<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000"> On 06/07/12 21:43, Colin Law wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAL=0gLvYY6qzt2gMgxE6un4KAkU3QRp6VbvDZ2-Y69D+wLVJMg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> What happens if, in a terminal, you enter ping <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</a> and if that fails try google directly ping 173.194.67.105 Also if you go to the network icon in the top panel, click it and click Connection Information what do you see? Colin </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> When it loses the connection, I did try the ping google.com but it did not get any reply. I could ping the router okay. Also the Network information showed an IP address and proper connection. But I am thinking something in a firewall is blocking internet access? I tried entering <blockquote>ufw status </blockquote> in the CLI and it said it was not running, so is there another firewall that gets installed in 12.04? David K </body> </html>