Re: SP1 Causes Problems with Internet Connection

does it work better with addons disabled?
right click IE icon on desktop, start without addons

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