I just went through two days of the same problem and I was ready to bring my
new PC desktop back to the Office Depot store! But after calling every
manufacturer, from the PC to the wireless router, I went back to the PC
(Gateway) and they figured it out (love that I talk to a person in SD and not
India!). It was McAfee Antivirus software that conflicted somehow with the
browser. If you have it, delete it. Then immediately install a different
one, like Symantec, before doing any browsing, chatting, etc. Also
discovered that Vista doesn't like Firefox, so don't try that browser.
Hope this helps.
--
Cheri
"---Fitz---" wrote:
Quote:
> I had the exact same problem last week although it was on an XP machine. I
> tried every fix I knew of to no avail. My last thing to fix was repairing
> the TCP/IP stack. I used an executable named something like
> TCPIPrepair.exe. You can Google and see if you can find it. I do NOT know
> if it will work on Vista. In the alternative, you can try this website:
> http://www.howtonetworking.com/vista/removetcpip.htm or
> http://grdead.ibloggie.com/reset-tcpip-and-winsock/.
>
>
> "The Violet Storm" <TheVioletStorm@xxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:2E7D551F-B348-4464-AEE8-D809C8CCC607@xxxxxx Quote:
> >I thought about doing a firmware upgrade, but wouldnt i do that on the main
> > computer that the router is actually hooked up to?? I did do an upgrade a
> > couple months ago. You dont do that kind of upgrade on the laptop right?
> >
> > I went into the command prompt, ip address for router is 192.168.1.XXX.
> > So
> > I think thats looking ok........
> > There are so many others with this same problem I am noticing, What is up
> > with Vista??
> > "Pbb321" wrote:
> > Quote:
> >>
> >> If you're home or on a network you trust, then private is the setting
> >> you want, otherwise use public.
> >>
> >> You mentioned your router before, although its highly unlikely, visit
> >> your manufacturer's website and see if there is a firmware update for
> >> your router. Although I doubt that this is the problem, nothing really
> >> supprises me anymore.
> >>
> >> Oh, by the way, check to see if your IP address corresponds to your
> >> router. (i.e. 192.168.x.x) if its not in this range or similar, then
> >> there could be a router problem.
> >>
> >> Hope that makes sense, if not, just tell me.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Pbb321
> >>
>
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