Lots of work to do

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Pit

Hi Folks,

seems that there is still much work to do on Vista. I tried both beta2
and now pre-RC1 and facing errors I can't believe.

The most curious thing is that regardless what browser one is using some
websites can't be accessed. At first I was believing that this might be
a problem with the website itself but even MS pages are affected. The
system is running on dual boot and with XP or Linux everything works
fine. I tried everything - Firewall on, off, other browser, even telnet.
Nothing worked

To make serious progress on a system that has no reliable internet
connection is real hard. So I will wait for the "real" RC1 and see if
this one will work.

Besides that I see a considerable increase in performance from beta 2 to
Pre-RC1. Good job on that.

Pit
 
What do you mean cant be accessed? Do you in fact have a network problem or
a web browser problem?

Maybe you have lots of work to do in reporting helpful bug reports in this
*BETA* .....
 
Pit said:
Hi Folks,

seems that there is still much work to do on Vista. I tried both beta2
and now pre-RC1 and facing errors I can't believe.

The most curious thing is that regardless what browser one is using some
websites can't be accessed. At first I was believing that this might be
a problem with the website itself but even MS pages are affected. The
system is running on dual boot and with XP or Linux everything works
fine. I tried everything - Firewall on, off, other browser, even telnet.
Nothing worked
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Can you provide some of that sites to test for me? I haven't
encountered any problems as of yet when it comes to surf-
fing the net, neither with IE nor Frefox.
To make serious progress on a system that has no reliable internet
connection is real hard. So I will wait for the "real" RC1 and see if
this one will work.

Besides that I see a considerable increase in performance from beta 2 to
Pre-RC1. Good job on that.
Click to expand...

Not just good, excellent I'd say :-) On my 2 GHz/1GB desktop Beta 2
was crawling, now it's perfectly usable, especially the search function
has received remarkably improvements.
Pit
Click to expand...

Kai-Uwe
 
Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe said:
Pit said:
Hi Folks,
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[snip]


Can you provide some of that sites to test for me? I haven't
encountered any problems as of yet when it comes to surf-
fing the net, neither with IE nor Frefox.
Click to expand...

www.citibank.com works fine while www.citibank.de times out.
www.mozilla.com, www.google.com don't work either. g.msn.com (that's the
MS download site) has sometimes problems.
The problem is that both IE and Firefox keep searching. Sometimes you
get "transferring data ..." but at the end the transfer always times out.

Pit
 
Anon said:
What do you mean cant be accessed? Do you in fact have a network problem
or a web browser problem?

Maybe you have lots of work to do in reporting helpful bug reports in
this *BETA* .....
Click to expand...

I in fact can't say if the problem is network or browser related. It's a
routed connection to the internet. Parallel sessions from another WinXP
machine work fine. Lookups are working on Vista and the router and some
sites can be accessed.

I would really like to report the bug (if it is one) but the reporting
app in Vista tells me that there is a network problem but it can't be
identified and hence not be reported.

Pit
 
Are you behind a router? Does it have an SPI firewall inbuilt? This tip
from Jimmy Brush may solve your browsing problems:

- Click start
- Type: cmd
- Right-click cmd.exe when it appears under Applications
- Click Run As Administrator
- Type the following: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
- Press enter
- Restart your computer


--
Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;)

Pit said:
Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe said:
Pit said:
Hi Folks,
Click to expand...
[snip]


Can you provide some of that sites to test for me? I haven't
encountered any problems as of yet when it comes to surf-
fing the net, neither with IE nor Frefox.
Click to expand...

www.citibank.com works fine while www.citibank.de times out.
www.mozilla.com, www.google.com don't work either. g.msn.com (that's the
MS download site) has sometimes problems.
The problem is that both IE and Firefox keep searching. Sometimes you
get "transferring data ..." but at the end the transfer always times out.

Pit
Click to expand...
 
[snip]
www.citibank.com works fine while www.citibank.de times out.
www.mozilla.com, www.google.com don't work either. g.msn.com (that's the
MS download site) has sometimes problems.
The problem is that both IE and Firefox keep searching. Sometimes you
get "transferring data ..." but at the end the transfer always times out.

Pit
Click to expand...

Pit, except for citibank.de I have no problem. Citibank.de will load fine
under XP, in both, Firefox and IE, but not under Vista. Under Vista, the
title bar of Firefox/IE reads "Citibank Deutrschland", I'm asked whether
I'd like to accept a cookie (Firefox, I configured it to ask), so there must
be some kind connection established. Anyway, Firefox and IE then sit
there, trying to load the site (a couple of minutes as of now that I'm ty-
ping this).

I turned off the phishing filter/protection mode in IE, but to no avail. In-
teresting, but I have no idea what may cause that behaviour. I'm behind
a router and, for instance, have no problem reaching my bank's site for
home banking. Haven't tried Janes suggestion yet.

Regards,

Kai-Uwe
 
Also, if your PC uses a Marvell ethernet controller, go into its properties
panel and disable IPv4 Checksum Offload. This fixed a similar problem for
me.

Jane C said:
Are you behind a router? Does it have an SPI firewall inbuilt? This tip
from Jimmy Brush may solve your browsing problems:

- Click start
- Type: cmd
- Right-click cmd.exe when it appears under Applications
- Click Run As Administrator
- Type the following: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
- Press enter
- Restart your computer


--
Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;)

Pit said:
Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe said:
Hi Folks, [snip]


Can you provide some of that sites to test for me? I haven't
encountered any problems as of yet when it comes to surf-
fing the net, neither with IE nor Frefox.
Click to expand...

www.citibank.com works fine while www.citibank.de times out.
www.mozilla.com, www.google.com don't work either. g.msn.com (that's the
MS download site) has sometimes problems.
The problem is that both IE and Firefox keep searching. Sometimes you
get "transferring data ..." but at the end the transfer always times out.

Pit
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
There is a ton of work to do, but we have known for sometime that MSFT will
not be doing it. They're shipping Vista Half Baked 1.0 and gouging people
pricewise.

www.longhornblogs.com

1) To the best of my knowledge, MSFT uses IE7 in Vista.
2) The connection problem you're having is unrelated to Vista.

CH
 
[snip]
www.citibank.com works fine while www.citibank.de times out.
www.mozilla.com, www.google.com don't work either. g.msn.com (that's the
MS download site) has sometimes problems.
The problem is that both IE and Firefox keep searching. Sometimes you
get "transferring data ..." but at the end the transfer always times out.

Pit
Click to expand...

Pit, except for citibank.de I have no problem. Citibank.de will load fine
under XP, in both, Firefox and IE, but not under Vista. Under Vista, the
title bar of Firefox/IE reads "Citibank Deutrschland", I'm asked whether
I'd like to accept a cookie (Firefox, I configured it to ask), so there must
be some kind connection established. Anyway, Firefox and IE then sit
there, trying to load the site (a couple of minutes as of now that I'm ty-
ping this).

I turned off the phishing filter/protection mode in IE, but to no avail. In-
teresting, but I have no idea what may cause that behaviour. I'm behind
a router and, for instance, have no problem reaching my bank's site for
home banking. Haven't tried Janes suggestion yet.

Regards,

Kai-Uwe
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Its still a Beta OS, most banks will not accept Betas logging on to
them for obvious reasons. WTF are you trying to do home banking with
beta software for anyway? Good job it did not work.

8-)]

Jonah
 
Am 03.09.2006 said:
Are you behind a router? Does it have an SPI firewall inbuilt? This
tip from Jimmy Brush may solve your browsing problems:

- Click start
- Type: cmd
- Right-click cmd.exe when it appears under Applications
- Click Run As Administrator
- Type the following: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
- Press enter
- Restart your computer
Click to expand...

That fixed the problem here.

http://www.citibank.de wasn't reachable from Vista, no matter which
browser I tried (IE, Firefox Beta2, Opera 9.01).

I could open that page from XP running inside Virtual PC 2004 under Vista
Pre-RC1, though.
I filed a bug report on this.

Tom
 
Am 03.09.2006, 15:56 Uhr, schrieb Chad Harris
There is a ton of work to do, but we have known for sometime that MSFT
will
not be doing it. They're shipping Vista Half Baked 1.0 and gouging people
pricewise.

www.longhornblogs.com

1) To the best of my knowledge, MSFT uses IE7 in Vista.
2) The connection problem you're having is unrelated to Vista.
Click to expand...

Sure it's related to Vista. The connection problems only occur in Vista,
no matter which browser I use (IE, Firefox, Opera). None f them would open
www.citibank.de for example.

After doing that "netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled"-tip,
everthing works fine here.

Tom
 
Its still a Beta OS, most banks will not accept Betas logging on to
them for obvious reasons. WTF are you trying to do home banking with
beta software for anyway? Good job it did not work.

8-)]

Jonah
Click to expand...

We're not talking about login-problems.
Those sites are simply not accessable at all, they won't even load.

Tom
 
Ok, maybe my wording was a bit misleading. I didn't
say I'm actually doing homebanking under Vista, but that
I basically /can/ do homebanking (under XP) despite the
fact being behind a router and that I can reach the home-
page of my bank even under Vista.

Interesting though, that citibank.com loads while citibank.de
doesn't. What does that tell us regarding the safety measures
taken by citibank.de but not citibank.com? Well, probably
not too much, but I really don't know, I'm no expert.

Thomas H. said:
Its still a Beta OS, most banks will not accept Betas logging on to
them for obvious reasons. WTF are you trying to do home banking with
beta software for anyway? Good job it did not work.

8-)]

Jonah
Click to expand...

We're not talking about login-problems.
Those sites are simply not accessable at all, they won't even load.

Tom
Click to expand...
 
Chad is correct. It is likely the agent string in IE7. Exactly the same
thing exisits in IE7 for XP.

Am 03.09.2006, 15:56 Uhr, schrieb Chad Harris
There is a ton of work to do, but we have known for sometime that MSFT
will
not be doing it. They're shipping Vista Half Baked 1.0 and gouging people
pricewise.

www.longhornblogs.com

1) To the best of my knowledge, MSFT uses IE7 in Vista.
2) The connection problem you're having is unrelated to Vista.
Click to expand...

Sure it's related to Vista. The connection problems only occur in Vista,
no matter which browser I use (IE, Firefox, Opera). None f them would open
www.citibank.de for example.

After doing that "netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled"-tip,
everthing works fine here.

Tom
 
Jane C said:
Are you behind a router? Does it have an SPI firewall inbuilt? This tip
from Jimmy Brush may solve your browsing problems:

- Click start
- Type: cmd
- Right-click cmd.exe when it appears under Applications
- Click Run As Administrator
- Type the following: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
- Press enter
- Restart your computer


--
Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;)

Pit said:
Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe said:
Hi Folks, [snip]


Can you provide some of that sites to test for me? I haven't
encountered any problems as of yet when it comes to surf-
fing the net, neither with IE nor Frefox.
Click to expand...

www.citibank.com works fine while www.citibank.de times out.
www.mozilla.com, www.google.com don't work either. g.msn.com (that's the
MS download site) has sometimes problems.
The problem is that both IE and Firefox keep searching. Sometimes you
get "transferring data ..." but at the end the transfer always times out.

Pit
Click to expand...
Click to expand...

How would I undo the above mentioned command (Tip from Jimmy Brush)?
 
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