Vista loses internet connection

[Lloyd Sheen]

Well I know the restart button on Vista real well. About 20 to 30 mins is
what I get for the internet. After that no mail, no IE , no firefox.

MS what a piece of sh__. I now get to reboot about 20 times a day. Just
like win 95 during a development cycle.

Besides all the other problems this is the WORST implementation of just
about anything.

MS you should be ASHAMED.

Lloyd Sheen

 

[Chris]

Well I know the restart button on Vista real well. About 20 to 30 mins
is what I get for the internet. After that no mail, no IE , no firefox.

MS what a piece of sh__. I now get to reboot about 20 times a day.
Just like win 95 during a development cycle.

Besides all the other problems this is the WORST implementation of just
about anything.

MS you should be ASHAMED.

Lloyd Sheen

Give some more info, we might be able to help. I have not had a crash
since it came out. I think Vista is quite good.

 

[Lloyd Sheen]

Please don't think I am being smart but this is the situation.

Use internet for a while or not. After about 20 to 30 mins go on to
internet. IE will not serve pages, mail will not recieve mail (also
FireFox).

I have tried to release/renew the IP address to no avail.

Time to reboot about every 20 to 30 minutes.

Lloyd Sheen

 

[Guest]

Do you have Zone alarm for a firewall?

Please don't think I am being smart but this is the situation.

Use internet for a while or not. After about 20 to 30 mins go on to
internet. IE will not serve pages, mail will not recieve mail (also
FireFox).

I have tried to release/renew the IP address to no avail.

Time to reboot about every 20 to 30 minutes.

Lloyd Sheen

 

[Lloyd Sheen]

I have only Live One Care from MS.

Lloyd

Do you have Zone alarm for a firewall?

 

[Rock]

I'm new to this forum but wanted to post about this- I am having the
same problem with Vista as well- frequently loses internet connection.
I have a dell laptop and have wi-fi internet connection. It seems to
lose connection after several minutes of idle time. Also regularly
happens after the computer is in sleep or hibernate mode.

I'm very unhappy with Vista about this (also unhappy that many
applications are unsupported on Vista but that's another story.)

Have you checked power management settings for the NIC in device manager to
not "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"? Application
compatibility, as is hardware driver compatibility, is the responsibility of
the software/hardware vendor.

 

[Lloyd Sheen]

For my internet dropping it just happens. Everything is fine and then ....
time to reboot. I use the restart button about as much as any thing else on
this Ultimate system.

LS

 

[Mike G]

I loose connection myself andI have to go to tools and uncheck "offline" all
the time. What makes it do that is a mystery to me?

 

[Guest]

i had the work offline thing to but then it stopped. THE PROBLEM I HAVE IS
CERTAIN WEB SITES THE CONNECTION WONT GO THROUGH AND THEN I CAN STOP THE
ATTEMPT AND TRY ANOTHER WEBSITE (LIKE THIS ONE) AND IT GOES RIGHT THROUGH.
VISTA SUCKS I HAVE A BRAND NEW 3000.00 CPU WITH THE BEST OF THE BEST AND I
HAVE TO USE MY OLDER DESK TOP TO DO MOST THINGS BECAUSE IT IS RUNNING THE
GREAT XP. VISTA IS A JOKE.

 

[Rock]

i had the work offline thing to but then it stopped. THE PROBLEM I HAVE IS
CERTAIN WEB SITES THE CONNECTION WONT GO THROUGH AND THEN I CAN STOP THE
ATTEMPT AND TRY ANOTHER WEBSITE (LIKE THIS ONE) AND IT GOES RIGHT THROUGH.
VISTA SUCKS I HAVE A BRAND NEW 3000.00 CPU WITH THE BEST OF THE BEST AND I
HAVE TO USE MY OLDER DESK TOP TO DO MOST THINGS BECAUSE IT IS RUNNING THE
GREAT XP. VISTA IS A JOKE.

For one thing, the caps lock key is broken, at the least it makes it hard to
read and most people will just ignore a post like that. Second are you
asking a question? If so post it as a new thread, not as a reply to someone
else's thread.

 

[simoncusonnet]

Have you checked power management settings for the NIC in device manager to
not "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"? Application
compatibility, as is hardware driver compatibility, is the responsibility of
the software/hardware vendor.

I have the same problem. Sometimes, I still have the local connection
( I can reach other computers in my network but not the internet) I
have to click on the icon between local netowrk and internet and it
goes on again. Or if I leave the computer on all night, in the morming
I have lost all connections. I make a detect and repair and on again.
But it's a pain in the arse.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Unchecked everything. Let's pray this works.

Thanks to Vera for mentioning this earlier, there may be more in the MS
KB also.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934430

 

[AlexB]

I am no quite sure what I want to say is directly related to your loss of
connectivity but there is a chance that you are missing on a ritual Vista
follows and unless you are vigilant you may get in trouble (temporarily).

Vista downloads upgrades at a certain time according to the schedule you
yourselves set up in Control Panel. There is also a default. If you did not
set them up they will be attempted at 3:00 AM daily. Then the system will
try to install them. It cannot install them without your permission as an
administrator. It places a button on Task Bar for your to click and it is
slightly highlighted in red. Sometimes two or three such buttons may
accumulate. Until you clicked them and gave the OS permission to go ahead
with installation the process is hanging in a queue. This perhaps blocks
your Internet, but I am not sure.

Next time I have a download I will check if the Internet access is up.

 

[AlexB]

When you first press your start button (power button on the machine) right
before any windows related messages appear, press F8 button. You may
actually try to do it a few times if you missed the moment. Also I am not
quite sure if it is F8, most likely it is F12, but I do not quite remember.

You will get a black screen with a few options. You will have to select them
with UP and Down arrows. There will be an options Start In Save Mode. Click
it.

It takes some time to navigate through subsequent instructions because
people who write them usually lapse in technical slang that generates
ambiguities in a lay mind. But it is doable.

 

[AlexB]

Sorry, I attached another reply to your post that was intended for a
different problem. My first post was OK. My second advice if you want to
take it is this. Next time it happens try to "log off" after Ctrl+Alt+Del.
It seems I've had somewhat similar problem (no loss of connectivity
though--at least I did not pay attention) which I cured always this way. You
may not need to reboot, just log off. It is much faster. The machine is
being cleaned up this way.

 

[Roger K]

Nope, takes either a router reboot or machine reboot, depending. A
logoff/logon doesn't help, but thanks for the suggestion.

I've been having similar problems - my Vista laptop was losing connectivity
after sleep but my XP desktop was good on the same modem. The cure I found
was to go into Device Manager and uninstall the driver for the network card,
then reboot and let Vista install the generic driver. It works fine now --
but I won't be surprised if the next update introduces the same problem
again.

 

[Dave Seven]

Hi Jim,

Have you fixed the problem since then ? I have the same setup as you
and made the same attempts as described in this whole thread, and am
still experiencing the problem.

Thanks a lot.

Sylvain.

I get this issue too on occasion but only since installing SP1. The
problem is Microsoft ****ing things up once again.

 

[the wharf rat]

I have lost my Internet Connection for my laptop, 2 days in a row.

Did you look under the couch? That's where I always find stuff.

 

[Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

Did you look under the couch? That's where I always find stuff.

It's probably buried under junk on the kitchen table, that's where my things
end up.
Regards Mike.