Connected to the Internet but it keeps timing out

[KitsonRis]

Updated iTunes yesterday, all fine. Then today my CPU was being dominated by photostream.exe (or something similar) and I couldn't access the Internet, despite being connected. Solved the CPU issue with a simple google search. But I still can't get onto the Internet, although I am connected! It is as if the connection is timing out.

Done IP resets and checked the IP addresses etc with the help of Google. And also done a netsh winsock reset etc and nothing.

This has happened before with the CPU/iPhoto and no internet and I can't remember how I fixed it!
The only thing I can't do is reset the router as it is in my land lords house and they are away until the weekend (I live I the converted garage in the garden but use their Internet). I use a wired connection as the wifi won't reach to my place, so can't check if it works on my phone

I also want to try a format hard drive and restore but I don't have a Windows 7 disc as I bought it already installed and I can't get online to download a copy! Is there a way around this?

 

[KitsonRis]

Ok now iTunes is causing my CPU to go mental so what I apparently "fixed" isn't working.
But I can't help but wonder if updating iTunes, it causing my CPU to go mental and not being able to get onto the Internet are all linked. I am more annoyed about the lack of Internet

 

[DrR]

Not got something else you could plug the Ethernet cable into? I'd well turn that wired connection into a wifi one!

No chance of remotely rebooting the router? Guessing you don't know the admin password?

That's my ideas run out.

 

[Daz...]

If the routers not particularly new then you should be able to reset it using your computer. A lot of them have generic passwords for admin logins.

Saying that, as you're on a wired connection it may allow you to do it anyway.

 

[KitsonRis]

Laptop is dead and I don't have a charger for it. Did go for a wonder in the garden and connected my phone to the wifi and it was either reallllly slow or it has got the same problem.

I can't log into the router, I can force reset the password as the "admin" "changeme" password doesn't work but I need the routers serial number, so I can't do that!! It is a new-ish router. But I can see all the IPs on the network and they are all different.

 

[DrR]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

 

[KitsonRis]

Computer - yes, server all times. It needed to be restarted to make some of the IP changes and resets. I also did a basic restore to last week when everything was fine.

Router - no, I can't get into the main house! I am hoping it will either sort itself out over night or with a router restart.

But my iTunes is all gone wrong, I think it could be part of the problem. A few searches have found that there is a clash with the sync and APSDaemon and that, but those fixes haven't work, or I haven't got the right one yet

 

[KitsonRis]

Ok...so.....I had tried a few system restored, uninstall iTunes and that but nothing. Managed to get the router reset and it is all fine!
I am not sure what the problem was, but I ma thinking that unpdating iTunes had caused a clash with the network settings and maybe something i had done plus a router reset solved the problem. Also when iTunes is open the CPU idles at a good level and not at 100%

I have also goa a copy of the router admin password so I can remotley reset it int he future!!