Hi,
I rebooted and waited until now to try again. I'm still experiencing the
same behavior.
For example, I can access my iGoogle home page and MSN.com (although most of
the content on the page is broken or missing) but I cannot access
CodePlex.com or Microsoft.com at all.
Vista currently reports no problems with my internet connection.
Does anybody have any idea of how to solve this, aside from rolling back
SP1?
Thanks,
Dave
"Dave Sexton" <dave@xxxxxx_remove_this_sexton.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> After installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 I lost my internet
> connection. I kept trying to open various websites in Internet Explorer
> and eventually I was able to download partial, sometimes even complete web
> pages, although IE wasn't displaying them, presumably because various
> resources on the page weren't downloaded yet (I used View Source in the
> empty browser window to see what it had downloaded up until that point and
> in most cases it was only half of a web page). Some sites began to work
> all of the time, such as Google.com, while other sites didn't work at all,
> like Microsoft.com.
>
> I persisted to keep trying to connect to various web sites, assuming that
> it was just a major coincidence that my network connection was failing at
> the same exact time that I installed SP1, but after several hours now I'm
> still having the same exact problem and some research has turned up that
> I'm certainly not the only person to experience internet connection issues
> due to having installed SP1.
>
> I've tried the following:
>
> 1. Browse to my Linksys Broadband Firewall Router configuration site (by
> entering the router I.P. address into IE)
> 2. Sometimes I could connect to the router in IE, although typically I
> couldn't. And once connected, anytime I clicked a link to view a
> different admin page I would get "Page cannot be displayed". Try again,
> and the page would download.
> 3. In a command window, ping various websites. Sometimes I would get a
> reply and sometimes I wouldn't. The problem seemed to occur
> intermittently, even when I tried the same website multiple times. (e.g.,
> google.com, microsoft.com, et al.).
> 4. Release and renew my external I.P. address using the Linksys Status
> page.
> 5. Disable my Local Area Network connection and then re-enable it. (Note
> that it's not a wireless connection.)
> 6. Unplug both my Linksys and my cable modem, wait 15 to 20 seconds, and
> plug them back in.
> 7. Check that my Linksys has the latest firmware installed.
> 8. Open the LAN connection properties dialog and click the Diagnose
> button. Sometimes it wouldn't find anything wrong and other times it
> would. If it offered a suggestion to fix the problem (e.g., reset the
> adapter, tell me to unplug it, et al.), I would use it.
> 9. Open the Vista connection manager (the one with the simple diagram of
> my network topology) and see that the it appeared to be connected.
> Keeping it open and browsing to some sites, I noticed that all of a sudden
> the connection would be broken. This occurred randomly and often enough
> that I could watch it happen in the diagram over the course of a few
> seconds.
> 10. Open device manager and expand Network adapters. My adapter is listed
> (Intel PRO/1000 MT Server Connection) and appears to be functioning
> properly. Clicking Update Driver... results in a message stating that I
> have the latest driver.
>
> All of this occurred sometime this afternoon, immediately after I had
> installed SP1 and rebooted. However, after about an hour of frustration
> and trying out the stuff that I mentioned, repeatedly, everything just
> started working again on its own - no connection problems at all. All
> websites seemed to download fine and the connection appeared to be stable.
>
> Unfortunately, it didn't last. Now, after not using my computer for a few
> hours, I woke it up and the problems are back again. I haven't tried
> rebooting yet but I will after I send this message.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> P.S., As I'm writing this, Windows Mail has even reported that it lost the
> NNTP connection :|
>