I love my Surface Pro 2 but it is getting old, so about 4 months ago I installed Ubuntu. It has been ten year since I used Red Hat and SuSE so it has been a ruff ride, but I'm going to go ahead and get rid of my other OS completely if all goes well with installing the software I have to have for school in VM. I sat down at my computer today and the Internet did not work so I ran some test and all of the devices in the house are working great and I have very fast upload and download speeds.
Now the Internet has always been slow on my Surface Pro up until I had to take a business trip a few weeks ago. When I got to my barracks I realized that my wireless only worked for a few minutes. After a lot of trial and error I finally figured it out and I was up and running again.
Now I can connect to the Internet by connecting an Apple device or threw WiFi other than what is running in my house. I have Fios and I can connect to the router threw Ethernet cable and WiFi but I can't connect to the Internet. At first I thought it was my computer so I spent several hours looking for answers but I can't find a step-by-step that gets me up and running yet. I know that this is a common problem because I found a lot of post asking for the same help. Some older post that deal with the same problem have been solved but I couldn't figure out how to apply them to Ubuntu 15.10. I am also starting to think that I might be gong at this in the wrong way. When I go into the router and look at the firewall I see a long list of events from today that have been blocked, so I know that the router's firewall is blocking my Unbutu. I have never messed with a router firewall before so I googled this too and I still could not figure out how to get threw to the Internet.
I never use the wireless in my house on this device, so if someone could help with the Ethernet that would be great.
I have found a problem, eth0 has no IP adres, but only when I am trying to connect to Fios (as I type this I know it makes no since.) I have pics but but I can't get them to upload.