Problem with internet connection

Question

I am working on Windows Vista. I have got two internet connections, one is WiFi connection with high speed and other is mobile network connection.

There is a very strange problem I am getting. When I connect to WiFi connection I an not able to surf internet (actually not all the sites). I am able to search on Google but when I click on any link in the search list it does not open. But I am able to surf all the pages in google.com domain and also all the pages in stackoverflow domain. But I am not able to go to page http://repo1.maven.org/maven2

But When I am connected by my mobile network. I am able to surf any site.

Can you please tell me what might me the problem with my settings.

Answer 1

Could be your DNS settings. Try connecting to the repo1.maven.org site site using "http://38.97.124.18/maven2" using your wifi connection. If that works, then the DNS in your wifi connection is not working (probably set to the wrong DNS server or just a bad DNS server). Some sites might still work in your wifi because the DNS lookups for those sites might be cached locally.

Answer 2

Have you tried removing the proxy settings that are present in the Tools --> Internet Options.

There should not be any proxy or connection settings. Mostly this happens when you use a laptop provided by your office. Office laptops are configured in such a way that they use the proxy for Interent and bypass the local office web applications. So give a try removing the proxy settings if any, and also check the Properties of Wireless network. It should be automatically configured. If manually configured, try removing this.