Nov 22, 2009 VISTA & WIRELESS: HOW TO SOLVE LOCAL. Fine but I cannot not set-up any sort of wireless. FROM SOME FORUM Its all a c-r-a-p shoot. You can try static IP, you can disable IP6v, you can try entering your DNS, you can disable your DHCP broadcast, you can update your drivers, you can restore your computer, you can uninstall/reinstall stuff. Basically what it comes down to is that there is no guranteed fix for any of this. My notebook would come back online local and internet after being in local only for hours for no apparent reason and then just drop off and back into local only for no reason and there was no certain way to get it back online. This goes for both the Wireless and the normal Cat5 wired. Although with it being plugged in to CAT5 i did have more success at it being online after reboots but only 25% of the time. I talked to several computer dealers in town today and they all agreed its a craps shoot for Vista and wireless networking and have been unable to repair alot of the computers that they are seeing. So if you get a chance get a dual XP/Vista machine or just stay XP til MS resolves this issue. Hotfix installed, wireless still going 'unidentified network' and 'local only'. I wonder if, in My Computer [left click] > Properties > Network ID > ' Join a domain or workgroup', the computer should be set to: ' This is a home computer; it's not part of a business network' instead of ' This is a home computer; it's not part of a business network'. Probably made this mistake installing vista on the computer. I t goes back to ' This computer is part of a business network' all the time, even after reboot. Let's keep on trying to solve this. Google Occitan|. Hey there everybody, I'm on the same boat as you occitan. However, I'm an IT Tech for an apartment complex at a state university and we are providing wireless to students who don't have a hard wire connection. They're getting an IP address, but it shows that they have a 'Local Only' connection w/ IP, Subnet,and DNS. I was looking through out Cisco fiber switch and I'm noticing errors on our wireless vlan scrolling '%DHCPD-3-WRITE_ERROR: DHCP could not write bindings to [wireless bridge]' I ran the hot fix on a couple Vista test computers and no luck. Microsoft wants to charge me $245 for something they screwed up in their OS. (Not to mention 300 angry students who can't access the internet). I Hope Microsoft can fix this problem ASAP because I heard alot of other campuses are having the same problem and there is no solid solution. I have the same problem that many vista users are complaning about all over the interweb. I can connect via wired ethernet without any problems at all. The problem is with the wireless access, which is the only reason I bought this new laptop (3 days ago). All my other wireless devices work flawlessy within my network, and can access the internet (windows xp pro, and windows mobile 5.0) using a Linksys WRT54GS. When using my new vista business notebook (LG E500 using Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Adapter), I am able to get connected after doing a few repairs, and reconnections, but the connection doesn't stay connected very long, I just lose the connection and the network goes into the 'local only' state. I`m beginning the hate that 'local only' message now. The most common error I receive is ' Cannot commincate with the Primary DNS Server``, I have no intention of looking at changing any router settings to allow this Laptop access as I will not have access to others routers when I travel, I only have control of my laptop, so we have to find a solution on the client end. I hope windows vista wireless networking is backward compatable with older routers, the thought of not connecting to random hotspots because I`m using Vista would be enough for me to go back to XP. You almost think, that this issue being posted here at MS forums would be enough for MS Experts to take this issue seriously enough to fix, I know may users who have been trying to troubleshoot this problem, when in fact it should be MS employees troubleshootion this major problem. What ever happened to plug and play? Same problem here. Windows Vista Ultimate on a new PC with plenty of RAM and a 5.3 performance index. Hardwired FastE connection to Cisco 2950 which goes to Cisco PIX 501 --> Netopia Cayman ADSL Router --> AT&T Internet (static addressing 6Mb). For no apperant reason, Vista switches to local access only mode. Doesn't matter if I use DHCP or statically define IP info. It is not the network because all the Windows 2003 servers, XP Pro PCs, and Linux work fine. It certainly is not happening on wireless connections only. This PC doesn't even have a wireless NIC. From a command prompt, standard or elevated, I can ping internet hosts both by name and IP address. I can resolve the names of the sites that I can't connect to with either Internet Explorer or Firefox. It almost seems as though the problem is related to the way Vista handles http/https traffic, and not necessarily total internet connectivity. Does anyone know what criteria Vista uses to evaluate whether or not it can connect to the internet? If we could manually troubleshoot that process, step by step, we coulld probably figure this out. Otherwise, I think we'll just have to wait on MS to fix this. Hey Everybody, It's been a month and still nothing. I called up Microsoft support, (866) 234-6020, and filed a 'complaint' regarding ALL Vista Based OS (Basic to Ultimate). I gave them the link to this forum. Hopefully we'll get some kind of response from Microsoft. If you want to take the time, call that number and do the same thing I did. It doesn't cost anything. Hopefully enough complaints will get to them to actually do something about this rather than have millions of people wait on 'SP1' to be released. I had the same 'Local only' access problems with my Vista Home Premium, but it is now working fine after several days of trying various things including suggestions in this forum thread. The problem started for me when I uninstalled Norton Security 2007 to install a competitor's product. I got tired of Norton Internet Security's flaky issues with Vista, like LiveUpdate failing to download updated virus defs. I used 'Programs and Features' from the Control Panel to uninstall Norton IS, which seemed to go smoothly--I saw no errors, and when I returned to Programs and Features, the product was removed from the list. However, after installing the competitor product (a top pick in Sept 2007's Consumer Reports), I was locked into 'Local only' access for both my wireless and wired connection. What finally worked was the recommendation 4 days later from the new security vendor's support organization: I have checked the system information log you sent us and found that you still have components of Norton on the computer. This could be the cause of the problem. Kindly run the Norton uninstall to remove the remaining components of it. For the instructions on how to download and run the Norton uninstaller, please click on this link: You need this Norton Removal Tool to fully uninstall the product. I soon as I ran it, my connection went back to 'Local and Internet.' Hope this might help some in this forum who had the same issue due to a firewall/security product that perhaps they tried to uninstall or remove but registry entries and other traces of the product still left hooks in Vista that prevented the system from connecting to the internet. I'm pretty sure I have the same problem as you. When I get this, it happens after about an hour or two of being connected to the internet, and then I just loose the connection. There appears to be a connection for me, but I can't get out. I get this same problem with different connection types (Wireless, and also a PCS Card). Something I found on another board seemed to work for me. Go to Windows Update. Click on 'Check For New Updates'. When it fails, keep clicking it. After about 10 tries or so, the network mystically comes back. I know this doesn't solve the problem, but it keeps me from having to reboot! 'So unfair: I tried to connect to a router (with a Toshiba TX) with Vista Home premium: it worked!: Local & Internet. I tried to connect to the same router (with a Sony vaio FZ) with Vista Ultimate: Local access only. Where is the bug? During the Vista Ultimate setup process, I remember having stupidly chosen the 'this is a business computer' parameter, instead of setting it as a ' home computer'. Now, even after reboot, the changes do not apply if I set it to 'home computer'. When I reinstall a fresh copy of Vista (erasing partitions), the OS doesn't ask me to choose anymore. How come? Shall we wait for the Vista SP1? I am thinking that this is a feature of IPv6 and not actually a problem. If you are inside a business network, you will be using proxies to access outside content so local only is not a problem. If you chose you are on a business network because you thought it would give you features, well more fool you, I am sorry to say. (I had to say it, forgive me!) The next time you get local only, try this: Open the 'Netowrk and Sharing Center' Click on Customize next to your network In the 'Set Network Location' dialog box, click on 'Merge or delete network locations' In the 'Merge of Delete Network Locations' box, look for a network location with the status 'not in use'. Delete that network location by highlighting it and clicking the delete button. Close dialog boxes. Tell me if your problem goes away (temporarily at least - it will come back again.). I had the same problem with a new notebook installed with win vista home prem. I pretty much tried disabling IPv6 and deleting network connections but still no go. Finally i resolved it using a work around. I opened the network connections and right click on the wireless connection and click properties. In the Wireless connection properties I highlighted ipv4 and clicked properties. Under the general tab, I left it to default settings which is 'Obtain IP address automatically' I clicked on the Alternate Configuration tab and set it to user configured. I set the IP address, subnet, and default gateway manually. I also added Preffered DNS server to the router address and left the rest blank. I clicked on OK and close all the windows and rebooted the computer. After reboot I opened network and sharing center. Access was 'local' for a while then the diagram changed and the red x was removed. Unidentified network was changed to my network name. Then I tested my connection and browsed to a couple of sites and now I can access the internet. Rebooted a couple of times and it still worked. Please try this and see if it resolves the issue. It's just a workaround so it might not work for everyone. Happy hunting! I've spent the last week with this problem. Bought an HP pavilion dv6000 with Vista Home. I connect to my home and any secured network without any problem. I get the 'local access only' when I try to connect to an open network (Starbucks, hotels, airports.). I've tried most of what everyone here's tried (firewall on/off, disabling dhcp broadcast flag, disabling IPv6.) nothing has worked. I've seen some progress made when manually assigning IP addresss and DNS but not always an option when at an airport or other places. My wife's laptop running XP connects without any problems. Any chance that MS would let me exchange Vista for XP.;-). I've tried everything short of reinstalling Vista. This is actually what the tech support from HP suggested. I connect to my home network wirelessly without any problems. I've connected to other companies' wireless networks without any problems. I hit a snag when I try and connect to an open network (hotels, coffee shops, airports.). That's when I get the 'local access only'. I connect to the network and it identifies but just no connection to internet. Same error that many others see 'no DNS'. I'm about ready to plunk down the $59 and call MS directly (but then I think that's about 1/4 of the price of XP, maybe I should just spend it on that instead). The only problem is that Vista came preinstalled on my laptop and MS website says to contact manufacturer. I think they should make an exception in this case. I was very wary of buying this laptop since it came with Vista. Was looking for an XP machine. I wonder if MS would accept an even trade. I'll give them back Vista if they give me XP. Or maybe I'll just throw up my hands, reformat the hard drive and reinstall with Linux. I'm kind of leaning in that direction. Good luck everyone. This morning, I experienced the following behavior: HTTPS access worked. Windows Update worked. VPN to office worked. HTTP to ANY other site would NOT work. Not with Firefox and not with IE Ping would work tracert would work nslookup would work. This is Vista Ultimate, connected BY WIRE to a Linksys router. Checked all router settings (nothing had changed). Rebooted Vista. All connections through VPN worked (outlook got its email), Remote desktop worked. Could access the rest of the internet via remote desktop, but any attempt to directly access with IE/Firefox via HTTP would fail. Now searching web to see if any other people have had similar problems. Vista has been working for over a year; Actually it is pretty close to exactly 1 year - I wonder if some license has expired or something. Vista did not appear to be operating in 'limited behavior' mode. I am getting the same problem with Vista (local network only). It is happening in a domain netwerk at the office. XP and 2003 are working fine, 2 Vista Business workstations are also fine. But two others are haveing problems. When rebooting the connection is ok to local and internet but after a while (a few minutes) it is local network only. I have tried so many options found on the internet. Nothing helps. Is there someone at Microsoft who is (I hope) also reading this forum who can help???? I am running with a Dutch Vista Business on my workstations. Today I had the same problem with a brand new Toshiba notebook for a customer. It works for 10 minutes and then it stops.(local network only). HELP HELP HELP. This appears to be a common problem. I bought my flybook notebook with vista business hoping to be able to connect to the internet in hotels etc whenever I roam but I always get the same prolem. It sees the network but can't identify it. I can connect to my home network only by disconnecting the power supply to the wirless router and restarting it. You can't do this in a hotel! My partner does not have the same problem anywhere running XP. I installed SP1RC hoping it would resolve the problem but it just crashed my system after a reboot and it did not solve the problem anyway. I had to go back to a restore point before SP1 install to get my computer working again. Why does microsoft not sort out this problem. If they want us to spent the money and upgrade!!! The should sort out this problem. This is a microsoft forum so they must read these threads. Has anyone heard from microsoft to say at least they are working on the problem. Please lets get a fix for this or I will have to go back to the Xp OS. This is not a driver thing but try right clicking computer (my computer in xp) then click on properties look on the green and blue area for device manager or search device managaer in the search feild of the start menu anyway when ur in the device manager click the + on network adapters and click on properties for the correct device and go to all tabs until you see an option about turning it off to save power make sure its unticked (checked) then apply or ok it then exit device manager it might work it shuld stop it from going local only after a screensaver, asus nap mode, standby etc. I concur My laptop was purchased in August of this year (‘07) the experience with the laptop is great (Alienware always wanted one), the wireless does not work; has not, will not stay connected under any conditions. I have some input into this as little as it may be, check your network adapter in device manager. I have an Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network card internal to this laptop. Does anyone have an external USB network adapter running with the same problem occurring? I was contemplating buying an external network adapter to see if this would solve the issue, but after looking for one many are of course not compatible with vista What is wrong with this OS? Why was it forced out when it is obvious that it is not ready for release? I tried the last suggestion of turning off the systems ability to turn off the network adapter to save energy to no avail, still not resume a wireless connect (even just local after it resumes out of sleep or hibernate. No one from Microsoft will do anything any faster because of this or any post Microsoft new about this issue how many months ago? They just can’t fix it! Just hurry the ____ up! I hate having a nice new laptop that is not wireless WTF! Tried this step by step but am still unable to connect to the Internet via my Motorola router. No problem connecting to the router but I, too, have the pesky Access: Local Only setting. I followed your suggestions above but do have one question - from where did you obtain the IP address you entered into the Alternate Configuration??? I used the ones I found on my 'wired' desktop computer that is using the same router and internet connection but they did not help. I've had this problem on and off for weeks. Earlier this week, it suddenly started working. It was fine for two days then on the 18th, it downloaded some Windows Vista updates and now I'm back to ground zero. I even tried rolling the system back to 12/15 to see if that would help, but no dice. I've never experienced anything quite as frustrating as this. Gateway wants me to start from scratch and reinstall Windows but I have so much software loaded on that laptop, I really don't want to do that. The BEST tech support has come from Motorola but they, too are stumped. To further complicate things, our internet service is broadcast. The receiver is on the roof, and the connection to the router is just a little tiny box (about 1-1/2' SQUARE) which DOESN'T get plugged into the normal slot (WAN) but rather into a regular network slot. I'd sure appreciate some help from Microsoft on this without having to pay $59 a pop. Connie, Pomona, MO. Michael Kleinpaste wrote: Same problem here. I just bought a Vista system. I am seriously regretting buying Vista. I new I should have bought a Mac. I can't even connect to my own WEP secured network. My wife's Mac connects without a problem!!! Nothing I've done EVEN SETTING THE FREAKING CONNECTION AS PRIVATE WORKS! It still only allows 'local access'. What a piece of $#%! M$ didn't make it more secure. M$ just made it impossible to stay on the Internet. Yes I am wishing my flat mate bought a mac as well. We now are just plugged directly into the cable modem and that seems to work fine but I cannot not set-up any sort of wireless router to get my MAC powerbook hooked up to the internet. It sucks because I need the internet for work. I don't know how many hours i've spent trying to figure out what was wrong. Now after another late night trying countless things and researching I come to find out it was MS 'issue' to begin with. Frankly I think the computer was a waste of $2400. I've got it working. Finally, my new Gateway laptop running Vista Home Premium is connecting to the internet via my Motorola wireless router. We turned it off, rebooted, let it go into sleep mode and wake up - connection is still there. Wish I could tell you what we did that made it work but to be honest, we clicked so many settings, enabled and disabled so many properties and tried a little of everything. Finally we 'repaired' our connection and just like that - the red X went away and we were on line. At least until the next time it happens. Have just purchased an HP notebook with Vista home premium loaded. It only connects local when on wireless. If I connect it via cable it works fine. I tested it in a laptop repair centre and it worked fine on wireless which would indicate that there is a problem with the router / vista combination that I am using. My xp machines work fine on the wireless. Have tried to configure the wireless connection manually but to no effect. Have updated all drivers / software from both Microsoft and HP. Have seen on blogs that the SIP on the router may be causing a problem but can't seem to disable this on the router. Have emailed both Hp and my broadband supplier for help. No useful help on the Microsoft site. Anyone got an answer that works? I feel I've solved the problem. Before I wasn't able to sustain a transfer between computers connected via Linksys router, but last night I transferred 6+ gigs of data and the Vista machine's networking is still working. Over the course of several days, I made only one change at a time, then waited to see if the failure occurred again. I'm an IT networking professional so I based my decisions on my familiarity with network protocols, impact, risk, ease of implementation and fallback positions. These are the steps I took: 1. Installed Teracopy, which takes over the file copying function of Windows. Disabled IPv6 (Control Panel -> Network Connections -> -> Properties) 3. Disabled Link Layer Topology Discovery Mapper and Responder (Control Panel -> Network Connections -> -> Properties) 4. Set Power settings to high performance (Control Panel -> Power Options) and disabled the screensaver (Control Panel -> Personalization -> Screen Saver) 5. Reduced my Linksys router's MTU to 1480 (although I doubt this was part of the solution) 6. Enabled ECN with the following command 'netsh interface tcp set global ecncapability=enabled' from command line (Start -> cmd) Possibly step 6 is all you really need to do. Please post if this works for you. I have never been so frustrated in my entire life. I purchased a laptop for my fiancee for Christmas that's running Vista. It ran fine on our wireless router for a few days, then, like everyone else here, it drops to local only. Sporadically it would work, then stop working, then work, then stop. The entire reason I bought her that laptop was so she could connect to the internet wirelessly. Is Microsoft even paying attention to this? It'd be great to at least get a post here from someone saying they're at least looking INTO the problem. I'm going to have to go home after work today and spend a few more hours working on the bloody thing. Hopefully one of the posts here that I haven't already tried will fix it. I'd hate to have to go out and buy a copy of XP to install on her machine (not because XP is inferior, just because I don't want to dish out another couple of hundred bucks when the program I already purchased should work properly). I had the same problem until today. I talked to a Dell tech support guy and the thing that worked in the end was a System Restore. You go 'Start - Accessories - System Tools - System Restore'. When the window pops up, you choose 'Select a different reference point' (or something like that. It's the one that doesn't say Recommended), then you choose a previous date from the list. Preferably a date when it worked (if ever). Click the Next button a few times, then Finish. A dialog box should pop up saying (' If you do this, it can't be undone. ), just click YES. The computer should restore itself to the specified date ( took me a few minutes) then it should reboot. From there on, it worked for me. I hope this helps others. This is someting that really frosts my cake. When I try to repair the connection (or lack thereof), Vista says it cannot repair, would I like more information. And then tries to connect to the internet and tells me I must have a problem with my DNS server because it cannot connect to Microsoft.com. My problem is that I can't connect to the Internet - don't try to take me to the internet for help. All Vista help files are located online - none are part of the software system itself. If you are working off line or cannot connect, you cannot get help for ANY Mocrosoft Vista based product. I thought I had solved my problem - and indeed, I had. I was reliably connecting, wirelessly, to the wireless settings of my motorolla router both local and internet for about five days and then - voila - local access only. Nothing had changed. No new software installed, router had not been powered on or off, no Vista updates installed, firewall turned off, no Norton, no McAfee, nothing. Looks like I have an expensive portable DVD player and laptop solataire game interface. Wonder what would happen if I reformatted and installed Red Hat? Not sure if my problem is quite the same but, whenever I turn my computer on I have only local access. So I open a shell and use the 'ipconfig /renew' comand and then I can connect the internet no problem. It just seems strange that I have to do this every time, I don't understand why this doesn't just happen automatically. The much more serious problem I uncovered whilst trying to solve this issue is that if I try and change my network configuration to use a fixed ip and 'ok' the changes. My computer totaly locks up then gives me a Stop error (BSOD) I've posted about this issue on another thread. It's a right bummer! Hello to all, I have deliberately replied to the first post in the thread to signify just how long it has taken/ and still is taking for Microsoft to take note and give at least some guidance/ notification that they care about those customers who have invested in their new OS. On their own forums!!!! It all seems incredibly trivial now but I thought i'd put my own twist on things with my horror story. I am currently typing, sitting rather uncomfortably on my desk chair. I'd like to be sitting on my comfy sofa, cup of tea maybe, surfing the internet on my laptop. I cannot do this of course for much the same reason as the numerous other sufferers that have previously posted. The complete annoyance in my case is just how intermittent this ridiculous problem seems to be. Writing this I am using Vista Ultimate, running the internet perfectly (TOUCH WOOD!!!) connected to a belkin wireless router. My housemate is also doing the same with his physical connection, this time using XP home. Other computers also known to share this connection are another desktop running Xp pro and a laptop running Xp home. I recently invested in a laptop purely for the luxury of it and expected, due to the current situation with the rest of the network sharers, that i'd be able to connect to the network no trouble. But of course, this laptop running Vista premium 'won't verify' the connection and will only connect locally. Tried everything within my own knowledge and now trawled through posts who here for help. Still no luck. The silly thing is, I take this laptop round to my girlfriends and, low and behold. IT CONNECTS FINE?!?!?!??! Just what is going on here.Seriously?! When's there going to be answers?!!? Sincerely, Another disgruntled Vista user. Well, my original point was regarding the lack of interest that Microsoft have taken into this issue with Vista. Obviously it is up to an individual person whether they choose to rely on an OS that many would say is not ready for an open market, however in many large retail outlets it does now prove difficult to buy a non- vista PC/ Laptop. I may have been a bit hasty to condem Microsoft but, I have literally gone through every post on this thread, sought after, and tried many fixes to this problem with no luck, and this seems to be the most detailed thread on this rather widely known issue. All the above aside, if you have more help then please elaborate!! I'm still more than willing to try ANYTHING Thanks! This is so not fair!!! Wasting our precious time trying to figure out what is obviously a MICROSOFT DEFECT. Getting aggravated & frustrated & annoyed, so much so, that if this damn laptop didn't cost so much $$$, I swear I would beat the f*** out of it with a sledge hammer. I think that that is probably the only way I'd get any satisfaction from all this BS. We go & spend our $$$ on these computers only to find out that they don't work. WHAT A WASTE OF OUR TIME & OUR $$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So after purchasing, what we think & hope, is a wonderful brand new computer, and probably buying it because we are aggravated and annoyed from our other/older computer(s).we end up finding out that what we really bought was nothing but a headache, a time waster, and an expen$ive, supposedly 'high tech'computer that's greatest asset is to aggravate, frustrate, & annoy us. And remember, we gave our $ for this. So, in essence, we didn't just give our $ away, we purchase DEFECTIVE MERCHANDISE. MICROSOFT SHOULD RECALL ALL COMPUTERS/LAPTOP COMPUTERS WITH VISTA + GIVE US FREE TECH SUPPORT + THE OPTION OF SWITCHING TO WINDOWS XP. THAT WOULD BE FAIR & MAYBE RESTORE SOME OF OUR FAITH IN MICROSOFT. I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE WAY THINGS WORKED WHEN ANY COMPANY MANUFACTURED & SOLD DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS TO THE CONSUMER. SO WHAT DO I/WE DO? SEND LETTERS TO OUR CONGRESSMEN? I THINK THAT THERE IS A GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US=THE CONSUMER. If I do pursue this, I will post, as long as, microsoft doesn't delete it rather than post it. One person with one voice is usually ignored, but THERE IS POWER IN NUMBERS! Well I was having some problems with my Lynksis wireless network adapter and no matter what I did after sleep mode it was not working I tried several things but still could not get the dam thing to work I had to restart the computer to get the thing to recognize it until I did what was suggested in a post here which was to turn off the disable the power to the adapter in the adapter settings when you go to sleep mode. Now all I do is unplug and plug it back in and it works again I still don't know why it doesn't just work without having to do all this *** but I guess as long as it is working I am happy. I feel for those who are having problems still I know the feeling. This is just another system to learn and debug for You know who LOL. I am having the same issues. I have made the registry changes posted here: and that seems to have improved the situation, however: I have also discovered that I have two drivers for my Realtek 8185 based PCI card. The driver which shipped with Vista apparently only fully connects to an access point which is 802.11b only. It hangs at 'identifying network' when trying to connect at an 802.11g access point. When I updated to the current release of the driver, just the opposite occurs. I can connect to G access points, but hang at 'identifying network' when connecting to a B only access point. The details tab of that hung connection shows connected at 54mb. Clearly wrong. Maybe it is a driver issue for me. Appears to not correctly identify the network radio type and connect at the appropriate B or G speed. Anyone know how to force Vista to connect at only 802.11b or only 802.11g. This would help me troubleshoot this further. Replying to myself with some potential solutions.frankly I'm getting tired of the complaining going on in this thread rather than hearing about solutions. Everything was working well for about a month and then suddenly I had the original problem again. During transfer of large folders from a WinXP machine to the Vista machine, networking pretty much shuts down on the Vista machine. I can't ping anything on the local network, and sometimes I can't even reboot the machine to fix the problem. It gets stuck on the logging off screen and I have to hit the reset button. So, I've tried a few more things and seem to have stabilized it again. Using static IP instead of DHCP (Control Panel -> Network Connections -> -> Properties -> IPv4) 8. Disabled TCP auto-tuning with command 'netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled) 9. Disabled TCP receive-side scaling state with command 'netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled) interesting articles here: (this article recommends disabling receive-side scaling in a certain situation) (REALLY interesting. I've tried all these techniques and they *might* be working. This article is called ' When you copy large files to or from earlier operating systems, the copy operation may be slower than expected on some Windows Vista-based computers'. Reading the complaining may be tiresome but please understand that it is done only after trying many if not all of the 'solutions' offered by other participants in this formum. AND - the rare occasions when Vista does allow local and internet access over a wireless connection are so unpredictable that it is impossible to say - I solved the problem doing such and such, as we really don't know WHAT solved the problem, just as we don't know exactly the circumstances in the problem reoccuring. On my end, I can drive to town and connect quickly in the parking lot of the local hotel, or go to any of the coffee shops, etc. That offer WIFI. I just can't connect in my own home. This past weekend, I swapped out my Motorolla router in favor of a Linksys router. I rolled my laptop back to the factory settings, (which means I have to reinstall all my software - bummer), tried statip IP, instead of DHCP, disabled TCP auto-tuning as you suggest above, disabled TCP receive-side scaling, as stated above, and am still unable to get on line. I simply don't know what else to do (other than reformatting and installing XP) so I complain. Human nature I guess. Connie Schachel in Pomona, Missouri (ya'all welcome to come by and take a crack at it!!!). Same HERE Connie. I just have to complain because AFTER 4 DAYS OF TRYING TO FIND A SOLUTION, of course using a friend's computer SINCE I CANNOT ACCESS THE D*MN INTERNET ON MINE - BTW using my friend's computer ON MY OWN ISP, which of course DOES NOT WORK ON VISTA. I had to format to LINUX - I WILL NEVER USE A MICROSOFT OS AGAIN, F*CK MICROSOFT. You'd THINK the supposed #1 OS system would have a fix for NOT BEING ABLE TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET! But nope, IN FACT,MICROSOFTS POS UPDATE was the cause of it for me. And the STUPID A*S UPDATE WAS AUTOMATIC / WITHOUT MY EVEN APPROVING, DIE MICROSOFT, DIE. I had the same problem spent hours on the phone with different tech supports my cp is a vista home premium built by acer finally i got fed up and called acer customer support wanting vista removed and xp installed the girl that i spoke to was the one that finally helped fix my problem. RESET OPERATING SYSTEM TO FACTORY DEFAULTS-When system reboots turn off automatic updates. For u people that installed vista yourself reinstall and turn off automatic updates. And yes turn off norton firewall. PS i will let uyou know if connection fails again. I have formatted several computers on vista and i have found out that wireless networking and norton do NOT get on especially OEM versions of norton, i installed norton retail on 1 pc got all updates and everything and works fine!, when i install OEM on it and get all updates, for some reason when i clean up my computer using, evidence eliminator, cleanup!,ATF Cleaner, after computer restarts it wont connect no more. I have done the same cleaning process on another machine but retail version of norton installed and after restart it works fine! Weird, also i can confirm on the OEM system after uninstalling norton it works fine, then when i install it again, it works fine, seems to not work with OEM especially if you use the same cleaning tools as me weird but i no what the problem is now, its just trying to fix it anyone doing anything similar to me at all with the oem like deleting temp using programs? What i can say is DONT else it will like.' Trip' norton OEM. I have a new Dell XPS M1530 laptop with Vista and have been experiencing *precisely* this problem - upon resume from sleep or hibernation, Vista will not detect the gateway address for the network. One thing that works *sometimes* is to open a Vista Command Prompt and manually release and renew your computer's IP address. If you want to try this, do the following steps: 1. Press 'Winkey' + R 2. Type 'CMD' and click 'OK'. A Vista Command Prompt should appear. Type 'ipconfig /release wireless*' and hit. After #3 completes, type 'ipconfig /renew wireless*' and hit 5. Note the wireless icon in the system tray; if the small 'globe' artifact appears between the computers, your gateway has been detected. I have installed the KB article that pertains precisely to this problem and it did *not* help. On this *same* machine, which now dual-boots with XP, XP connects to the network each and every time *perfectly* Gotta love this 'new and improved' OS. Thank heavens for XP. Ok my solution for me that works 100%, non of these stupid answers or comments is: for me installing OEM version of symantec is fine on vista, getting updates is fine, but i DONT use any cleaning software except vista disk clean up, this solution for me works 100% installing symantec RETAIL for me has no effect what so ever even when i use third party cleaning software. So my conclusion for me that works 100% is that OEM symantec software has got problems when you install it on vista AND you use third party cleaning software. SO if you have any symantec software on your machine and vista on, I.E you got a dell or compaq etc and it came with OEM version on it pre-installed. To fix this problem totally uninstall it of the system, download and run symrnt? One thing i must add to my previous comment is that people who want to maintane vista in a good working order, get your self some basic maintance tools to keep it in tip top shape and error free, i use the following for cleaning up: Cleanup! ATF Cleaner Evidence Eliminator and i use the following to fix errors and maintain the registry: Amust Registry Cleaner Max Registry Cleaner Tune Up utilities and i use Diskeeper to defragment The Local Access Error I CAN fix, and HAVE fixed! Any people that want to chat to me or want to find out more give me a shout il be more then happy to help. Fixing the OP problem should not be dependent upon installing half-a-dozen 'tuning and maintenance' products. Microsoft has already acknowledged that this problem exists, and has attempted to solve at least one source of the problem through the knowledgebase article described earlier. Unfortunately, that did not solve the problem for me in my installation of Vista. There are apparently multiple causes of this problem, some of which may or may not stem from interaction with certain antivirus products. The greater frustration for me is that this problem is prevalent enough that its escapes me how it could have escaped pre-release testing. Wireless networks are hardly new anymore, and bringing a laptop out of sleep or hibernation is hardly a technological innovation. XP doesn't exhibit this problem when installed on *precisely* the same hardware. I'm sure that's a byproduct of the fact that Microsoft has entirely rewritten the IP stack for Vista. As it appears that MS has not been able to resolve this issue, one possible solution (which, admittedly, is rather drastic) is to roll your machine back to XP. My understanding is that every Vista license includes an implicit 'downgrade' license to a corresponding version of XP. I have a laptop with a dual-boot configuration of Vista and XP, with the Vista 'version' exhibiting precisely the behavior described in this thread. Conversely, when booted under XP and resumed from either sleep or hibernation, gateway information is *never* lost and connectivity is restored normally. For anyone on this thread who has found this problem untractable under Vista, and found no resolution, moving back to XP is at least an option to consider. Absolutely David! Wi-fi connection in this day and age is paramount for any mobile person. It should have worked correctly out of the box without exception. This is a serious oversight on their part and the entire QA department should be fired for this release. The fact that people still defend this product, is proof that Microsoft has taught people to accept mediocrity. They should have taken the money they spent on marketing and pumped it into development and testing! I would have preferred a 'ho hum' campaign than the B$ parade they put on. 'Where's your WOW?' It's certainly not here. Absolutely David! Wi-fi connection in this day and age is paramount for any mobile person. It should have worked correctly out of the box without exception. This is a serious oversight on their part and the entire QA department should be fired for this release. The fact that people still defend this product, is proof that Microsoft has taught people to accept mediocrity. They should have taken the money they spent on marketing and pumped it into development and testing! I would have preferred a 'ho hum' campaign than the B$ parade they put on. 'Where's your WOW?' It's certainly not here. 'You've come to a sad realization. Cancel or Allow?' Michael, I think MS has a three-fold problem with Vista. First, it's a commercial failure. For all the spin they put on it, you'll never make be believe it is as successful as MS, in its deep, dark meeting rooms, wanted and needed it to be. Yes, they trump how many million copies are in the wild, but we all know the biggest percentage are those bought through OEM's that don't have much of an alternative - and at least two manufacturers are thumbing their nose at MS by continuing to offer some flavor of XP alternative (Dell and NEC). Second, MS doesn't know what to *do* about the first problem, and it has them in a catch-22. Do you fix the problems that seem to be imperiling its success, or do you fast-foward to the next iteration of the same product and hope it catches fire? It looks for all the world like SP1 is really just the kind of basic refinement MS should have put on the product before it was released. Third, how does a company who's throwing $46B at Yahoo plan to manage and fix a desktop OS product that seems to have so many basic problems, particularly in the networking space? This sleep/hibernation issue isn't the only networking problem Vista has; go browse a few thousand threads about Vista's file transfer performance for some epithets that will REALLY give you a warm glow. I don't know that MS really appreciates just how much frustration Vista is inducing. Sorry, I'm wandering off topic.But sometimes I get the feeling if Vista were a ship, if I ran to the bridge I'd find no captain. There's no direction. In my opnion, Vista has to succeed - and succeed soon - or else you will see Windows 7 accelerated to market faster, and arguably more recklessly, than any other OS in Microsoft's history. I guess that's why that previous post about 'install these basic maintenance tools.(blah blah blah)' really irritated me. There has to be an expectation that Microsoft can fix basic functionality in its operating system. Considering this thread has been open for close to six months, I guess perhaps that expectation is increasingly unrealistic. It is to boggle the mind. Meanwhile, the rest of us here on this thread are still wondering if MS can figure out how to bring a laptop out of hibernation and back onto a network.MS, are you listening? I converted to Mac almost 5 years ago when I learned that it's subsystem is Unix. I did a 1 1/2 years research before making the jump. Now that I've seen how an OS should operate it's frustrating as heck dealing with the failings of M$ products. I see it every day and Vista literally P!ss3s me off repeatedly every day. While in the 4+ years that I've had my Powerbook I've had only 1 OS problem where a patch disabled the 'Airport' wireless card. The patch was out the next day and fixed it right up. I have NEVER had that kind of a satisfactory experience with any Windows iteration. How I wish people wouldn't post here unless the post is relavant to the issue. Everytime I get a forum alert my hopes go up that a solution is pending and then it's just somebody grinding an old ax or comparing operating systems. The problem being discussed here is Vista Operating System setting wireless network access to Local Only, thus making it impossible to connect to the Internet. If you don't have something to share that might solve the problem, take your MAC vs PC, Windows vs Linux discussions private. If I sound pissy, I am today. Who ever in their right mind designed computer towers with all the weight at the top? Who thought it was a good idea to put USB ports at the BACK? I am so sick and tired of being on all fours trying to get 'removeable' (that's a joke) USB devices plugged in, dragging this tower in and out from under the desk, having it fall off it's trolly and on to it's side that I could spit. Ok this is what you need to do, uninstall any antivirus AND firewall, restart your pc, does it seem to connect now again with the globe? Afterwards reinstall all your antivirus and firewall and get all updates. This works 100% tested it and done on 3 machines and 5 for my friends as well works fine so far. All it is asking for is 20mins of your time to uninstall any antivirus and firewall then restart and reinstall it and get updates. This works 100% and is a FIX ( if you have any antivirus and firewall software installed) untill microsoft release a patch. DO NOT change any setting in your networking like unticking ip6 etc. Keep everything ALL the same. H2Hax wrote: ok this is what you need to do, uninstall any antivirus AND firewall, restart your pc, does it seem to connect now again with the globe? Afterwards reinstall all your antivirus and firewall and get all updates. This works 100% tested it and done on 3 machines and 5 for my friends as well works fine so far. All it is asking for is 20mins of your time to uninstall any antivirus and firewall then restart and reinstall it and get updates. This works 100% and is a FIX ( if you have any antivirus and firewall software installed) untill microsoft release a patch. DO NOT change any setting in your networking like unticking ip6 etc. Keep everything ALL the same. Just to add,this works for WIRELESS and ETHERNET! I had the same issue for the past 3 days. I tried disabling ipv6, DHCP Broadcast, enabling/disabling the NIC, changing network type to Private from Public in Network and Sharing Center, etc. It seemed everytime I changed to Private it would end up back at Public. Here's what I did to resolve it: 1. Go to System Control Panel 2. Under 'Computer name, domain, and workgroup setting' select 'Change Settings' 3. The system will prompt you for the network type: Home, Business and Public 4. Select Home My system immediately connected to my network and everything has been kosher since. Hope this helps somebody out there. Restart Vista Firewall (There may be some errors in the above terminology, because it is my translation from the Finnish GUI.) So in my case HP laptop Vista Firewall is blocking DHCP-requests. I can also specifically see from the security event log, that firewall is blocking packets related to ports 67 and 68, which are used by DHCP. I have my laptop in a domain environment and I get my firewall rules from the group policy, so I have only limited control over the firewall. I should study more carefully firewall rules from the group policy editor, when I have more time for this. However at this point there seems to be some strange issues with the firewall: •. Boy and Girls its official - Wireless & internet access on home laptop!!!! I've been cabled off my router (deskbound) since last yr, occasioanlly wasting a nights efforts attempting to get wireless working. Last night I did the following: Installed SP1 for Vista (leave running for a good hour or so!) Applied the three other updates that were available after I did the SP removed IPv6 from my wirless network card properties Disabled DHCP assigning on my wirless router Manually set: IP S/n Mask Default G/W Also manually set dns servers AS my ISP DNS servers. I also use WEP security. Once I completed this I setup a wiress connection for internet and bobs your uncle I was surfin USA! Thought I'd share what worked with me for you guys, hoping it works for someone else. HAPPY EASTER! I have my doubts that this is a Norton problem. I was using Microsoft OneCare and I had the same problem. I got sick and tired of OneCare hosing up my system, and uninstalled it followed up by the OneCare cleanup utility. After that, I had to recover to find my CD/DVD drives, but that's another story. I tested without any security software other than the builtin firewall, and the problem presisted. Now I have Norton 360, and although I still get local access only on my wireless, at least I have decent security protection. I've been lugging around a 50 foot CAT5e cable for when I need to get on the Internet. Ah, the joy of mobility. P.s., After having Vista Ultimate for 14 months, with one month on SP1, I'm still using XP Pro as my production OS. Thank God I've found this thread. My sister just received a Dell Inspiron laptop with Vista Home Premium with the intention of going wireless, but the damn thing is stuck on 'Local' access only! The router is brand new from BT Home Hub and 'Vista compatible'. Spent several hours between BT support, removing programs, installing drivers and finally a complete reformat. It seems the only thing Vista is good at is quick reinstalls! It's a real pity Dell stopped supplying XP. The laptop did pick up a neighbouring router and managed to connect intermittently. Often it was local access, but occasionally provided 'local and internet'. So I guess Vista is refusing to cooperate with the BT router, however BT don't want anything to do with this and I'm on my own in searching for an answer. Vista is an utter sham. Vista sucks - but have a solution which worked for me on an HP Pavillion: Load Vista Service Pack 1 (available on the Microsoft web site) Disconnect wireless network Get into your network settings via the control panel. Uncheck IPv6 Go to propreties of IPv4 Select use IP address Enter in IP address of router, for the last numerics insert a different number, e.g. If router access address is 12.0.0.2 enter 12.0.0.20 as the IP address, submask will auto fill (if have other computers accessing router use 21, 22, 23 etc) DNS - enter your servie provider's addresses Restart wireless connection and hopefully you now no longer have Local Access only In essence it appears as if Vista does not 'autodetect' IP addresses Good luck. I just receive my laptop about 1 week ago and I too am having the same problem with Vista and wireless connection 'Locall access only'. (should have read you post before I purchased the system) I am reading the posts and though I applaud you all on the suggestions on how to fix this problem, I think that it is very unfair that we the customers have to figure out the problem. WE PURCHASE A PRODUCT, WE SPEND OUR HARD EARN MONEY,SO IT SHOULD BE A GOOD PRODUCT THAT WORKS, NOT ONE THAT YOU HAVE TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO. THIS IS RIDICULOUS THAT WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THE PROBLEM. I don't know about you all but I am no computer expert, so I don't believe that I should have to deal with this problem or have to pay a computer technician extra to figure out the problem and they still can't figure it out. So I am still stuck with a sytem that I can't use. I think that it is about time that Dell deal with this problem. If they can't address the problem, I will say like someone else posted, this product should be recalled and we shoud all get a refund to purchase a good system that works.This is just too ridiclious and they should be mindful of the number of disgruntled customers. Havoke wrote: I concur My laptop was purchased in August of this year (‘07) the experience with the laptop is great (Alienware always wanted one), the wireless does not work; has not, will not stay connected under any conditions. I have some input into this as little as it may be, check your network adapter in device manager. I have an Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network card internal to this laptop. Does anyone have an external USB network adapter running with the same problem occurring? I was contemplating buying an external network adapter to see if this would solve the issue, but after looking for one many are of course not compatible with vista What is wrong with this OS? Why was it forced out when it is obvious that it is not ready for release? I tried the last suggestion of turning off the systems ability to turn off the network adapter to save energy to no avail, still not resume a wireless connect (even just local after it resumes out of sleep or hibernate. No one from Microsoft will do anything any faster because of this or any post Microsoft new about this issue how many months ago? They just can’t fix it! Just hurry the ____ up! I hate having a nice new laptop that is not wireless WTF! I recently purchased a laptop with the same network adapter you have and after about a week of pulling my hair out, being angry at anything and everything I have the exact same problem that the rest of you have described. Havoke, after not getting anywhere with the internal network adapter, the same one you have ( Intel Pro Wireless 3945abg), I did hook up and external network adapter ( linksys) and it didn'y change a thing. Still got 'local only' So if it helps, don't spend money on one. Some of the changes I tried to make were disabling the Intel adapter, but when I did that it took all the SSID's with it. I went as far as walking around the house trying to see if it would change and it actually did change to 'local and Internet' for about 10 seconds. I thought I had something there, but the unfortunate thing was I was walking down a stairway when it hooked up. I've literally wasted a week playing with this garbage and dont plan on doing it anymore. How do you delete VISTA anyway, if a person wanted to do that and install Windows XP. Seems like the best fix, unless Billy and his Brain Trust, figure out a fix, real soon. Instead of wasting all this time again, I was thinking of taking a week and setting up a 'class action lawsuit' Someone said there's alot of money up there in Redmond. Havoke wrote: I concur My laptop was purchased in August of this year (‘07) the experience with the laptop is great (Alienware always wanted one), the wireless does not work; has not, will not stay connected under any conditions. I have some input into this as little as it may be, check your network adapter in device manager. I have an Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network card internal to this laptop. Does anyone have an external USB network adapter running with the same problem occurring? I was contemplating buying an external network adapter to see if this would solve the issue, but after looking for one many are of course not compatible with vista What is wrong with this OS? Why was it forced out when it is obvious that it is not ready for release? I tried the last suggestion of turning off the systems ability to turn off the network adapter to save energy to no avail, still not resume a wireless connect (even just local after it resumes out of sleep or hibernate. No one from Microsoft will do anything any faster because of this or any post Microsoft new about this issue how many months ago? They just can’t fix it! Just hurry the ____ up! I hate having a nice new laptop that is not wireless WTF! I recently purchased a laptop with the same network adapter you have and after about a week of pulling my hair out, being angry at anything and everything I have the exact same problem that the rest of you have described. Havoke, after not getting anywhere with the internal network adapter, the same one you have ( Intel Pro Wireless 3945abg), I did hook up and external network adapter ( linksys) and it didn'y change a thing. Still got 'local only' So if it helps, don't spend money on one. Some of the changes I tried to make were disabling the Intel adapter, but when I did that it took all the SSID's with it. I went as far as walking around the house trying to see if it would change and it actually did change to 'local and Internet' for about 10 seconds. I thought I had something there, but the unfortunate thing was I was walking down a stairway when it hooked up. I've literally wasted a week playing with this garbage and dont plan on doing it anymore. How do you delete VISTA anyway, if a person wanted to do that and install Windows XP. Seems like the best fix, unless Billy and his Brain Trust, figure out a fix, real soon. Instead of wasting all this time again, I was thinking of taking a week and setting up a 'class action lawsuit' Someone said there's alot of money up there in Redmond. Wince the Wiking wrote: I tried for 4 days before i solved it. I had a home network setup that was working fine until I installed an update form Norton. I used the removal tool found here to get rid of it. Everything works fine now, I just dont have any anti-viruis software. I'm a firm believer that when you get all this AntiVirus Software that somes bundled with an Operating System, that continually pops up at every start, and takes hours to uninstall, and then you have to take a survey of why youre uninstalling it, theres gonna be trouble. Norton is garbage. If you want a great antivirus free software, try 'AVAST' Just google it and you get the address. It's free for six months, then just renew it again for free. Wince the Wiking wrote: I tried for 4 days before i solved it. I had a home network setup that was working fine until I installed an update form Norton. I used the removal tool found here to get rid of it. Everything works fine now, I just dont have any anti-viruis software. I'm a firm believer that when you get all this AntiVirus Software that somes bundled with an Operating System, that continually pops up at every start, and takes hours to uninstall, and then you have to take a survey of why youre uninstalling it, theres gonna be trouble. Norton is garbage. If you want a great antivirus free software, try 'AVAST' Just google it and you get the address. It's free for six months, then just renew it again for free. Wince the Wiking wrote: I tried for 4 days before i solved it. I had a home network setup that was working fine until I installed an update form Norton. I used the removal tool found here to get rid of it. Everything works fine now, I just dont have any anti-viruis software. I'm a firm believer that when you get all this AntiVirus Software that somes bundled with an Operating System, that continually pops up at every start, and takes hours to uninstall, and then you have to take a survey of why youre uninstalling it, theres gonna be trouble. Norton is garbage. If you want a great antivirus free software, try 'AVAST' Just google it and you get the address. It's free for six months, then just renew it again for free. Hello all, I have fixed this problem on a couple of my companies PC's running Vista SP1. Only found this solution yesterday so I don't know if it will hold up. I was reading an article that told me to create a new registry entry called DhcpConnEnableBcastFlag (it's linked a few pages back in this thread). This didn't fix the problem but when I checked to see if my entry was still there after reboot, I noticed another item called DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag. I set this to 0 for my wireless adapter and hey presto - I'm getting the correct Subnet mask and IP address (I was getting a wrong subnet mask and an IP address for a totally different subnet before). In regedit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services Tcpip Parameters Interfaces (your wireless network adapter) Set DWORD DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag to 0 No idea how to tell which one is your wireless adapter so I just set this value to zero for all adapters (as wireless is the only one that will get used). Don't know why or how it worked or if it causes any other problems but it did work. As soon as I did this, it popped up a window asking if the network is private or public. Now I get a correct IP address from my router and access to internet is ok. Hope this helps someone out there!! Thanks to all for posting and sharing your info regarding this issue. This thread is the best and most informative so far what I've found on the net. I'm experiencing similar problem. I'm running Vista SP1, my wireless internet connection drops to local only every minute. What I've done: 1. I disabled the encription on the router - didn't help 2. I applied a manual fix in the registry - didn't help 3. I disabled TCP/IP v6 - didn't help 4. I uninstalled/installed SP1 - didn't help I borrowed another laptop and was able to connect to my router without any problems. The connection was stable. So there is a problem with my laptop running Vista. What I've noticed. If I take a file from another computer and copy it over the network into my laptop then I surf internet for 2 hours non-stop. I reboot my laptop. I have a problem. The connection drops every minute to local only. And then gets established to local and internet. I do copy a file over the network - and I'm able to surf internet for 1 hour. It seems to me somethings gets blocked and copying the file triggers an event which resolves the problem with intermittent internet connection. I have a SONY VAIO latop running Vista SP1. Your input is appreciated. I had the local access only problem suddenly appear on my PC today, and spent approx 4 hours before identifying the issue. First of all, let me point out that in my case it was over a wired ethernet connection, not wireless, but I believe the issue may apply equally to all, so here goes. My PC had been working fine, but I left it on over the last 24 hours. When i got back from work, I woke it up from it's suspended state, and it wouldn't connect to the internet anymore. After spending lots of time using my other PC to find possible causes, I read that when Vista awakens from sleep/suspend, it may not be able to recover the network adapters. So, the solution was: 1. Go to device manager -> network adaptors -> right click on each 'properties', go to 'power management' tab, and uncheck the box that allows windows to control the power state for each interface. Hard power down the machine (Hold power button until machine stops - usually about 7 seconds before windows reacts, then about 2 more for the machine to stop dead) 3. Unplug and switch the machine off for long enough for any capacitors to drain (I waited about 15 seconds) 4. Power back up, selecting the start windows normally option For the record, the machine in question was running Vista Home Premium SP1 64bit Hope that helps some of you. Any resolution to this problem MS guys? This is really frustrating. Every one hour or so the internet connection on my Vista Ultimate (recently installed) laptop drops - funny thing is sometimes it keeps on showing 'Local and Internet' yet isn't able to browse internet and sometimes it shows Local Only. Tried most of the options on this forum. Nothing seems to be working. Can someone from MS please give a definite solution to this? It is surprising to see there are so many threads on this topic and yet there is not a solution to this problem. Also please do not tell me I have to upgrade my router because I installed vista. That is just ridiculous. I just got a Linksys G wireless router 4 days ago to go with my HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop with Vista Ultimate installed and with no sucess. However I did manage to see Local and Internet only once, for 10 seconds, the longest time ive ever been on wireless. Ive tried some of the suggested ways in solving this, Vista SP1 - 64 bit OS, Updating Router Drivers, Changing channels, deactivating and reactivate IPv4 and IPv6, giving it different securities keys WPA, WEP. Ive tried router changes, G - only, B - only, and Mixed, renewing my IP Address, specifically puting in my IP Address, Subnet Mask and DNS. Also, does anyone know if your able to hook up a wireless router on top of an currently existing ethernet router? This is currently how I have it. DSL -----> Linksys Ethernet Router ------> Linksys Wireless Router ----> Laptop Any suggestions will be appreciated. In Adress to 's post. The Ideal wireless setup shld be this way. ISP/DSL>>> Modem>>>Wireless Router>>>>NB(Note Book) Now There are some routers in the market which have a built in modem. Now As far as your wireless issue is concerned, it has been a major issue and acause of uproar with vista users. There are a copule of things that I would like you to check first. Which wireless card u have in the NB? Check in device manager. If your wireless card is detected under network adapters. And if there is any unidentified devices with yellow mark. Check if your wireless button in the front is blue. Coz, DV 6000s are known to have this issue. Specially NBs manufactured with IntelPro and BroadCom Wireless Cards. I can tell you this coz, I am an Hewlett Packerd Employee. So If u see the card not to be there, immidiately call your support line. Coz Its definately HW issue. If That Seems to Be OK, Then Your Problem is one of the vista Issues that Millions across the globe are facing. I had the 'Access Local Only' problem on my system too. Now here are a few things u can try after instaling and uninstalling every things. Go to the Link. Check the product num P/N No. From the bottom of your NB. Select Vista in the nxt page. Update the network drivers, chipset drivers, and BIOS(Pls follow the instructions carefully for this). Then keep your router in B & G mode. If you have a Statis IP, Disable IP V6. Select B&G in the wireless card properties too. Make sure the Chnnel Number in your wireless card properties and router page are the same. Preferrably 6,9 or 11. Make sure the MAC Filtering is disabled.( Do this by hooking up with cable) IF nnothing works, then since your Nb is brand New, You can try doing a complete recovery on your NB. You will have to press F11 at startup. Select advanced options >>> system recovery>>>Next. Let Me knw if you require any thing else. Thanks Shad0wFax, actually I forgot too include my Webstar Modem after the DSL. Anyway my HP looks fine it was actually my Static DNS setup up on my router. I did do all those thing by the way, which I think helped. I got my NB Local and Internet. This works: DSL >>> Modem >>> Wireless Router >>> NB PC Only thing is, I cant leave it like this because of the other computer are not wireless and need the ethernet router. Is there anyway I can run my wireless through the ethenet router? Or is there a device that can make 2 hookups to my modem without going through a lan router? Has anyone ever tried it before, im just trying to extend the reach of my wireless service and locate my wireless router somewhere accesible. Im able to get Local only when running throught the other router. DSL --- Modem ---- Ethernet Router ---- Wireless ---- NB But needless to say I'm able to get online thanks. So i had the problem but i worked out a solution with first making the wired connection and wireless connection working seperately Go to the manage network connections and see that none of the two wireless or wired adapter is being shared then select both these and rightclick and select bridge connections Your internet will start to work on your laptop but onemore advice set the ip of the network wireless adapter in desktop pc as 192.168.0.1(before bridging) and let the it be automatic in your laptop. This will connect the network fast. I have seen this problem on several laptops at several locations with different configurations. When you first initiate a 'new' connection with the network adapter Vista asks if the this home, work or public and if you chose Home or work, then it labels as safe and connects to internet. I am writing on a laptop that I restored factory settings and still couldn't connect untill I went to another location and connected to their network and I got the question of what type of netwrok, I chose Work (Private) and it connected without any issues. There has to be a way in Visat to change the LOCAL ONLY to LOCAL AND INTERNET. Does anyone knows how to change that or maybe reinitiate the wizard where Visat asks to what kind of network is this? I replied to another thread on how I finally got my Vista 64 to connect to my wireless successfully. This was a solution for me, hopefully it would work with someone else too. I recently just purchased a new HP Pavilion notebook with Vista 64 installed and had problems connecting to my home wireless network with a Linksys WRT54G. I got many errors, including 'wireless association failed due to an unknown reason', problem still exists, etc., and then sometimes would connect but only be local access and/or limited connectivity. After much researching, here are some things I tried after reading many solutions: Updated driver for my Broadcom adapater Updated firmware for my router Tried to set static IP address Disabled the Norton *** that was preinstalled Made exceptions to my Windows Firewall for anything networking and routing related Edited my registry according to this Microsoft solution: But, ultimately the thing that worked was to set my router to only broadcast in G, and I changed it to broadcast in channel 11 from channel 6. It may have been a combination of things I previously tried or just the simple thing of changing it to G-only and changing the channel. At least it works. *fingers crossed*. I am going to try this suggestion in the registry from a few entries back in this forum. In regedit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services Tcpip Parameters Interfaces (your wireless network adapter). Set DWORD DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag to 0 I am reading this and other forums hoping the problem was with a Linksys router, but it appears all brands of routers are affected. Both wired and wireless have the same 'Access: Local Only' problem, so it is nothing to do with being B+G, B only or G only WiFi. I know XP with SP2 didn't work with WEP, so I am using WPA-2 (which didn't help) and now WPA. The possible solution, as was also stated in this forum a few entries back is to be able to clear all stored settings re connections and start again (without reinstalling Vista). Yes, the latest patches are installed - through a neighbouring unsecured WiFi network - yet this same Vista laptop won't connect to required (and business owned) Linksys router wired or wirelessly!!! Of course the other XP machines in the office all connect flawlessly through WiFi to the same router. A search in Google for the words 'vista access local only' shows this issue goes back more than 6 months, yet I am surprised that Microsoft has not responded properly with a solution. Shame on you Micro$oft!!! A small business should not have to upgrade all it WiFi's (and wired) access points just because the one new PC is running on Vista. I am a self-employed IT contractor, and struggling to keep my house away from the bank. This has cost me 3 working days which I cannot afford - and I wont be able to charge my client. If any lawyer is thinking of a class action suite, please count me in. Skris88 email: [email protected]. I've got same problem, DELL LATITUDE 120L, VISTA ULTIMATE SP1, BROADCOM 802.11 card, & Belkin 54g router, however last night i manage to connect it to the internet by trying different solution provided by this thread. Things that i've done: 1. Check my antivirus firewall if its blocking my wireless connection(I found it sets to INBOUND ONLY, change it to FULLY ALLOWED) 2. Check windows firewall is not blocking it as well. I used static ip rather than dynamic, cause when i type IPCONFIG /ALL under dynamic it shows that my wireless ip is out of range on my router ip addresses, that's the reason why it can't connect on it. That's why i set it to static. I disable the ethernet connection. 4. Remove other network connection available on my laptop. CONNECTION SUCCESS! It can detect my WLAN straight on without any problem. I turn off my wireless card and off for several times and found no more problem. I turned off my computer and on again and it connect on my WLAN straight away. The only problem is its quite a bit slow, but the connection never drops. Does anyone knows what i've missing? That makes my connection slows down? Any help i appreciate. I think i finally solve my problem. After configuring my pc to static address, and configure my router not to broadcast DHCP(manual assigning of ip on each device) which later i've faced problem on my other wifi enabled device aside from having slow connection. My final decision, reset my router to factory default and change all of my wifi enabled device including my laptop to AUTOMATICALLY OBTAINED IP but leave all of MS Hotfix settings that i modified untouch at the end my connection are perfect and everything are back to normal like i'm using my old pc under windows xp. By the way i set different name on each network adapter. Hope this experience of mine help others facing difficulties on wireless network using VISTA. Thanks to all! Right here i'am again, back to drawing board because my machine respond weird again. But this time definitely things will work forever for me. I found out that my wifi card(broadcom) is not properly working. I test a usb wireless, works perfect! I borrowed my friends laptop wifi card, brilliant response! Solution, need to change my wifi card. Bought a new one pre-n MIMO, waiting to be deliver. I'll let everyone knows what will happen next. Definitely i'm really surfing in lightning speed. ABOVE and BEYOND. CAUSE: The presence of a firewall, in my case ZoneAlarm. SOLUTION: Totally uninstall the custom firewall, turn the Windows Vista Firewall on. Solved the problem. QUIRKS: The red 'X' still shows up (Local Only) once in a while between 'Network Name' and 'Internet', but has no effect on connectivity. The name of the network changes (oh brother!) from the actual name, to linksys, to unknown network randomly (!). ANTI VIRUS: Avast anti virus present and working fine. ANALYSIS: It is 3rd party security tools which cause this. Uninstall 3rd party security tools one by one until the internet conn. Works without interruption. The key to this 'solution' is the phrase, 'in my case.' I'm glad your solution worked for you but in MY case, I am not running a third party firewall. I have stripped my OS down to the basic Windows Vista Home with no other software installed, not even an anti-virus. I cannot connect to the internet using the wireless capabilities of my brand new laptop. Vista happily connects to my router but stops there, giving me local acess only. We've installed and uninstalled THREE diferent routers, two G series and one N series and it's made zero difference. I am so frustrated as the sole purpose of purchasing the laptop was to be able to get on line wirelessly. At least laptop prices have dropped to the point where I've thrown away $500 instead of $1500. And I cuda bought a MAC. Just to add another case to this issue. The problem arose when I installed SP1 for Vista. Firstly I disabled my VMWARE adapters and that seemed to solve the issue but only for 10 mins. I tried several of the suggestions in the thread but none seemed to work. Although manually entering the IPv4 settings almost did the trick. But I had no dns servers available, and using OpenDNS didn't work. I solved the problem permanently - I hope - by uninstalling ZoneAlarm and enabling the Windows Firewall. I then reinstalled ZoneAlarm and my Wireless Internet connection still works!! I use AVG Antivirus and Ad-aware but they weren't causing any problems. The wireless router is D-Link 624+ Good luck to all of you trying to cope with this annoying error;-) Personally I think M$ should have responded with patches much sooner than they have.or haven't yet?? CrystalChic wrote: WHAT A WASTE OF OUR TIME & OUR $$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So after purchasing, what we think & hope, is a wonderful brand new computer, and probably buying it because we are aggravated and annoyed from our other/older computer(s).we end up finding out that what we really bought was nothing but a headache, a time waster, and an expen$ive, supposedly 'high tech'computer that's greatest asset is to aggravate, frustrate, & annoy us. And remember, we gave our $ for this. So, in essence, we didn't just give our $ away, we purchase DEFECTIVE MERCHANDISE. MICROSOFT SHOULD RECALL ALL COMPUTERS/LAPTOP COMPUTERS WITH VISTA + GIVE US FREE TECH SUPPORT + THE OPTION OF SWITCHING TO WINDOWS XP. THAT WOULD BE FAIR & MAYBE RESTORE SOME OF OUR FAITH IN MICROSOFT. I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE WAY THINGS WORKED WHEN ANY COMPANY MANUFACTURED & SOLD DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS TO THE CONSUMER. I'm using a Gateway ML-3109, 2g ram, Vista Home Basic and a Realtek 8185 wireless adapter. The wireless driver that shipped with the laptop has been updated now I think 5x with 'upgrades' from Windows update. None of the new drivers have solved the problem of poor wireless connection speeds, random connection drops, losing the wireless connection when awakening from 'sleep' and poor signal strength readings even 3' from the router! I went so far as upgrading the router firmware to dd-wrt so that I could overclock the router and crank up the router's transmitter output. VISTA really stinks! While Realtek may be partially responsible for the buggy drivers I've had so many other VISTA challenges that I am ready to wipe all my vista machines (1 desktop and 4 laptops) in favor of Debian. Can't afford to buy six new Apples unless I sell my car. Almost to that point. July 20th update: After upgrading my Linksys wrt54gs firmware to dd-wrt v.24, my ML-3109 laptop's realtek 8185 wireless connection does seem to be more stable but still fails after the computer goes to sleep. I have tweaked the power management settings in device manager to no avail. When the laptop awakens, the wireless connection is there for about 15 seconds then is dropped. 'Repair' doesn't work. I should not have to reboot the PC. The whole idea of 'sleep' is for the darn thing to wake up in the exact same state as when it dozed off. A little off topic but still Microsoft - since the dd-wrt upgrade my son reports his xbox 360 has to be re-configured now evertime he turns the xbox off and back on again. It doesn't remember settings. I know, I know - different forum. It's just annoying that an IT professional such as myself has to spend the better part of his days off trying to keep his mostly Microsoft home network afloat. Good thing the kids aren't in school right now and there are no school projects looming. Finally got my Son to go for a dual boot XP-Kanotix installation. His previous XP install had become seriously infected it was unsalvageable. Yeah Microsoft! Another lost customer! I had the same problem as everyone. The fault is not with your router, anti virus program, or windows well sort of not. The reason why you are having connection problems is that your ethernet port doesn't have drivers which will allow it to work on vista. It took me quite some time to figure this out. If you cant find vista compatible driver than you can do one of two things. Buy a pci ethernet Lan card that is vista compatible or buy a motherboard that has vista compatible Lan drivers. The latter is much more expensive. I hope I helped you out. Jkmatt wrote: I had the same problem as everyone. The fault is not with your router, anti virus program, or windows well sort of not. The reason why you are having connection problems is that your ethernet port doesn't have drivers which will allow it to work on vista. It took me quite some time to figure this out. If you cant find vista compatible driver than you can do one of two things. Buy a pci ethernet Lan card that is vista compatible or buy a motherboard that has vista compatible Lan drivers. The latter is much more expensive. I hope I helped you out. Thanks for the suggestion. Which route did you end up going? ANOTHER SOLUTION: OK, After having the same problem myself with wireless access only on a brand new laptop with Vista installed. I had tried every suggestion in this thread and more to no avail I installed hotfixes etc. Still dident work. Here is what eventually did work for me: In my wireless routers setting menu - the one you can access by typing the modems IP address into the browser (It will show you what the IP number to enter is in the routers manual, if you are unsure) Anyway.There was an option to 'Restore Default Settings' I was reluctant to try it as Ihadent changed anything and dident think it would have any effect but figured there was nothing whatsoever to lose so I did and low and behold I am now back online again after being on a limitied/local only connection for 6 weeks. I spent countless hours on the phone to tech support and over 100 hours trying to sort this problem, I realise that it seems one solution isent the same for us all, but hope this at least helps someone else. Enjoy the access while you have it. It won't last long. I have a brand new laptop with Vista Home installed. It will connect Local and Internet for days at a time and then, for no reason at all, simply stop connecting. I still turn it on, every day, hoping it will start to work again and eventually it will - for a while but I know as I know my own name that it won't last for long. What really toasts my bread is that I can get in my car, drive down the highway and sit outside a local hotel and connect to their internet connection just fine. I'm now on my third router - a Lynksys this time - but the problem continues. My husband also connects to our internet service via the wireless router and he has no problems what-so-ever. Of course, he's on a MAC, not a PC. I think that's the final solution to this vexing problem. Connie Schachel - online by virtue of having yet a third computer hardwired into the wireless router. Well it's been running fine for a week now - fingers crossed. But if it happens to go *** up again, I'm glad I now know the steps to perform to get me back online again. Before performing this simple step. I had literally tried everything, static IP, disabling IPV4/6, ipconfig renew, system restore, driver- re installation, disabling network security, SP1 update.The list go's on. Like I say, it won't be everyones solution, as they all tend to respond to different remedies which makes this problem even more annoying to diagnose than it already is - but it's certainly worth performing as it only takes a second and it's often the simple things that get over looked in the midst of re-installing windows.etc. I am not sure whether the hard reset button at the back of the router performs the same reset as the one that is accessible via the IP configuration page, so it may be best to use the IP method to 'restore default settings' as appose to just pressing the reset button on the back of the router. When setting the router to none encryption nor authentication i can connect to the router, but i get the Local Access only error. I've been reading this thread from post 1 to the last and tried all the given possible solutions. Nothing works for me. Ive been trying all of the channels i can set, none works. Even in some channels he cannot even find the network. And sometimes he is trying to connect and after 2 minutes it says this is taking longer then normal, to not even connect at all. Try again a few times and it works.•. When setting the router to WPA Security, i cannot even connect to my router. It prompts me for my passkey, i give the correct key and after trying to connect, it prompts again for the correct passkey. That goes on infinitly. Trying to analyse the problem and find the cause. After reading this thread im starting to get the feeling the problem is (ofcourse Windows Vista but im happy with it for the parts that do work, for instance DirectX 10) the combination between Vista and the Intel Pro/Wireless network card (a collegue tried to connect to my router with a Vista laptop and that looks to work fine. He only tried to connect to the router with WPA though). So my conclusion of that could be, its not my router or the settings in my router. I updated the drivers of my Wireless card and fully updated Vista including SP1, still the problems occur. I never encountered a problem which i couldnt solve, this is starting to look more and more to become the first one. I didnt buy my NB to always have to get a wire from my switch to my laptop. Im starting to consider downgrading to XP which always is my last resort. Please Microsoft, come with a solution for this. To many hours have been spent in this one. Kind regards, Guido. Well im noot totallt regreting my new system. Cause i do love my new dell 1525 but i am wishing i could have had xp insatalled instead of vista. The last dell i had,just a year younger than this one running xp, and i never had to plug it into anything or plug anything into it! All i did was turn it on and and go to my network and man i signal like you you would not belive. But not here i guess. So now im going to purchace a pocket router for 39.99 i guess thats the only way ill be able to leave the house on a budget. Oh well, other wise i ike vista its fast and kinda cool. And if i ever dont like it i think i could alwayd down grade. But not for 700.00. Pocket router unless you live in the sticks i hear thats the way to go. ITProf wrote: I had the same 'Local only' access problems with my Vista Home Premium, but it is now working fine after several days of trying various things including suggestions in this forum thread. The problem started for me when I uninstalled Norton Security 2007 to install a competitor's product. I got tired of Norton Internet Security's flaky issues with Vista, like LiveUpdate failing to download updated virus defs. I used 'Programs and Features' from the Control Panel to uninstall Norton IS, which seemed to go smoothly--I saw no errors, and when I returned to Programs and Features, the product was removed from the list. However, after installing the competitor product (a top pick in Sept 2007's Consumer Reports), I was locked into 'Local only' access for both my wireless and wired connection. What finally worked was the recommendation 4 days later from the new security vendor's support organization: I have checked the system information log you sent us and found that you still have components of Norton on the computer. This could be the cause of the problem. Kindly run the Norton uninstall to remove the remaining components of it. For the instructions on how to download and run the Norton uninstaller, please click on this link: You need this Norton Removal Tool to fully uninstall the product. I soon as I ran it, my connection went back to 'Local and Internet.' Hope this might help some in this forum who had the same issue due to a firewall/security product that perhaps they tried to uninstall or remove but registry entries and other traces of the product still left hooks in Vista that prevented the system from connecting to the internet. --ITProf Do this!! I ran this on a brand new laptop that had, what I thought, no Norton software on it, and apparently there was something that was clogging the pipes. I ran the removal tool, and everything is working now! I've also had this problem and I hope Microsoft are working to fix this bug! I've had one laptop running Vista Home Premium for around 4 months with no issues (much to my surprise), but another laptop delivered last week connected wirelessly to my home network for a couple of days and then abruptly stopped and nothing could shift it from the old 'local access only' connection. Connecting to a wired network at my office also would only yield local access - though bizarrely every now and then I'd get full Internet connection without actually doing anything. I went through every suggestion from numerous forums, updated drivers, disabled ipv6, plugged in IP settings, disabled firewalls and most of the other security etc etc all to no avail. Then one day I downloaded Mandriva Linux One to a CD, popped that in the troublesome laptop and rebooted. Within SECONDS of Mandriva Linux booting up it connected effortlessly to my wireless network and has done ever since. So, since MS seem incapable of solving this particular problem I'm solving it myself by taking Vista OFF all my computers and switching to Linux. Scrubs121 wrote: ANOTHER SOLUTION: OK, After having the same problem myself with wireless access only on a brand new laptop with Vista installed. I had tried every suggestion in this thread and more to no avail I installed hotfixes etc. Still dident work. Here is what eventually did work for me: In my wireless routers setting menu - the one you can access by typing the modems IP address into the browser (It will show you what the IP number to enter is in the routers manual, if you are unsure) Anyway.There was an option to 'Restore Default Settings' I was reluctant to try it as Ihadent changed anything and dident think it would have any effect but figured there was nothing whatsoever to lose so I did and low and behold I am now back online again after being on a limitied/local only connection for 6 weeks. I spent countless hours on the phone to tech support and over 100 hours trying to sort this problem, I realise that it seems one solution isent the same for us all, but hope this at least helps someone else. I struggled with the local access only -problem for several days, ever since I moved and got my self a brand new Siemens SE551 WLAN router. I also tried every trick in this theard, however stupid it sounded, to no avail. Then, on another thread, someone had changed network topology and solved the problem. Some other thread talked about incompatible DHCP servers in WLAN routers. These got me thinking. I have an old HP ProCurve Access Point 420. I took that out of the box, set it up by connecting its LAN port to the Siemens router with a crossover cable and disabled the WLAN in the Siemens box. All the seurity and encryption settings were copied over from Siemens box and all my clients could connect to the HP box. Then I set up a DHCP server on my Windows 2003 Server and again, disabled DHCP in the Siemens box. Now the Siemens only acts as a router/firewall and doesn't provide any other services. Ever since my Vista have had stable Internet connection and all my VPN connections work as well. I think Vista has some issues with newer WLAN AP's. Just a hunch though Hena. Got a Dell laptopp 'half a years ago' with Vista. Using the wireless at home or internet cafe never hap a problem. Until~ I tried to use it in an University wireless net work (free access to everyone and no limit.) Same old story: XP all worked fine what so ever. Start looking for a solution on the web. After spending hours, and days, and weeks, months, trying all the suggestions. May I ask all of us look around here if any got the your problem solved? What I am surprised about is that, this post with the issues has passed it's anniversary here, look at date of the first post! (Congratulations?) OK don't tell me I am supposed to do something with the routers belong to school to make it work. It's not even funny anymore. I have been battling this issue on and off for 18 months on my Dell Latitude 820. This happens on several networks, I have changed routers and various fixes posted here and on the internet. I am at my wits end and ready to throw this 8 pound brick against the wall. There are other people with the identical hardware SKU and OS and configuration that are able to connect without issue to the same wireless access point. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. There has to be someone from Microsoft that knows what this issue is and how to resolve. I have just moved out from home, to a mates place. I used to have a Netgear router + Netgear wireless cards in 3 PC's at my house and had no problems connecting with Windows 98/XP and Vista 32bit+64bit. Never any problems at all. My mate has a Belkin 54g and I set my stuff up, got the WEP key and added a profile into my wireless Netgear card and the connection started up with local only. I have ESET smart security which came up with a new network was found and I believe I was asked if I wanted to accept the connection etc which I would have said yes to. Still cannot get from Local only to Local and internet. This is really starting to bug me now as before at home I never had a problem connecting wirelessly to any of the Netgear routers that I have had in the past nor the one that's there now. I will be going home after work today to see if some of the suggestions here work (or atleast the ones I hadn't already tried anyways) I for some reason have a feeling it's to do with the firewall but I may be totally wrong as I have disabled the firewall and had no luck with that. Advice very much welcome! MetaSamim, MAC filtering is a security feature of your router. Turning it on allows only MAC addresses in a list manually put into your router to connect to it. Apparently whatever network adapter you were using was not in the list, so now that you have disabled MAC filtering anyone will be able to connect to your router (if its wireless) unless you also use WEP or some other encryption. WHAT WORKED FOR ME: I tried all the suggestions here. I was able to connect to the Internet via Ethernet through my router, but not wirelessly. After struggling for almost a day (off & on) I noticed the MAC address for my wireless adapter was wrong when I opened the command prompt & did an ipconfig /all - it was all zeros except for the last pair of characters. After searching through the adapter settings, driver details, etc., I stumbled across a wonderful,amazing FREE little program called 'MAC Address Changer' available at Luckily for me I use MAC filtering in my router so I knew what the address was supposed to be. I changed it & it didn't work, but then I went back & clicked on 'Enable DHCP', rebooted & am now surfing successfully. Perhaps it was a combination of disabling IPv6 & the wrong MAC addy, plus I've always used static IP's; I'm not sure. If anyone has questions about specific settings feel free to reply. Hope this helps someone! Product Description »DESIGN CERTIFIED FOR COMPLIANCE WITH SAE J2788« Mastercool USA introduces its new ARCTIC COMMANDER line of RRR machines. Equipped with the latest technology, all models come standard with an 8” color touch screen command center. The graphic interface will enable navigation through all of the functions and features with the greatest of ease. There is no longer a need to read any external instructions or paper manuals, simply sit back and watch as the information is played on the color command center. The Arctic Commander series of machines incorporate a powerful windows based tablet, making database and software upgrades a breeze. 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