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Fjordor · Local time: Mar 29, 2006, 12:46 AM

So, I installed OpenOffice onto the family computer because mine was temporarily out of commission. (moving)
Apparently however, it manages to block off all internet access. After uninstalling it, the internet worked just fine.
The computer is on a wireless connection.

Can anyone explain this?

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Fjordor · Local time: Mar 30, 2006, 03:40 AM

These were the some of the same thoughts that I had.
Here are more details:
-OO was not running at the time of attempted internet access.
-Actually, the problem was that the router (Linksys WRT54G) would not assign an IP to the computer. Therefore, it could not access anything on the network. System resources are not a problem. There is 1 gig of RAm in there.
-I never attempted to access the internet when OO was open, so I cannot say for sure if that might have affected it.
All i know is that the router would assign an IP address to the computer when OO was not on the machine.

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Fjordor · Local time: Mar 30, 2006, 07:54 PM

What would you say if this situation were recreated multiple times, thus exhibiting that it is more than mere coincidence?

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Fjordor · Local time: Apr 1, 2006, 01:22 AM

Originally Posted by Sausageboots

So Open office seems to be stopping your IP address from being configured?
Have you tried going to command prompt and typing in ipconfig /release followed by ipconfig /renew?

Yes.
Actually, I even assigned an unused IP address, subnet mask, the gateway address, and correct DNS addresses, but to no avail. The Windows notifiers even said that connection to the network was established. However, no usable connection was made(i.e. access to the other computer, mine, on the network, was not possible, as well as internet access)

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Fjordor · Local time: Apr 1, 2006, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by Luxo

I think he meant that he DID try it a lot of times with the same result.

Actually, I have yet to perform an extensive experimental procedure on this. I was suggesting, however, that the results of said application of the scientific method would be consistent with the hypothesis that OpenOffice is, in some way, causing this problem.

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