Ian Betts

Well for a start it does not happen on mine or any of those I visit to
teach. That said I would not jump to blame the Win system but look at ISP
prob's and router set up problems first.

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Ian

"houstonmat" <houstonmat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A9C3DD70-221B-411D-A61E-1DC3F1379A7B@microsoft.com...
> On two different Vista Home Premium laptops, two different architectures
> and
> laptop models and three different wireless routers I have experienced the
> following issue. After about 15 minutes of being connected, my wireless
> connection drops the Internet connection and becomes 'local access only.'
> Local access is true, because I can stream from my 360, but the laptop
> cannot
> access the internet. Just renewing the IP isn't enough, I have to
> completely
> reset the adapter. A cursory search of the internet shows that this
> happens
> on just about every imaginable platform and hardware configuration out
> there.
>
> What gives, Microsoft? When will this be patched?? I bought this laptop
> for
> my wife so that she *wouldn't* be calling me all day at work to help her,
> yet
> the support calls are through the roof!!
>
> Matt
> houstonmat--at--gmail
>