Wireless problem

[Brion Keagle]

None of the Vista systems we're testing can surf the web on wireless. We
have an open (unsecured) wireless network. The Vista machines pick up a
DHCP address just fine, they can ping the gateway, ping upstream devices -
as a matter of fact, I can trace a route all the way to most webservers on
the Internet (unless of course ICMP is blocked somewhere along the way). I
just can't browse to any websites. I have tried IE7 and Firefox, with the
same result. Oddly enough, I CAN browse to our own websites here on our
LAN.

Why would I be able to trace a route to a website, but not browse to that
same website? Perhaps port 80 is being blocked? Not by Vista - the Windows
firewall is actually off. Certainly not by our corporate firewall. What's
going on? Can anybody help?

Thanks!

 

[Larry Maturo]

If you have Microsoft OneCare, go to the web site and search, and
I belive they cover this. I had a similar problem, and eventually traced
it to OneCare.

-- Larry Maturo

 

[Brion Keagle]

Nope, I'm not using OneCare. Thanks anyway Larry.

 

[proficient]

I am running Windows Ultimate. Sometimes I connect to the internet
using my Ethernet port with the ip setting (192.168.1.5) and sometimes
I use USB port connecting directly to my ADSL modedm. The ip address
usually I give my USB connection is 192.168.1.6. I hard code these ip
settings manually.
Since yesterday for some reason everytime i enter the ip address it
disappears along with the subnet mask. Only the default gateway and
DNS entries are still there, however i can see the ip address using
IPCONFIG in command prompt.
It doesnt make sense to me. Why would the ip address and default
gateway disappears fromt he LAN Properties applet but my internet
connection still works and i can see my ip adress and all the correct
settings using IPCONFIG. Can anyone shed some light on this please?
Thank you.