[IronYuppy]

I'm now on my laptop.

Last night, I was posting something to 'Mud and the internet just disconnected.

I checked all the connections, did the ipconfig bullshit thing, even uninstalled/reinstalled the ethernet card (built into the motherboard). Nothing.

Did all the diagnostics, and the device is working properly.

So today, after trying every-freakin-thing else, I went and bought a stand-alone ethernet card. Installed it, it's sending/receiving data and all the diagnostics work, but it - and the original ethernet device - simply will not detect a DNS.

Tried removing the firewall - nothing. Tried system restore - nothing. Tried hard-boots - nothing.

Tried everything - nothing.

I know the network is fine - I'm on it now (on my laptop). It's the fucking desktop.

This thing has never worked right.

What chokes me is that I wasn't even doing anything weird - it simply stopped working in the middle of a 'net session.

Fuck. That is all.