Program updates broken
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Just installed - I have no problems with overall connectivity to the internet. But software updates for programs like Bitdefender and Windows Update are all failing. I can find no obvious way to change those programs' proxy settings as I did with my browser. Any ideas?
Okay, so I did as you suggested, and still no Windows Update, which also means no malware definitions from Bitdefender as well - don't like that at all. While I was connected direct from the PC's network adapter to the cable modem, I tried connecting to Windows Update and while I could pull the site up, when I searched for updates, the search eventually timed out reporting back an error code that I couldn't trace down in a brief online search. This leads me to believe it's a MAC address problem. Changing the DNS server addresses didn't affect anything, so I've changed them back to what they were originally presumably assigned during the DHCP process. My next stop is the helpdesk @ my ISP, I suppose. I can't be the only customer who's attached a wi-fi router to one of their cable modems.