Read original post by Sagar Joshi at Windows Store Developer Solutions
I recently had an opportunity to work on a scenario where the Windows Phone 8 Emulator is not able to connect to the internet. Usually, one wouldn’t notice until you deploy a Phone App on the Emulator through Visual Studio and it won’t connect to web services, internet, etc. To confirm if it is the Emulator that is not able to connect to the internet or it’s just your App/web service, you can simply start Internet Explorer on the Emulator and browse to a web site.