For some reason or another, not only do websites download at a speed that is quite slower than my old computer, when I attempt to download a file it is even slower (sometimes less than 1KB/second). It’s getting rather irritating.

Okay, I’m not sure all of the stuff I need to tell you, but I can tell you that I do NOT have McAffe (I have AVG), nor do I have any sort of phishing filter turned on at the moment. I have tried that whole autotuning thing, as well as some others I can’t recall at the moment. If it helps, my network card is an "Intel 82566DC Gigabit Platform LAN Connect." I know that it isn’t my network because my other computer, which uses Windows XP, works completely fine on the same network.

STOP THE INSANITY!

Please?

Here’s the issue I am having. A web site doesn’t store cookie on vista machine with ie7 but does with ie6 and XP. Anyone know why this is and if there is a fix for it?

Hello, I am new to the board, so hi to all members.

I am having a little issue which I hope someone can help with. I am running a Vista ult 64bit box, directly connected to a Cable Modem for internet access. This is via the onboard NIC. I have a second NIC installed which is connected to an XP box. Vista seems to run fine on its own, but sometimes when I boot up the 2nd XP pc, during the boot up process and when XP is requesting its IP address, it can cause Vista to give errors such as "A generic host process has failed and been closed. Sometimes Aero gets messed up and I get a look which is similar to "Safe mode" for task bar, IE grey with old "Start" button. A reboot clears the issue but XP does not get its ip and sometimes shows as cable not connected when it is.

I have got a fairly fresh install of Vista, less than a month old and the XP install is brand new.

Specs:

Vista Box:
c2d e6750
Asus p5nesli
4gb ddr 2 667
8800 gts
realtek separate NIC rtl8139

XP

Acer Aspire rc500
2.80 ghz pent 4
2gb ram
sep realtek rlt 8139 nic and onboard tried

hi all, i have vista troubles and would appreciate your help. i’ll put up all the info:

i just installed vista home premium 64 (OEM) on a new gaming system. i can access my local network normally (file copies, etc), but i can’t access web pages (thru IE or firefox). oddly, i can connect to the steam gaming services, ie log into steam, update games, even join net games. after i do that, the tray icon shows "local and internet", where it was "local only" before.

the addresses are the 10.0.0.xx kind.

i’ve tried the diagnose function, but no help there. the rest of the systems on the network (wired and wireless) can get on the net, they are all XP systems. my firewall is off, net security is on medium (lowest setting on the slider). i’ve tried disabling net 6.0, no luck. tried the vista update but it wouldn’t connect. my nvidia network drivers are the latest.

i’ve tried restarting the routers and my system a few times, tried disconnecting the ADSL access (to isp) and reconnecting, tried ipconfig /release/renew. release returned "that operation requires elevation".. or whatever…

my network goes like so:

phoneline on wall
to
ADSL router (alcatel speedtouch pro) - DNS and DHCP srvrs running here
to
d-link DI-524 airplus-g
to
- 3 wireless xp lappys
- 1 xp desktop
- my vista desktop (wired)

ipconfig shows that it’s found the correct gateway - the 10.0.0.xx address of the speedtouch.

i noticed an odd route in the speedtouch’s route table:

Destination Source Gateway
default 10.0.0.25/0 [our isp assigned net address]

25 is the local address of my machine… no other systems on the network have routes in the table matching this one.

(if it’s at all relevant…)
my system specs are:
VISTA home premium 64, straight off the CD
EVGA nforce680i (with dual gigabit lan - tried each port, same results)
EVGA GTX8800
4GB crucial ballistix ram
2x WD 400gb - raid 0
intel Q6600 quad
ASUS 1814BLT lightscribe DVD (currently causing BSODs after win logo when booting… hard to update the firmware when it won’t even boot!!)

so yeah… seems like something to do with vista’s setup, since i can access steam! i’m at the edge of my knowledge here, any suggestions?

Two things, whenever I attempt to enter Network and Sharing center it usually comes up blank for awhile, and then eventually (maybe 5 or 10 minutes) the information will show up but I can’t select anything and there’s no way to exit the window and it just remains on my taskbar unless I restart.

Also, the system tray icon in the bottom right corner always shows disconnected (even when I am) and also if I right click takes a few minutes before responding to my click, all during this time my being able to use my computer freely but eventually the menu will pop up. If I hover over this icon it just says:

Connection status: unknown

Server execution failed

But, I am connected to my wireless network and can access the internet etc.

I’m not sure if this is related, but Windows Update always comes up with an update for Microsoft SQL Server Service Pack 2 or something, and I’m pretty sure that it never successfully installs, because it says that it does, but every time I ‘Search for new updates’ it’s still there.

Thanks for the help, this isn’t usually a big problem but I’m trying to alter some of my network stuff and it’s becoming a huge pain and I can’t do a single thing with it. Thanks a lot!

Hello well we are trying to setup our first Vista Machine on our network
server is Server 2003 No Domain its just setup as a Workgroup, the Vista machine obtains an IP from the Router and can access the internet BUT it cant see any of the other machines in the workgroup when I start the network assistant it says it will now search for network components and nothing ever happens, I can ping other machines from it and can ping it from other machines its just not showing up in the workgroup, firewall is turned off
any suggestions would be appreciated
David

i have a dell inspiron E1505, vista

i am using a usb 2.0 wired netork adapter to hook up to my xbox

it looks like this:

xbox 360<crossover cable>laptop<ethernet cable>wall

how can i get my laptop to give the internet connection to my 360
because it says local only for my Local Area Connection 2

My laptop runs Vista and my PC is on XP. I have set up sharing on my Documents in my PC and also the printer it is hooked to. I have a wireless connection with the router set up as an access point. The wireless connection is configured to see shared documents and printers.

In spite of this I can’t see any PC documents on the laptop and I can not see or access the printer.

Any one have an idea how to fix this?

Thanks.

Just within the past day or two I’ve started having some odd behavior I can’t seem to fix. On this vista install some of my DNS requests have started to run slow. I first noticed it in Firefox when I would get the "Looking up www…" message for an extended period of time in the status bar. Usually takes at least 10 seconds to resolve where ever it is I’m trying to get to. IE also is taking more time than usual just like Firefox.

I tried to ping my destination (lets just use google as the example) and the following happened. If I do a ‘ping google.com’, the name is resolved and I immediately get replies. If I do a ‘ping www.google.com’, its sits for almost 10 seconds then comes back with the resolved ip address and replies. Any address I try and ping follows suite… if I prefix ‘www’ it hangs for the 10 seconds and then works. Without the ‘www’ it works immediately. In my browser, I get similar behavior. If I go to an address with ‘www’ prefixed, it does "Looking up…" for a period of time. Without the ‘www’, it immediately go to the page.

The only thing I can find that may be causing or related to this is the firewall. If I turn off vista’s firewall everything works fine. When the firewall is on I get the problem. I’ve been unsuccessful in finding what the firewall may be blocking.

Within the past few days the only thing I’ve done out of the ordinary is setup a vpn connection to some destination. I used it and deleted it when I was done. Other than that, nothing of mention really’s been changed lately.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Hi guys,

Im having a real big problem connecting to the internet atm with my pc. Ive got a belkin wireless adapter pci card FDB7000 or woteva its called. Its a version 6, it wont work with my vista home premium 32bit.

After checkin on website I downloaded new drivers and even ranklin drivers but still it will not find a network connection, its really starting to piss me off!!

Ive tried a wireless usb card Ive got to, but dont have drivers for it, vista recognises it as a MARVEL wireless adapter V.1.0.1.2 but have no drivers.

Im really starting to get annoyed with vista now as I cant get on internet with new PC, I can see now y alot of ppl were annoyed about vista compatability problems

Any ideas?