I have an Android phone and a notebook running Windows 7, both are Wi-Fi enabled. Both devices are on the same network and they can't see each other (I can't ping phone from notebook and vice versa). But, to make it more weird, let me show you my network structure.
Name - OS - IPv4 Address
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Router - - 192.168.1.1
ComputerXP - WinXP - 192.168.1.103
ComputerW7 - Win7 - 192.168.1.104
NotebookW7 - Win7 - 192.168.1.106
Telephone - Android4 - 192.168.1.109
Now, ComputerXP
and ComputerW7
can ping all devices in given network. NotebookW7
and Telephone
can both ping Router
, ComputerXP
and ComputerW7
. The only connection that does not work is Notebook7 <--> Telephone
.
I have previously had this problem, I tried restarting NotebookW7
, Telephone
and Router
, disabling and re-enabling Wi-Fi connection and firewall, pinging anywhere and nothing was working. Later on when my dad came home, I wanted to show him this situation, but suddenly I was able to connect to NotebookW7
from my Telephone
like magic. I was happy that the issue got fixed. I stopped using this connection for a while and now I wanted to establish it again and guess what, it's again not working. I have no idea what is going on.
I used ping on Windowss and Ping & DNS on Android to test ping.
EDIT 1: For some reason, I was not able to ping ComputerW7
using my Telephone
for a while. So in my Telephone
I started external software for managing files. I added new network place with IP Address of ComputerW7
(192.168.1.104) and pressed test connection. It was doing something for a while and then it printed "Test successful". I went back to Ping & DNS, and re-pinged same IP Address and it started working for some reason. I did same thing with my NotebookW7
, but I got "Test not successful" in my file manager.
EDIT 2: Little bit more weirdness. I added one more Android Phone (lets call it just Phone
) to the network and checked all possible pings from outside to the Phone
. Nothing worked. Then I tried to connect to VLC Player at ComputerXP
using Phone
and it worked. After that I was able to ping Phone
from ComputerXP
. Not really sure how this works. Only difference is that Phone
has Android 4.2.2, but Telephone
has 4.1.2.
EDIT 3: New thing I tried was to create Wi-Fi Router from Telephone
and connecting to it using NotebookW7
, it worked. However, I still was not able to ping it.
Router
,ComputerXP
andComputerW7
). However, I am not sure if this is the right app to perform this kind of diagnostics.