Vista - No Internet from IE - Problems - Fix?

[Greg Reid]

Evidentily a lot of people are experiencing interent problems with Vista
RC1, including me. When trying to go to sites, the magority of them time out
by URL or IP.

All of my settings are correct or (dumbed down) in Vista. IPv4 has static
entries. Firewall off. Security set to low. Blockers, virus prgms etc
disabled. IPv6 disabled on NIC. MTU set to 1452. TCP Recieve Window set to
32767.

All of my other connected XP and W2K computers get to the internet with no
problems, thereby elimintating router, dsl issues. I know it also has
nothing to do with switch port.

Things I've tried besides the obvious type stuff listed above.
1. Since Vista automatically tunes interface settings, I disabled that
function by running the command: netsh int tcp set global
autotuninglevel=disabled. Then I manually set the MTU and TCP Recieve Window
in the registry since DrTCP and Vista are incompatible.

What I've learned.
The latest available Vista build has a bug where it tanks when coming across
SPI (stateful packet inspection) in some routers. Which is why this problem
is only affecting some people.
Disabling SPI in my Cisco 837 leaves too much of a vunerability, so that's
not an option. Leaving me with having to uninstall Vista and go back to XP.
I haven't heard anyone say if RC2 corrects this problem. Now that MS has
pulled RC2, maybe they would consider making it available again if it does
indeed fix the internet problem.

My questions are, is there currently a known fix, workaround or some kind of
voodo that will make the internet go? Because frankly, a problem of this
magnitude should not be showing up in a RC.

 

[Guest]

What are some of the sites? I'll give them a try.

 

[Flatch U. Lance]

You're kidding, right?

What are some of the sites? I'll give them a try.

 

[Guest]

Nope. While my wife may disagree, I believe there are still a few sites on
the Internet I haven't visited yet.

 

[robw]

If you think it's bad in RC1. Don't Upgrade from RC1 to RC2 or you'll have
NO network. What this means to me : If you ever have to reinstall Windows
Vista, forget about networking.

They say "clean installs are fine", YMMV.

My problems with RC1 Network problems were largely solved by turning on SSL
(Hey, SSL Baby, come over here, you know - you're cute) -- wait no, not like
that, I mean tools->options->Advnaced->Check to enable SSL.

-Rob

 

[Guest]

Set this entry ' IPv4 has static entries" to "disable". In device manager,
expand network adapters and right click on your card. Select properties.
Select the Advanced Tab. You should then see the options.
TCP checksum offload(IPv4)
TCP checksum offload(IPv6)
UPD checksum offload(IPv4)
UPD checksum offload(IPv6)

Set then to "disable"

 

[=?iso-8859-2?Q?Maciej_So=B3tysiak?=]

I haven't heard anyone say if RC2 corrects this problem. Now that MS has

pulled RC2, maybe they would consider making it available again if it does
indeed fix the internet problem.

It doesn't fix it, the problem is still there. :-(

My questions are, is there currently a known fix, workaround or some kind
of
voodo that will make the internet go? Because frankly, a problem of this
magnitude should not be showing up in a RC.

Well, I managed to get RC1 running but don't know how. Just to get web
connectivity I used a proxy for some time, turned off ipv6 and turned off
the proxy and it started running.
But now after upgrade to RC2 the problem is back.