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by croney1979

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One of our employees purchased a new Toshiba Satellite P105-S6207 that come
with Vista Home Premium. She didn't like Vista and I spoke with their tech
support and they say the laptop was made specifically for Vista and they
won't be providing Windows XP drivers any time soon. I told her she is stuck
with it for now.

So the internet was working great for a week connecting through a Linksys
wireless G router. Since this weekend she says she can't on the internet at
all now. I took a look it and it connects to the router no problem. Her
daughter has Windows XP on a laptop and has no problems. When I looked at
the wireless connection status and settings, it says ipv4 is connected local
and internet. But ipv6 says limited. Any idea on why she cannot get
internet access at all now and she says she hasn't done anything different
except type a few letters and pay some bills.

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by ashri

Our team already bought Microsoft OS (Vista) for every branches of our organization.
(+- 20000 licenses) Suddenly we realised that this vista having problem on wireless connectivity. (Our organization is concentrating on wireless network now).

Really fed-up man. Just amagine how much we have spent.

Ashri Taib

by marshallstax50

i've found that if you connect or disconnect the ethernet cable, you have to reboot the modem. it's a real pain.

by calvinc

i realise this is way past the posting time, but just in case anyone else comes across this archive....

Check out Steve Lamb's blog on this topic here:
http://shorl.com/hoprajosuhepi

and type in the netsh command to disable the vista networking. seems to be working with one of my users ok at the moment...

by harshil_rit

I just got a new laptop today and i had exact same problem.
After reading reviews on various sites, all i did was
1) Shut down the computer
2) Unplug the router
3) Plug back router
4) Boot up laptop back

I am now connected with no problems so far. will keep you posted. Still few hours only.

by Member 27621285

My HP 1710N pc for no apparent reason whatsoever has done the exact same thing. My wired ethernet connection type changed from INTERNET to LOCAL ONLY and I cannot figure out how to get it back to INTERNET. I have reset my cable modem and router, but not while the PC was powered off. I'll try that. Currently, I am using my USB wireless and it is working fine. I have another XP PC connected to the same router and it has worked just fine without any interuption.

by jennysmbox-0001

I have exactly the same problem, and have also not found answers anywhere. THe only thing I can think of is that the router doesnt support Vista - has anyone eliminated that as an issue - I am more than willing to buy a new ADSL model/router if that is the problem!!

by salemail

i seriously have the exact same problem.. even to the limited part, and it working on my XP laptop. Vista is a load of bull. when i first installed it worked fine (when cable was connected to modem, now that dont even work). I have been having this problem for 6 weeks... my $3000 new laptop is useless.

by landon.roy

well its not useless yet try using it to hold papers, if that dont work go out and buy a usb to nic adapter i found this to work

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