check your firewall settings my linksys router is in compable with vista
might have simular problems

"bova80" <bova80@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> OK perhaps someone can help me with this. when at home on a comcast
> cable
> connection connected through a link sys router everything works great.
> but
> now that i am at school all is not so great. at first i thought it was
> because i was behind a netgear router but i am using it as a switch. now
> some webpages load but some do not or in some cases if the address is
> forwarded it will not work. all this worked under windows xp but now does
> not under vista
>
> also i used outlook under xp and was able to get my outside mail which is
> setup with pop access, but now under vista it will not connect. other
> programs have the same problem not connected such as my avg virus software
> and windows media center, can't connect for guide setup. so if someone
> could
> please enlighten me i would appreciate it, i thought it was ipv6 but i
> disabled that and still have the problem. i am confused. an example is
> if i
> want to go to espn.com i simply can't type that, i have to type
> espn.go.com.
> i have a xp laptop on the same network here at school and it works
> perfect,
> just flaws with vista.