Recently I connected my computer to the internet via ethernet cable and now I can no longer connect the computer to the HPLC. The connection between the computer and HPLC system controller is provided by an ethernet cable.
usually when you connect the computer to internet you has "obtain ip address automatically" in the TCP/IPv4 protocol, so the server can assign an IP to your PC, and to connect the computer to the HPLC you should have to configure the IP to be both in the same subnet.
For example if your PC is 192.168.0.1, then the HPLC should be in the same 192.168.0.x subnet.