* Mr. Arnold:
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>> This was posted on the Microsoft Tech Board about issues with Vista
>>
>> "The culprit is the built-in firewall software on the DI-724U router,
>> which features Stateful
>> Packet Inspection (SPI). This is not the only router in the SOHO market
>> that features SPI -
>> Netgear's WGR614 and Linksys' WRT54GS are among dozens of products that
>> offer similar
>> capabilities. Trouble is, the new and improved TCP/IP stack in Windows
>> Vista falls apart when
>> it encounters an SPI-enabled router.
>
> That's ridiculous. Not only am I sitting in a hotel room at a client's site
> that for sure has a SPI FW solution for the hotel's wireless network using
> Vista on the laptop, but I have also taken the laptop to the client's site
> and connected the machine to the LAN and there is FW there too that's using
> SPI. In either case, I have had no problems connecting to any one of them
> with them both using SPI. I also have no problem with SPI on.
In fact, I have been quite pleased overall with
Vista's network stack and internet performance,
even since the betas. I have 3 Vista machines (one wireless),
Windows Home Server and an XBOX360 connected to my router,
and it has performed flawlessly.
However, there was a problem for some routers with the Vista betas
and even when Vista was first released.
The OP can try several different things before he decides to
dump Vista in frustration.
-Michael