Ok, I've had a look through ths forum and tried several of the suggestions including 1. Manally changing the TCP/IP settings (I don't know if they are right, I'm just copying them from the status bit of the router set up) 2. Adding the BroadcastFlagToggle entry to the registry as per the microsoft support article. 3. typing that stuff into the CMD prompt above. 4. Changing the broadcast channel. 5. disabling ipv6 6. aimlessly tampering with the settings of both laptop and router. All with...

NO RESULTS!

I thought today with upgrading to SP1 it would solve the problem but NO!

I have a one year old Acer Aspire 3690 with a Atheros AR5005G adapter. The router is a Cable & Wireless ADSL 2+ which has no info about it when you google the model number.

Funny thing is, my housemate is able to get his mac connected, I can get my work laptop which has XP on it connected OK. I've taken the Vista laptop out to pubs and cafes which it's be able to connect both on open and WPA connections. It seems this router just doesn't get on with Vista.

Have you any other suggestions.

Thanks in Advance...

I've gone through this whole thread, and I still haven't found a solution to my problem.

The fun started last week when a friend called to complain about her HP laptop running Vista Home Premium. She has two ISPs (one for home and the other for her office; she has her own business). She has two laptops, one running XP and the other running Vista. Both of her computers work (both wired and wireless) on her home router. However, her Vista laptop got "local access only" when she tried to connect wirelessly to her office router. We contacted the ISP, and the technician said it was a Vista problem and to disable security and/or install SP1. I brought the computer home with me, and it connected effortless to my Apple Airport Extreme. I downloaded all the Vista updates and installed them, and I'll return the computer on Wednesday and hope...

In the meantime, I got a call from a colleague whose Hp Pavillion running Vista Home Premium refuses to connect either wired or wirelessly. Both connection types give "local access only". I've tried about everything in this thread, including assigning a static IP, connecting directly to my modem, and installing SP1. I even tried removing the battery and unplugging the system for a while. Nothing works.

As I still have my friend's working (on my network anyhow) laptop, I compared the network settings with the settings of the laptop which doesn't work. The working laptop has IPv6 enabled, and DHCP enabled. I can't see any configuration differences, but one system works and the other doesn't.

The only possible clue I have is that a friend of my colleague installed Avast on my colleague's system. When the computer restarted, it got a BSOD, and my colleague "removed" Avast. I don't know if he uninstalled it properly or just deleted the files. I do know that in days gone by, there was a big hole in antivirus protection between the time when the network came up and when the antivirus software was running, and I think that the vendors tried to remedy this by blocking network access until the antivirus application was running. I'm thinking that perhaps Avast blocked access, my colleague removed the product, and now access can't be unblocked. After I send this, I'm going to reinstall Avast just for the hell of it...

I really don't want to reinstall Vista from scratch, because it will be a major effort to reinstall my colleague's applications. What I'd like to do is to wipe the network configuration clean and let Vista reinstall it. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions...

I just registered to maybe help someoue out with this problem.

I've gone through this thread and tried the numerous suggestions. But I believe I have a fix, well for my scenario anyway.

I have 3 computers connecting wirelessly 2 XP, 1 Vista. XP connects fine but Vista didn't.

My vista client would connect to the network with a strong signal, but local only and would not get a DHCP IP address, and would revert to a autoconfig 169.xxx.xxx.xxx address. I'd put in a manual IP address and it would work fine, but I wasn't happy with this and was pulling my hair out for a couple of days restarting computers/routers, removing wireless security, re-installing network drivers etc etc.
In the end I simply did a "ipconfig /renew" from a command prompt and hey presto I got a DHCP address.

The DHCP on my router (year old Belkin) had a lease time of forever. So I'm presuming Vista was trying to get it's original IP address and because I had been restarting the router, it's IP had been given to something else, so vista reverted to an autoconfig address.

Fustratingly whenever I do a "ipconfig /renew" I always do a "ipconfig /release" first so when I tried this days ago, the release wouldn't work requesting elevated privilges, so never tried the renew.

Anyway Hope this helps someone out there.

btw- I have now set my lease time to 2 days on my router.

This should help some people; the lease problem is probably why resetting the router has fixed the problem for some.

Unfortunately, there seems to be multiple causes for Vista network problems. In my case, neither a wired nor a wireless connection works, and I've renewed the lease, reset the router, and connected directly to the modem without success...:-(

I love my new Mac!

Restarting the router didn't fix it for me. specifically running the renew was key for me

Sadly, that didn't help me. I've done everything short of sacrificing a virgin. However, it would be easier to reinstall Vista than to find one of those around here...

btw.. its dell laptop and I'm able to connect to internet via static I.P.
But it's not catching Dynamic I.P.

Hi..
I have Windows Vista Enterprise laptop given by my company.I have a wireless router in my home.I am able to connect to internet in my office via wireless connection but I'm unable to connect to internet in my home.

I've been fighting with Vista since I got it to connect wirelessly to my router with no results. I've followed this thread for some time, trying most of the things contained within. Tonight I stumbled upon a solution that I wanted to share.

Router: Netgear WGR614v5

I tried with no security and WEP security for a while, but tonight I changed my security to WPA-PSK and it magically worked, no more LOCAL ONLY!

Other things I tried include the registry fix, disabling IPv6, statically assigning an IP Address, among other things.

Hopefully this helps someone... try WPA!

Well, after trying all of the above with no results, I noticed when looking at the IPCONFIG, the physical address of my ethernet nic was all zeros. So I pulled the nic out of the laptop and wrote down the physical address stamped on the chip, then went into device manager and hard coded that address into the nic.