Re: SP1 Causes Problems with Internet Connection

see my post above, if you find an answer let me know to____will let you know
if I find the answer_____ think I had this problem before SP1


"Dave Sexton" <dave@dave_remove_this_sexton.com> wrote in message
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> 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 :|
>