Vista - network drops

I'm running windows vista home premium edition and i'm having some issues
with my network that keeps dropping everytime i try to access the network to
file share between my 3 machines 2 of which are running vista and i have i
file server running xp pro sp2 now everytime i switch my machine on (the
vista machine ) my router resets itself and it takes around 30 seconds to a
minute to sort itself out it will then run o.k on the internet for a while
but then suddenly resets itself again and then if i try to move any files
about onto my storage drives on the file server as soon as i double click on
the network icon on the desktop it resets the router.The router i am
currently using which works fine with machines running xp/2000 is a 3com
officeconnect 3crwe754g72-a and the firmware is up to date now as i
understand it vista has a window scale auto tuning feature which windows xp
doesn't have so i have disabled this using the netsh command prompt and this
has pretty much had no effect at all does anybody have any suggestions how to
overcome this problem or is it just going to be a case of wait and see what
the sp1 for vista brings if and when it's rolled out.

We had a case like this one. Running IE on Vista re-load the router. I don't remember the fix, but try Microsoft update. This link may help.

Vista incompatible issuesSome switch may not compatible with Vista – Solutions: upgrade the firmware, disable the IPv6, re-configure the speed, and setup TCP/IP manually. ...
www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistacompatible.htm


Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"smallprint" <smallprint@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0E609433-96C3-4216-AACF-5C3B16178686@microsoft.com...
I'm running windows vista home premium edition and i'm having some issues
with my network that keeps dropping everytime i try to access the network to
file share between my 3 machines 2 of which are running vista and i have i
file server running xp pro sp2 now everytime i switch my machine on (the
vista machine ) my router resets itself and it takes around 30 seconds to a
minute to sort itself out it will then run o.k on the internet for a while
but then suddenly resets itself again and then if i try to move any files
about onto my storage drives on the file server as soon as i double click on
the network icon on the desktop it resets the router.The router i am
currently using which works fine with machines running xp/2000 is a 3com
officeconnect 3crwe754g72-a and the firmware is up to date now as i
understand it vista has a window scale auto tuning feature which windows xp
doesn't have so i have disabled this using the netsh command prompt and this
has pretty much had no effect at all does anybody have any suggestions how to
overcome this problem or is it just going to be a case of wait and see what
the sp1 for vista brings if and when it's rolled out.

"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> We had a case like this one. Running IE on Vista re-load the router. I don't remember the fix, but try Microsoft update. This link may help.
>
> Vista incompatible issuesSome switch may not compatible with Vista – Solutions: upgrade the firmware, disable the IPv6, re-configure the speed, and setup TCP/IP manually. ...
> www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistacompatible.htm
>
>
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "smallprint" <smallprint@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0E609433-96C3-4216-AACF-5C3B16178686@microsoft.com...
> I'm running windows vista home premium edition and i'm having some issues
> with my network that keeps dropping everytime i try to access the network to
> file share between my 3 machines 2 of which are running vista and i have i
> file server running xp pro sp2 now everytime i switch my machine on (the
> vista machine ) my router resets itself and it takes around 30 seconds to a
> minute to sort itself out it will then run o.k on the internet for a while
> but then suddenly resets itself again and then if i try to move any files
> about onto my storage drives on the file server as soon as i double click on
> the network icon on the desktop it resets the router.The router i am
> currently using which works fine with machines running xp/2000 is a 3com
> officeconnect 3crwe754g72-a and the firmware is up to date now as i
> understand it vista has a window scale auto tuning feature which windows xp
> doesn't have so i have disabled this using the netsh command prompt and this
> has pretty much had no effect at all does anybody have any suggestions how to
> overcome this problem or is it just going to be a case of wait and see what
> the sp1 for vista brings if and when it's rolled out


I have already updated the firmware for the router which is the latest
version 1.31 and i have already stop ipv6 and both the link layer layer
discovery items and given all the machines on the network a static ip also i
have disabled the DHCP server on the router so to avoid any dhcp clash as for
the windows update page i haven't found anything of use so far but surfing
the internet yesterday i found a handy little tool called wireshark a packet
capturing program which upon running that i found the a lot of malformed
packets in the network traffic which is why i also tried disabling the window
scale auto tuning feature using the netsh command prompt to see if that was
the problem but that doesn't seem to have done anything at all really .