Excellent news Galeth and a good tip for WiFi sufferers - it is strange but I suspect that when you renamed your WiFi and changed channel that your AV software reconfigured.

Have you tried thoroughly stripping out your AV and firewall software? You may, if you are running Norton need to get hold of the tool to complete the removal. Once done reinstall the network...

Great news and well doem Tashimoto7 - this is a weird problem and it will be interesting to see if SP1 solves the problem properly. I am not hopeful, but I invested in new Netgear card and router...

I doubt if it is an ISP issue as I spent several hours with my machine under remote control from BT as they tried to hunt down the problem. In the end MS research department suggested a clean...

It appears that the local only problem may be due to a misconfigured firewall rather than a fault in vista. If you have the problem of a 'twin' public network appearing in the network and sharing...

Yes I have the same problem - the disconnect facility will not work because Vista thinks that my network is the only active network.

Here is the printout of my IPCONFIG/all if it helps
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\test>ipconfig /all

Windows IP...

Can anyone fix my problem. I have a fixd connection to a Netgear router (new at MS suggestion) and have had the LOcal Access Only problem. On log on my network shows up with an unidentified public...