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Sleepy
Well I too am having major problems with wireless networking with Vista. I
had an old xp laptop with a Netgear (b) adapter and it worked fine. Now I
have a new Toshiba Satellite with Vista Premium, and I've spent literally
Two Days trying to get it to work! I have a Netgear b wireless router, with
2 XP desktop pc's hardwired in and my laptop wirelessly (internally).
I see there are several wireless networks in my area. Most are secured but
there is one that is close by that is unsecure. I have, after a lot of
problems, been able to connect to that one. But if I try to connect to my
network, it usually doesn't work but if it does, it says Local Only (no
Internet). Or it will say Connected with Limited accessibility.
THe problems I have experienced are numerous. I do know that once I was
'connected' to my network (tho limited access and no internet). Just to try
it, I Disconnected from the network. A few seconds later I went to Connect
To and it said there were no wireless networks in my area! I have around 8
wireless networks in this area. So how can one explain something as simple
as this -- several wireless networks one time, then none a few seconds
later?? I did click on the refresh button several times, but it still said
no wireless networks around. Besides that, several times I Restarted my pc
with no change in connectivity (i.e. none), then one time i rebooted and it
amazingly automatically connected to the interenet (via the other person's
network) on startup. However previous times I had Limited access with that
person's network.
I've read a lot here in the newsgroup. I've tried the Broadcast flag toggle
off/on in the registry. I did make sure workgroup was set to MSHome (like
my other pc's). I've tried Netmagic. I have power cycled my router (more
than once). If it wasn't for this desktop pc, I wouldn't even be able to
access the help in this newsgroup or from MS KB articles.
Would trying a newer wireless router (Linksys WRT54G) solve this problem?
Could it be that my old netgear router is part of the problem? I plan to
try a new router to see if this would solve the problem (I expect the
Broadcast flag in registry may affect this??) but I have doubts that it is
the router that is the problem.
I don't like being attached to someone else's network (tho fortunately I
don't do a lot of internet connection through that network). I would get on
mine immediately -- if I could. But for now that is the only internet
access I have. I feel sorry for people who don't know anything about PCs.
How would they know how to set up a network?! (e.g. workgroup name changed
from MSHOME to WORKGROUP, just to name one of the minor things they wouldn't
know about)
I hope Vista SP1 comes out real soon with fixes to these wireless network
problems. Otherwise this new laptop I bought is just an expensive
paperweight.
Sigh.
Dave
had an old xp laptop with a Netgear (b) adapter and it worked fine. Now I
have a new Toshiba Satellite with Vista Premium, and I've spent literally
Two Days trying to get it to work! I have a Netgear b wireless router, with
2 XP desktop pc's hardwired in and my laptop wirelessly (internally).
I see there are several wireless networks in my area. Most are secured but
there is one that is close by that is unsecure. I have, after a lot of
problems, been able to connect to that one. But if I try to connect to my
network, it usually doesn't work but if it does, it says Local Only (no
Internet). Or it will say Connected with Limited accessibility.
THe problems I have experienced are numerous. I do know that once I was
'connected' to my network (tho limited access and no internet). Just to try
it, I Disconnected from the network. A few seconds later I went to Connect
To and it said there were no wireless networks in my area! I have around 8
wireless networks in this area. So how can one explain something as simple
as this -- several wireless networks one time, then none a few seconds
later?? I did click on the refresh button several times, but it still said
no wireless networks around. Besides that, several times I Restarted my pc
with no change in connectivity (i.e. none), then one time i rebooted and it
amazingly automatically connected to the interenet (via the other person's
network) on startup. However previous times I had Limited access with that
person's network.
I've read a lot here in the newsgroup. I've tried the Broadcast flag toggle
off/on in the registry. I did make sure workgroup was set to MSHome (like
my other pc's). I've tried Netmagic. I have power cycled my router (more
than once). If it wasn't for this desktop pc, I wouldn't even be able to
access the help in this newsgroup or from MS KB articles.
Would trying a newer wireless router (Linksys WRT54G) solve this problem?
Could it be that my old netgear router is part of the problem? I plan to
try a new router to see if this would solve the problem (I expect the
Broadcast flag in registry may affect this??) but I have doubts that it is
the router that is the problem.
I don't like being attached to someone else's network (tho fortunately I
don't do a lot of internet connection through that network). I would get on
mine immediately -- if I could. But for now that is the only internet
access I have. I feel sorry for people who don't know anything about PCs.
How would they know how to set up a network?! (e.g. workgroup name changed
from MSHOME to WORKGROUP, just to name one of the minor things they wouldn't
know about)
I hope Vista SP1 comes out real soon with fixes to these wireless network
problems. Otherwise this new laptop I bought is just an expensive
paperweight.
Sigh.
Dave