I just purchased a new PC with Win 8 Pro from Dell. Due to a problem, Dell replaced the HDD. Following this, the engineer installed Win 8.1 Pro ‘clean’. Though he forgot to connect the ethernet cable before the install, he’d already set up the wireless network at the set up stage so the PC [XPS 8700] picked it up no problem. Now that a short time has elapsed it appears to have been a successful install.
The problem, though, now seems to be that the ethernet connection is being treated as an ‘unidentified public network’. In the ‘Network Sharing Centre’, it says ‘network access denied’ even when I disable the wireless connection.
If I click on ‘ethernet’, up comes the ‘ethernet status’ box. Clicking on the ‘properties’ box brings up several options. Being non-technical, I just don’t understand these I’m afraid.
Even a non-techie like me knows that there is a huge difference between the download/transfer speeds between wired and wireless which is why I want to get the wired connection up and running before I start downloading stuff to the new PC.
I suspect that the answer is quite simple but I can’t work it out – I just don’t know enough about networks, homegroups etc. Is there anyone out there with sufficient knowledge of Win 8.1 to help me here?
Thanks
Mike