 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
internet connection weirdness with VISTA
 |
•
•
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 50
Reputation: 
Solved Threads: 0
Junior Poster in Training
hello to alll and thanks for checkin this out
i am on a Dell laptop with windows vista and i have been having some weird problems with my internet connection. i recieve my internet from a wireless router on the downstairs computer. it connects to the laptop perfectly but for some reason every couple minutes or so my internet will take very long to load pages and things of the sort. it is not the connection because i had a friend brign over his laptop and it did not act that way on his. i have ran a bunch of different virus type scanning applications and all have come up with no problems. if anyone has any suggestions that would be awesome!
thanks for reading!
kilegoty
i am on a Dell laptop with windows vista and i have been having some weird problems with my internet connection. i recieve my internet from a wireless router on the downstairs computer. it connects to the laptop perfectly but for some reason every couple minutes or so my internet will take very long to load pages and things of the sort. it is not the connection because i had a friend brign over his laptop and it did not act that way on his. i have ran a bunch of different virus type scanning applications and all have come up with no problems. if anyone has any suggestions that would be awesome!
thanks for reading!
kilegoty
•
•
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 225
Reputation:
Solved Threads: 7
Posting Whiz in Training
What are the specs of the laptop? how much RAM, what processor, etc?
•
•
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 50
Reputation:
Solved Threads: 0
Junior Poster in Training
2 gb of RAM
Dual Core - 1.73 GHz
its pratically brand new
Dual Core - 1.73 GHz
its pratically brand new
•
•
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 9,810
Reputation: 
Solved Threads: 515
how does it act if you hook it wired to the router .could be an issue with the quality of the Dell wireless device and it maybe dropping the connection
Last edited by caperjack; Mar 26th, 2008 at 6:15 pm.
Win7 whats it all about .
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/windows/windows-7/
Going with the Flow ,but the water is low and the rocks are big
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/windows/windows-7/
Going with the Flow ,but the water is low and the rocks are big
•
•
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 50
Reputation:
Solved Threads: 0
Junior Poster in Training
i have had it directly connected to the ethernet cables at my house and at a friend's house and it doesn't do the weird connection things...
i am not sure about the wireless situation though - the computer is practically new
i am not sure about the wireless situation though - the computer is practically new
•
•
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 9,810
Reputation:
Solved Threads: 515
•
•
•
•
Originally Posted by kilegoty 
i am not sure about the wireless situation though - the computer is practically new
Win7 whats it all about .
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/windows/windows-7/
Going with the Flow ,but the water is low and the rocks are big
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/windows/windows-7/
Going with the Flow ,but the water is low and the rocks are big
I had the same problems.
If you didn't have connection problem with other operation system, that mean's you are in trouble with windows vista.
But you can solve the problem as I did.
Setup Service Pack 1 of Vista and update your router's firmware.
Best Regards
If you didn't have connection problem with other operation system, that mean's you are in trouble with windows vista.
But you can solve the problem as I did.
Setup Service Pack 1 of Vista and update your router's firmware.
Best Regards
•
•
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 50
Reputation:
Solved Threads: 0
Junior Poster in Training
thanks a lot for the advice man
ill give it a try and let you know what turns up
can you please be more specific when you say "update your routers firmware"?
waaaay over my head man haha
thanks
kilegoty
ill give it a try and let you know what turns up
can you please be more specific when you say "update your routers firmware"?
waaaay over my head man haha
thanks
kilegoty
"Setup Service Pack 1 of Vista and update your router's firmware."
Sounds like good advice.
Go to your router manufacturer's site and look for a firmware update. This usually explained somewhere on the site. Basically, you just download a small file and run a program from the router web page to update.
Read carefully and it's simple.
Sounds like good advice.
Go to your router manufacturer's site and look for a firmware update. This usually explained somewhere on the site. Basically, you just download a small file and run a program from the router web page to update.
Read carefully and it's simple.
BS, PH, CIB
•
•
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 9,810
Reputation:
Solved Threads: 515
actually most routers have a spot to click on and it will check for and install the update from within the routers setup ,
Win7 whats it all about .
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/windows/windows-7/
Going with the Flow ,but the water is low and the rocks are big
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/windows/windows-7/
Going with the Flow ,but the water is low and the rocks are big
|
Other Threads in the Windows Vista and Windows 7 Forum
- Previous Thread: Internet suddenly stopped working on Vista
- Next Thread: Windows 7 And The Incredible Shrinking Keyboard
Views: 1425 | Replies: 10
| Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Latest Windows Vista and Windows 7 Posts
Related Forum Features
Tag cloud for Windows Vista and Windows 7
.net 0xc000000f 7 32bit advertising android apple application azure ballmer beta billgates bing blackberry blog cloudcomputing code computer cpu desktop development disk downloads drm economy emulation error europe failure free freeze fsf gartner google government hp internet internetexplorer ip iphone killswitch licensing linux mac merger microsoft midori mobile mojave monopolies multitouch newbie news operating operatingsystem operatingsystems opinion os osx outlook patch patents pc phishing pirate postbuild power research russia security securitybulletin seinfeld server software sp1 sp3 spyware steve steveballmer survey system touchscreen ubuntu unix update upgrade virtual virtualization vista win7 window windows windows7 windowsmobile windowsserver windowsvista windowsxp wpf xp yahoo
