Ok this is the first time i havent been able to fix a pc problem, especially with researching the internet.
Long story short, lost internet while connected to VPN. Killswitch activated.
Came home, realized the issue, reconnected the VPN, all was fine. Except its not. Internet doesn’t work AT all without VPN. EVEN with killswitch disabled, ExpressVPN uninstalled, and Network adapter reinstalled. After hours of research, nothing worked, EXCEPT manually changing the DNS on my IP4 (or whatever it is) to googles DNS 8.8.8.8 etc.
This fixed the problem… Sort of. I now have another unique problem: every so often, I will lose internet completely while on the wifi (Xfinity) on ANY device im using. Even my android phone. I turn on ExpressVpn on my phone, and internet works again, same for the PC.
The outage seems to be temporary; it just happened on my phone again as I was writing this post, and then a few minutes later, i disconnected from VPN and it works again.
If I were to hazard a guess, I dont think xfinity likes my google DNS and it’s killing my connection from the PC every so often, causing the modem to perhaps reset?
Modems in the other room so I can’t see what lights are going off as this happens.
I think if I could restore my pc without having to use the GOOGLE dns, id be fine. But i don’t know how to properly fix my initial issue.
Thanks for reading!