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| Thread ID: 106309 | 2010-01-04 05:33:00 | Your success with wireless. | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 845554 | 2010-01-04 10:45:00 | Now I am on wired connection, it is much better. It is a wireless thing. Modem is fine. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 845555 | 2010-01-04 10:47:00 | You aren't running Vista by any chance? I have an old D-Link DSL 604T at home that I have had for years, never had any problems with it until I bought a netbook recently which had Vista Home Basic on it.... and the problems started. I think I now have it resolved after loading two service packs, new drivers for the Wifi card in the netbook, editing the registry in several places to resolve DHCP faults, turning off Link Layer Topology features and IPV6 plus several other fixes including some in the command line... Apparently the entire TCP/IP stack and protocols etc were rewritten for Vista, and maybe whoever did it did so the day prior to release after a monster night on the turps.... and never tested it. It certainly looks that way to me. Laptops and desktops running XP and even Win 2000 have all run flawlessly at home, this machine of mine with Vista is the only one that has had problems, it also wouldn't connect to a lot of public Wifi points or the ones at my work. Google wireless problems in Vista and you will get hundreds of thousands of hits. MS still haven't fixed it properly either, many users have either reverted to XP or gone to Windows 7 (the wireless implementation in this is far better). Pity is that in every other way this is a really nice netbook. I suspect I got it so cheap for the spec cos it had Vista on it |
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| 845556 | 2010-01-04 10:53:00 | WinXP Pro. Well I can make the wifi cards in ad-hoc mode and share internet. Or dangle a network cable via the 2 windows. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 845557 | 2010-01-04 18:26:00 | My money still says try an alternative router, even a loan one for a few days... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 845558 | 2010-01-04 18:30:00 | crawled under the house and wired it up dead easy to do and have never had a problem, didn't even consider wireless | gary67 (56) | ||
| 845559 | 2010-01-04 19:02:00 | crawled under the house and wired it up dead easy to do and have never had a problem, didn't even consider wireless Nothing wrong with doing it the hard way! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 845560 | 2010-01-04 20:18:00 | On my second wireless router, first one was a belkin that I never had any problems with. Moved to a airport extreme N about 2 and a half years ago. Thats currently running 3 computers, ipod touch, apple tv wirelessly. and a desktop PS3 and Wii wired. That only gets rebooted if there is a firmware update or if I go away for the weekend. | plod (107) | ||
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