houstonmat

What OS do you teach on?

I have had nearly a dozen XP laptops connected to my router(s) and never an
issue whatsoever. Simultaneously I will have my work laptop (XP) and this
laptop (or its predecessor, both Vista Home Prem) connected, and the Vista
laptop drops the connection after a few minutes while the XP machines have no
problems. I have a business class connection for which I pay a lot of $$. I
know it's not my ISP, and I know it's not my router (or the other two routers
I tried).


"Ian Betts" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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
> >
>