bova80

checked the firewall, even disabled it and the vista firewall and still
having the same problem. its just odd that everything works fine on xp but
not on vista with the same exact settings. so its something in vista.

"Jeff_giampetro@hotmail.com" wrote:

> 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.
>
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