Fixpath

Network

Connected, but no internet

The Wi-Fi icon only means the radio joined the network. Internet is the next step. Compare with a phone before changing Windows.

  1. Try the same network on a phone. If the phone also opens nothing, restart the router: unplug it, wait thirty seconds, and plug it back in. If it stays dead, the fault is the ISP or the router.
  2. If only the computer fails, forget the Wi-Fi network and join it again. Check the password.
  3. In PowerShell run ipconfig /flushdns. If a site opens by its numeric address and not by name, set the adapter DNS to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 as a test.
  4. Turn the phone into a hotspot and join it from the computer. If the web returns, the home Wi-Fi is the problem. If it still fails, the problem is that computer.

Do not install a network optimizer. The phone-hotspot test already shows which side is broken.