
Network Recovery
DNS Server Not Responding: Check One Windows 11 PC
On a personal Windows 11 PC, first establish whether the problem affects one device or the whole network.
A Wi-Fi icon proves a local wireless link, not a functioning route to the internet. Test the links separately and the mystery gets much smaller. Router restarts are not factory resets, forgetting a network erases its saved credentials, and every destructive step arrives with its receipt.

On a personal Windows 11 PC, first establish whether the problem affects one device or the whole network.

Recover a home network by testing its links in order: provider service, modem or ONT, router, Wi-Fi or Ethernet, then one device.

A Wi-Fi icon without internet means the device joined the local wireless network but has not proved a working path beyond it.