Pipboy

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:31:27 -0000, Jon wrote:


> BTW you can drag your local area connection icon from 'Network Connections'
> to your quick launch or desktop, and choose 'create shortcut here'. If you
> then right-click it there's a Disable / Enable option.
>
> I'm not sure how significant the ipv6 showing limited is, if at all. I doubt
> whether the 5 minute startup delay is related to that - could be a faulty
> firewall or other setting on the computer you're networked to.

That's the method I used on XP. In Vista it is all funky for me. First I
had to turn on network discovery to even get the icon,the network
connection icon gave me no option to disable/enable. Funny thing is the
router icon does though. Problem is that if I use that to disable the
connection it takes 5 minutes again to get my connection back. Doing the
same thing in XP is almost instantaneous. One thing I have noticed as to
why it is taking so long to get a connetion is because it is not getting
the correct IP address from the router. After about five minutes it gets
the correct address. This is unacceptable and XP is much better for me. I'm
not spending another 100 bucks on a new router just because Vista's
internet connection has been effed up by Microsoft. My router works
perfectly fine with Win9x. Win2K, XP, Linux, and Xbox 360 even so why the
hell not Vista? This is BS Microsoft.