformatted.
This happened before when I moved to my first college and had to use the ethernet cable. I've done everything from messing around with internet explorer proxy settings and whatnot, but what did work was something I found in a thread. It instructed me to go somewhere and delete a file that was blocking the internet part, I guess? I deleted this setting/file and the ethernet connection worked just fine afterwards. I can't find this thread (probably not on this website) anymore. Does anyone here know possibly what the file was?
(Using windows 7, and sorry if this isn't the right place to ask!)
I've never heard of deleting files to make an Ethernet connection work, but:
1: Did you reply to said thread? If so, you should try digging through your post history.
2: Does your university network require any services such as Safeconnect etc to work? If you go to your university's IT website, this answer should be relatively easy to answer.