Thanks so much dude, this totally fixed my problem, hopefully it fixes jugs446's problem aswell.

I've seen quite a few networking issues pop up with Vista by now, and you are right, that does seem to fix a lot of them. I guess IPv6 isn't really used much if any yet and a lot of consumer gear must have conflicts with it. Its a nice idea that vista automatically put it in in preparation for the future... but we all know how extra complexity using protocols that aren't fully implemented goes. :/

On a side note, if removing IPv6 doesn't help Jugs446 then he could always try to assign a static IP to his wireless connection.

I don't have Vista in front of me ATM, so please bear with me the wording might not be exact, but to specify a static IP address you would need to: Get into the network connections, and right-click on the wireless network connection and choose properties. Find TCP/IP v 4, highlight it and click Properties , then move the dots from "obtain automatically" to specify, and type in, in Jug's case,:

Ip address: 192.168.1.120 (last octet should be a number between 2-254 and not in the range of numbers dynamically assigned by the router, Linksys routers usually give in the low hundreds so I would avoid those, but your router gave you 33. To be safe you could use 200 instead of 120, I was really just being arbitrary.)

subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1

and give yourself 192.168.1.1 as your primary DNS. (If that doesn't work you could try the DNS server of your actual Internet service provider, you would find that out by bypassing the router, plugging straight in, and doing an ipconfig from a command prompt.)

So i tried disabling IPV6..but that didnt work. I assigned a static IP address..and that didnt work either. Any other suggestions. I'm about to give up and get XP...

the "Unidentified Network" problem and the "Multiple Networks" problem goes away...but still only Local Access for Wireless? How exactly do you disable IPv6. Wireless properties, and uncheck IPv6, right?

Does my DHCP need to be enabled for wireless? Because it is enabled for my ethernet, which works fine. If so, how do I go about doing that?

you're not gonna believe this..but WIRELESS IS WORKING!!! Don't know what I did this time. But it works for now. Knowing my luck..it wont last very long.

Hi,

I had a similar problem with my laptop, and ended up solving it by editing the registry. There's a bit more about it here.

Hi. I've got the same problem and I want to try disabling the IPv6 and leaving the IPv4 and setting a DNS. But I only manage to to the first bit, I have no idea what a DNS is or how to set one up!

I'm thinking this is gonna solve the problem but I don't know how to do it! Please help!!!!

ok.... I know now. but it still didn't fix it. Help!

So..its been two days and my wireless is still working better than ever. Caterina..what I did was disabled IPv6 and assigned a static IP address. I used 192.168.1.200 for the IP. 255.255.255.0 for subnet mask. and 192.168.1.1 for default gateway and 192.168.1.1 for DNS server. Try doing that? Thats what worked for my after a week of trying everything else. Hopefully it works for you.