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So I never had an issue connecting using DHCP. Then I changed my network so everything has a static IP address. I assigned an IP address on my T-Mobile MDA and now it will not connect to the internet. It does however seem to be connected to the wireless router.
When I use IE or Opera it looks for the host then a get an error message. Occasionally it will look up the site and downlaod the webpage but this takes a very long time. Even when I try to connect to my router using the IP address, it does not work therefore its not the DNS entries.
I changed the SDIO adaptor to use a static IP. Should I change one of the other adaptors too?
I have the wireless G hack enabled but even tried with just wireless B.
have u checked and made sure that u have the gateway address inplace? in the connections page check if your proxy server is set up correctly. also make sure ip is within range for the router to use. hope that helps.
Hi everyone,
I would like to connect to my laptop next room from local network. I can connect perfectly when I type in my IP address into the first textbox (Computer), but I can't connect when I type in my Computer Name (full computer name) instead. I tried MyPCName as Computer, \\MyPCName as Computer, forwarding port 3389 to my IP, leaving domain name empty, putting in my workgroup name as a domain, putting in my computer name as a domain, putting in myPCName\MyUserName as Username, \\MyPCName as Computer, still the same. It won't connect unless I put in the IP address. I would like to do this since my workplace assigns a different IP to my laptop then I assign at home, but naturally I have the same computer name at both places, so I would like to have a permanent setting for both places.
I'm running Windows 7 64 bit on my laptop and 1.66.405.2 ROM on my HTC HD2.
Many thanks in advance.
can you connect to it ok using another computer? might be a dns issue at a guess...
I can connect from other computers fine. Also on my HD2 I can see the host names of PC's under Resco Explorer and map them. However, remote desktop mobile refuses to work with the Computer Name. I can ping my Laptop's IP and also Computer name from pingbox2. Only in Remote Desktop Mobile there is a problem.
windows 7 by default blocks remote desktop connections from different versions of remote desktop. if you right click computer and select properties, then choose remote settings on the right hand side and select the middle option (accept connections from all verions of remote desktop). havent tried this my self but it solves most issues when using different versions of windows
OK, I sort of figured it but would still appreciate some help. Here is how I got it to work:
I had OpenDNS IP under DNS settings for wireless adapter. I deleted them. If I don't do this, pinging my computer name from HD2 always brings 67.215.65.132, which is opendns and not my true local IP, i.e. 192.168.x.x. I also had to disable the data connection (3G) and only have wireless. If I don't disable 3G, I can only connect with IP and not computer name. Only after doing these 2, when I pinged my computer name, I got the true local IP and I was able to connect with Remote Desktop Mobile using computer name. Now my question is:
1- I don't want to quit using opendns, is it possible?
2- I don't want to disable 3G connection every time, is it possible?
thanks in advance.
For me it works with MyPCName in computer and empty domain, both for XP and 7.
Something seems strange with your phone's networking configuration. At a guess (and this is a long shot), I would check your VPN settings on your phone to make sure you're not connecting to a different domain over 3G as this might explain why it works when you turn off the data connection on the phone and why it works by IP address.
As I said though, it's a long shot and is the only thing I could think of that fits your particular symptoms...
ozkaya said:
OK, I sort of figured it but would still appreciate some help. Here is how I got it to work:
I had OpenDNS IP under DNS settings for wireless adapter. I deleted them. If I don't do this, pinging my computer name from HD2 always brings 67.215.65.132, which is opendns and not my true local IP, i.e. 192.168.x.x. I also had to disable the data connection (3G) and only have wireless. Only after doing these 2, when I pinged my computer name, I got the true local IP and I was able to connect with Remote Desktop Mobile using computer name. Now my question is:
1- I don't want to quit using opendns, is it possible?
2- I don't want to disable 3G connection every time, is it possible?
thanks in advance.
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about the open dns issues, I suspect that can be solved by making sure your router lets the incoming connection into your home network (you say it resolves to 66.whatever when open dns is used, shouldn't be a problem do long as you don't forget that will be your home ip address so that connection will neef to be allowed through the router and then forwarded by your routers virtual server (our whatever your router software calls out) to your laptops internal ip address.
as for the 3g it should use wifi over 3g by default..... mine certainly does, no need for me to disable it.
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Something seems strange with your phone's networking configuration. At a guess (and this is a long shot), I would check your VPN settings on your phone to make sure you're not connecting to a different domain over 3G as this might explain why it works when you turn off the data connection on the phone and why it works by IP address.
As I said though, it's a long shot and is the only thing I could think of that fits your particular symptoms...
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I think you're right, when the 3G is on (and also Wifi on), Resco shows computers from all around the country when I click computers near me and not my local network. When only wifi is on I can see my local computers. 3G probably has precedence over Wifi? How can I correct this?
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about the open dns issues, I suspect that can be solved by making sure your router lets the incoming connection into your home network (you say it resolves to 66.whatever when open dns is used, shouldn't be a problem do long as you don't forget that will be your home ip address so that connection will neef to be allowed through the router and then forwarded by your routers virtual server (our whatever your router software calls out) to your laptops internal ip address.
as for the 3g it should use wifi over 3g by default..... mine certainly does, no need for me to disable it.
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But the 66.whatever address is generic openDNS lookup IP and same for everyone. Are you suggesting me to route this IP to my local IP, i.e. 192.168.x.x? Oh, one more thing, I can also connect when 3g and wifi are both on, but only through computer's IP and not computer name. Can you connect with computer name while both are on and connected?
when your phone does a dns lookup on the name it resolves to the open dns assigned address (not the same for everyone, otherwise the open fns system wouldn't work) so to connect to your computer the phone sends its request to open dns who forward that request to your current actual address.at home that address is your home ip address BUT it isn't your laptops address it is your routers address.(stop reading here if you don't have a router).
so the router needs to be told "if you get a connection request in port (whatever the remote desktop port is) please forward it to (laptop ip address)
its called port forwarding in some routers, virtual server in others.
samsamuel said:
so the router needs to be told "if you get a connection request in port (whatever the remote desktop port is) please forward it to (laptop ip address)
its called port forwarding in some routers, virtual server in others.
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You're mixing up things a bit - he's not using dns but the computer netbios name. The point is that he has wifi on and connected as well as 3G, thus with an "intranet" ip address on Wifi... so the program/phone should be looking up the name on that connection, where it would find it, instead of looking up over the 3G connection. As the netbios protocol is not routable, it has no chance of finding the computer name over 3G/internet and back home, even with port mappings.
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You're mixing up things a bit - he's not using dns but the computer netbios name. The point is that he has wifi on and connected as well as 3G, thus with an "intranet" ip address on Wifi... so the program/phone should be looking up the name on that connection, where it would find it, instead of looking up over the 3G connection. As the netbios protocol is not routable, it has no chance of finding the computer name over 3G/internet and back home, even with port mappings.
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you're totally right, I have a router and its port is forwarded to my laptop IP, but this is only good (and works well too) when I want to connect from Internet to my local network. I tried OpenDNS exceptions for VPN and defined an exception named as MyComputerName but it didn't work. Then I tried a dyndns solution, but it only works for external connections and not local network, i.e. it can't map local IP's. What I need is a dynamic client which can update my local IP.
I also tried to edit hosts entry in the registry with MyComputerName. It works for a single IP, but I'm not sure if I can write multiple IP adresses (my work and home local IP) into that. If I could maybe everything would be OK.
I've just tried a couple of things and it really works fine for me. If I connect Wifi only, I can remote desktop with the computer name. If I then connect data connection, it still works. Disabling wifi and obviously it doesn't work anymore. Re enabling wifi, it doesn't work at first, but does again after ~30 seconds once the netbios protocol has done its host lookup procedures.
There simply shouldn't be anything special to do.
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I've just tried a couple of things and it really works fine for me. If I connect Wifi only, I can remote desktop with the computer name. If I then connect data connection, it still works. Disabling wifi and obviously it doesn't work anymore. Re enabling wifi, it doesn't work at first, but does again after ~30 seconds once the netbios protocol has done its host lookup procedures.
There simply shouldn't be anything special to do.
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thank you very much for your time, I appreciate it. You're right in that waiting a bit resolves the issue (it's a bit more than 30 secs for me that's why I thought it wasn't working when 3G is enabled) but only when OpenDNS is not used. I assume you don't use OpenDNS, right? Once I put that one into equation, it takes over NetBIOS protocol and returns its IP instead of the local IP(192.168.x.x). As far as I understand, DNS lookup has precedence over NETBIOS and if the name is not found in DNS it consults NETBIOS protocol. However OpenDNS has this nice "feature" where it finds the name with its own IP. There are several posts about this on its webpage and they say to either disable the typo correction or put exceptions for Netbios names, but sadly none of them works for me right now.
Nope, no OpenDNS, never actually heard of it.
How does it work? Do you enter their DNS server address in the network settings of your pc/phone, or is it an app you run?
you click Start/Settings/All Settings/Connections/Wifi/First Button/Switch to Network Adapters tab/Select Broadcom 802.11 DHD Network Adapter/Switch to Name Servers Tab/Type in 208.67.222.222 for primary DNS and 208.67.220.220 for secondary DNS, click OK. that's all. Could you try if it's not so much trouble? Thanks.
OK, remote desktop doesn't work either with the OpenDNS servers in.
I'm pretty sure it must be a limitation of the remote desktop app itself, as resco explorer can still navigate and/or discover the network shares of my other PCs with no problem. NBTStatCE also finds everybody.
Wouldn't even surprise me, as that Remote desktop mobile has always been troublesome. I don't remember exactly, but in the WM5 days it was pretty much impossible to use on a local network due to a weird handling of names... if I remember well all "local" (NetBIOS) addresses without a '.' entered in the remote desktop app would be redirected to the "Work" connection, while "remote" ones with a period would be directed on the "Internet" connection. As a network card can only be defined as one of them, if you wanted it to work in both cases through Wifi you had to switch the card from Work to Internet and back all the time. And of course when it's on Work it breaks some other things that use the default system handling like mail.
I setup splash top for my home network but I need help getting splashtop to work on other networks when I am not at home. Any ideas?
Does anyone have any ideas how to get this to work?
If you got to there website they have instructions on how to set it up for outside networks. It involves setting up port forwarding on your router and getting the main ip address for you internet connection.
http://support-remote.splashtop.com...sys-wireless-g-broadband-router-as-an-example
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If you got to there website they have instructions on how to set it up for outside networks. It involves setting up port forwarding on your router and getting the main ip address for you internet connection.
Connect from Outside - using Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router as an example : Splashtop Remote - Support
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I have already followed these directions and still get a failed connection. I can connect fine with home network just not a remote network. Also a little info windows 7 with mcafee virus scanner and firewall. I also have a linksys e1000 router. Anybody know why I cant connect?
You may have already done this, but I needed to setup the entire range of ports (6783 thru 6785) to get mine to work. One mapping per port.
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You will to add port forwarding rule on your router. Add 6783-6785 for the port. Make sure the splash top software on your pc under network setting is set to 6783. When you add the ip address you need to add your WAN ip address not your machine ip address. Mac address will need to be that machine youre trying to log into. I have splash top setup to three of my computers at home. Able to access them without no issues from outside of my network. If you are still having issues try to disable your mcafee software and firewall. I have all three on Windows 7 all with firewall enable.
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You will to add port forwarding rule on your router. Add 6783-6785 for the port. Make sure the splash top software on your pc under network setting is set to 6783. When you add the ip address you need to add your WAN ip address not your machine ip address. Mac address will need to be that machine youre trying to log into. I have splash top setup to three of my computers at home. Able to access them without no issues from outside of my network. If you are still having issues try to disable your mcafee software and firewall. I have all three on Windows 7 all with firewall enable.
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I will try this when I get home from work. How do I make windows my primary firewall?
Dunno about McAfee, but the firewall shouldn't be causing any issues as long as you allow splashtop connection. I set up separate port forwarding for each one. TCP Any -> ****. Did that three times and it connected.
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Dunno about McAfee, but the firewall shouldn't be causing any issues as long as you allow splashtop connection. I set up separate port forwarding for each one. TCP Any -> ****. Did that three times and it connected.
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Some you saing port forward each port as in 6873 to 6873, 6874 to 6874, and 6875 to 6875? Do you have a linksys router?
Router model / make won't make a difference to what ports need to be forward, just how you actually go about doing it.
Well I guess I will try to open them individually.
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Some you saing port forward each port as in 6873 to 6873, 6874 to 6874, and 6875 to 6875? Do you have a linksys router?
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I did "Any to 6873" and etc. Just changed the destination port number for each one since "6873 to 6873" didn't work for me.
Are you guys able to connect to your pc from an outside network with the splashtop thats included in the mycloud or did you purchase it from the market?
I have port forwarding set up, added the pc and WAN ip (not local network ip), enabled "internet discovery" in experimental features on splashtop streamer on my pc and its still not working. I have no options to add mac address, just name, ip, password and port.
Splashtop is now $0.99 so i may just go ahead an buy it so i can use it on my other devices as well if the built in one doesn't support this.
Mine works well...after I set the ports to forward.
However someone did warn me about doing this and lack of security...
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Are you guys able to connect to your pc from an outside network with the splashtop thats included in the mycloud or did you purchase it from the market?
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Yes, I am able to connect from outside of my network. I am using the one that came with the TF. I believe the one that comes with the TF has a custom resolution of 1280x800 just for the TF. Where the one in the Market Place highest resolution is 1024 x 768. I tried both and the TF version looks much better. There is a area when you have to input the mac address for that machine. My port for one of my pc is "6873-6785"
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Yes, I am able to connect from outside of my network. I am using the one that came with the TF. I believe the one that comes with the TF has a custom resolution of 1280x800 just for the TF. Where the one in the Market Place highest resolution is 1024 x 768. I tried both and the TF version looks much better. There is a area when you have to input the mac address for that machine. My port for one of my pc is "6873-6785"
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Thanks for that info. Do you remember where you put the mac address because i don't see it when attempting to add a new computer.
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Nvm its working, maybe PC was off when I attempted to connect earlier from outside my house. Didn't need to put in Mac address afterall. Just wan IP and password I set and forward the ports.
Thanks guys
fone_fanatic said:
Thanks for that info. Do you remember where you put the mac address because i don't see it when attempting to add a new computer.
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Nvm its working, maybe PC was off when I attempted to connect earlier from outside my house. Didn't need to put in Mac address afterall. Just wan IP and password I set and forward the ports.
Thanks guys
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Cool glad you got it working. Now, I remember its not the mac address its the Wan address. The most important thing is the listening port 6783,6784, etc,etc,, depend on how many pcs you want to access.
From my desktop i am using BeeVPN and would love to have my phone connection using the VPN protocol protecting my traffic on my phone as well.
So now i am hoping someone here are using either beevpn or a similar service and have setup a secure vpn on their note and would share their experience in doing so?
I've setup a VPN to my home using Windows 7's built in VPN server. I used Dyndns to sort out the physical IP address to my home (since I don't have a static IP) and then set up the port forwarding on my router to forward VPN connections to the PC I have running the VPN service.
Works like a charm (PPTP protocol being used.)
I have openvpn on my XP home machine and also on my (rooted) note. It is a bit fiddly to get the note's internet traffic routing via the home XP box - that does not happen by default on an openvpn connection, you have to set it up in the openvpn server config file. Should then be OK but unfortunately, pushing the default gateway doesn't seem to work on Android in practice. The openvpn client on the note has a workaround for this - a menu option to "fix DNS problems" which does the job after the VPN is established.
I use this method for any stuff I do on public wifi other than basic web surfing where I have no security concerns. So, banking, utilities etc. all goes over VPN. I also use it when I need to present my home IP address rather than thet of the connection I'm currently on: eg. for watching UK TV streams whilst outwith UK, and for remote access to 3rd party systems that sit behind firewalls which allow my static home IP through but nothing else).
Connecting to the VPN from public wifi/3G is very easy (once I've woken the XP box with Wake on LAN). The only real downside is that your download speed over the VPN in this configuration is limited to the UPLOAD speed of your home broadband. I get 800Kbps which is sufficient for decent video streaming (skygo/TVcatchup).
The other major benefit of VPN is that you can remotely access your home PC's and services on them via internal ip addreses without having to open up ports on your router on the WAN interface.
I've had a Vpn set up on my note for about 4 months now with no problems.
I use vpnaccounts.com as the server very easy and simple to setup.
I just wish the Vpn would work using my data connection and not just Wifi but we can't have everything!
georgios73 said:
I've had a Vpn set up on my note for about 4 months now with no problems.
I use vpnaccounts.com as the server very easy and simple to setup.
I just wish the Vpn would work using my data connection and not just Wifi but we can't have everything!
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I'm located in Brazil and also use vpnaccounts.com on my laptop, pc, Galaxy Note and Nexus S. The server I connect to is in Dallas Tx.
I also use the 1 VPN app which gives you 1 click logon.
Everything works great!
Yes but don't you have to enter your VPN password every time you want to turn on the VPN?
I can't find a way to keep the password remembered by the device.
I have three Android devices and two laptops, all of which I have been using on my home wifi network for years with only minor issues now and again. All of which I have been able to resolve. Two of the Android devices are phones and are rooted with custom roms and one is an unrooted Nexus 7.
Sunday, the 6th of April (yesterday) all 3 of the Android devices lost internet connectivity spontaneously but both laptops still access the internet with no problems over wifi. I was not doing anything with the network or any of the 3 devices. The Android devices all still connect to the wifi and they can all access all the other devices on the home network. I can ping my phone from my laptop and I can ping my laptop from the phone. I can access the files on my phone using AirDroid. I have reset every device on the network including the wifi access point and the cable modem. I called my ISP and they are saying that it might be due to the fact that my cable modem has reached "End of Life" and does not support newer Docsis 3.0 technology which for some reason now precludes Android devices from accessing the internet. I don't buy it. I read up briefly on Docsis 3.0 and it is supposed to be backward compatible with Docsis 1.0 and 2.0. I have not had a chance to see if my phone or the other devices will connect to the internet through other wifi networks but I suspect they will. My phone does connect through the 3g network.
Anybody having this issue and if so have you found a fix? My only solution at this point is to buy a newer cable modem that supports Docsis 3.0. It's not all that expensive but I don't want to buy one if I can't confirm that is the problem. The one I have seems to be working fine with the laptops and was working fine with the Android devices before it quit working. If that is the problem.
If anybody has any suggestions as to how I might test this I would be grateful.
Do you have a terminal app? Start pinging your router then 8.8.8.8. Then if you can ping Google, then it is something else.
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That did the trick. At least for now.
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Do you have a terminal app? Start pinging your router then 8.8.8.8. Then if you can ping Google, then it is something else.
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Dude, you nailed it. I pinged google and that didn't work and when I pinged the IP it worked. I also was able to ping that 8.8.8.8 ip. I knew then it had to be a DNS issue.
I then set my IP on the phone to static and then I used the Google dns server IPs 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as my DNS servers and Bingo, it worked. Why was it working before? What changed overnight? And why did it occur to all three Android devices at the same time. Up until now I had been using DHCP and everything worked fine. I even went for a walk around the block and found a couple of unsecured wifi networks and connected to them and subsequently the internet. But when I got home and connected to my network, no joy. However, as stated in the OP, our wireless laptops work just fine. Maybe Comcast is sending out the wrong DNS IP or they just somehow no longer support Android???
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Dude, you nailed it. I pinged google and that didn't work and when I pinged the IP it worked. I also was able to ping that 8.8.8.8 ip. I knew then it had to be a DNS issue.
I then set my IP on the phone to static and then I used the Google dns server IPs 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as my DNS servers and Bingo, it worked. Why was it working before? What changed overnight? And why did it occur to all three Android devices at the same time. Up until now I had been using DHCP and everything worked fine. I even went for a walk around the block and found a couple of unsecured wifi networks and connected to them and subsequently the internet. But when I got home and connected to my network, no joy. However, as stated in the OP, our wireless laptops work just fine. Maybe Comcast is sending out the wrong DNS IP or they just somehow no longer support Android???
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I am having this exact same problem. My laptop connects to wifi and my desktop, ps3, and TV via Ethernet but all of a sudden about an hour ago my Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 can no longer access the internet. They are connected to the network however the signal indicators in the quick settings is orange and I can't access the internet.
Could you tell me exactly what you did to fix this as I am not good with networking type stuff at all...you mention pinging and DNS servers and I have no clue what you're talking about.
BTW I have AT&T U-Verse.
EDIT: I ping'd google in my phones terminal and it didn't work....I ping'd my router and that worked(I think it did anyway...it kept pinging and I had to close terminal to stop it)
I ping'd 8.8.8.8 and got Destination Net Unreachable.
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I am having this exact same problem. My laptop connects to wifi and my desktop, ps3, and TV via Ethernet but all of a sudden about an hour ago my Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 can no longer access the internet. They are connected to the network however the signal indicators in the quick settings is orange and I can't access the internet.
Could you tell me exactly what you did to fix this as I am not good with networking type stuff at all...you mention pinging and DNS servers and I have no clue what you're talking about.
BTW I have AT&T U-Verse.
EDIT: I ping'd google in my phones terminal and it didn't work....I ping'd my router and that worked(I think it did anyway...it kept pinging and I had to close terminal to stop it)
I ping'd 8.8.8.8 and got Destination Net Unreachable.
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I don't know what AT&T U-Verse is but the problem I had was that for some reason my Android devices would no longer access anything outside my home network. I used a terminal app that I have on my phone and I was able to ping 8.8.8.8 which I understand is one of Google's DNS servers. DNS stands for (Domain Name Service) which allows us humans to type in meaningful names in a browser rather than the IP address. If you can enter this http://74.125.224.72/ into your browser on your Android device you should get to Google. If that works then you need to point your device to a DNS other than the one assigned by your ISP. I just used 8.8.8.8 and that solved my problem. You can also change the DNS server in your gateway device, whatever it happens to be, and that would fix the problem as well. That is assuming you can reach Google using the IP address I have mentioned previously.
There should be all sorts of tutorials and suggestions regarding how you can make the necessary changes. It all depends on your device and network appliances.