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Aug 6th, 2007

Re: Vista Local Access Only Problem

Hey guys,

I tried most of the things in here to no avail, i how ever have just gotten it working.

I'm running a linksys Wireless G w/ speed boost, sorry i cant remeber the revision number.

I did a reinstall of the driver from Device manager. Right clicked the device and checked delete the driver software for this device. Windows then picked it back up and did a generic Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter driver install and i tried to connect and it flew through in about 10 seconds with internet working.

If you are going to try this option i highly recommend that you try and get your hands on the proper driver from your manufacturers website first before deleting the old one just incase it doesnt work.

I have no proof that it was the driver causing the issues, it was how ever the one that windows downloaded on its own for it.

hope it helps,

Patrick

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Aug 9th, 2007

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I have a Linksys Wireless-G Router and spent hrs trying many of the suggestions in this forum to get my new Vista laptop onto my wireless network and internet. What finally worked for me after viewing help files from Linksys' site was this note:
NOTE: Make sure Display characters is checked, to display the WEP/WPA key being used by the router.

Make sure you enter the wireless network’s WEP or WPA key NOT the Passphrase.

I have TCP/IPv6 disabled. I do not have a static IP address on laptop.
Hope this helps someone. I know it's a frustrating process.
Pat

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Aug 14th, 2007

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Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by orlandobrotha ...

Hey Folks,

Just like everyone I have the same problem with my laptop (vista home) not able to connect to internet both thru ethernet and wireslessly. It is getting really frustated. My wireless card detects the connection but its only connected to local i.e. not able to connect to internet.

My home setup as follows : WRT54G linksys router. Have 3 other laptop which uses XP PRO and they are able to connect to the internet. But the problem only lies my vista laptop (home edition). My wiresless in WEP enable either.

Well below are the methods I have tried so far since the problem has occured:
1. Disabled the IPv6
2. Tried renewing the ipconfig in command prompt (as an admin)
3. Assigned Static IP address/submet mask/default gateway
4. Assigned a diff DNS server as well
5. enabled/disabled the wireless card and rebooted - multiple times
6. uninstalled the wireless card and re-installed it
7. turned off the auto tuning as well
8. made new network connections - manually
9. Reset the cable/modem etc as well.

Any other methods or help is greatly appreciated. I have wasted soo much time in this. Planning to go XP PRO if i cant get it dissolved.

Thanks a million
-S

Thanks for this list, I was about 2 seconds away from posting the same. I've also tried:
10. Edit registry to add DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle (1) to Hkey_Local_Machine\System\currentcontrolset\
services\tcpip\parameters\interfaces\{}
11. Disabled all firewalls (Norton, Windows)
4b. Changed DNS to OpenDNS settings (see opendns.com)

Mine drops at almost exactly 30 minutes from restart. I am convinced this can be fixed with a toggle/value in the registry, we just have to hunt it down. GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

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Aug 14th, 2007

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BTW, mine also worked flawlessly for the first two weeks, and then suddenly started the internet drops without anything being changed.

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Aug 19th, 2007

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Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by Stehil ...

Hey guys,

I tried most of the things in here to no avail, i how ever have just gotten it working.

I'm running a linksys Wireless G w/ speed boost, sorry i cant remeber the revision number.

I did a reinstall of the driver from Device manager. Right clicked the device and checked delete the driver software for this device. Windows then picked it back up and did a generic Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter driver install and i tried to connect and it flew through in about 10 seconds with internet working.

If you are going to try this option i highly recommend that you try and get your hands on the proper driver from your manufacturers website first before deleting the old one just incase it doesnt work.

I have no proof that it was the driver causing the issues, it was how ever the one that windows downloaded on its own for it.

hope it helps,

Patrick

Hi Everyone,

I signed up for this community so I can share how I resolved this 'local access only' issue on my Windows Vista Home Premium System. I currently have the following setup:

Rangemax NEXT Wireless Adapter WN311B
Rangemax NEXT Wireless-N Router WNR834Bv2

I had absolutely no issues with my internet access until I did a Windows Update for the first time and installed the latest Netgear driver for my wireless network card. This was part of an 'optional' upgrade that came with a list of about 28 (d'oh!) patches.

I don't have the driver version but the name of the update was:

Netgear Communications Inc. Networking sofware (sic) update released in November, 2006.

After my system rebooted and I could no longer access the internet, I tried all the steps that everyone has listed above (IPv6, etc...) to no avail. I just simply rolled back to the default driver for my wireless NIC: Broadcom 8.211n Network Adapter Driver Version: 4.82.28.56 and have no problems since.

Hope this helps,
T

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Aug 23rd, 2007

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Like the post above, I thought I'd help the google searchers with my "fix" for this problem. My new HP laptop worked flawlessly for an hour until I decided to mess about with setting up a wireless network between my old and new laptops to transfer files. I used the wizards, didn't get it working and gave up. Went back to using the internet only to find the dreaded "Local Access" only on my wireless connection.

I was about to try the fix suggested in a previous post of turning off
IPv6 when I accidentally clicked on the properties tab for IPv4. I noticed it had DHCP turned off, so turned it on and hey presto - instantly fixed.

I realise that there are some more deep seated and varied technical issues with Vista and this "Local Access" problem, but my problem was a simple button not ticked.

Hope someone else can fix their problem with this quick Properties check.

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Aug 25th, 2007

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I'm pretty sure,for the majority of the folks experiencing this issue, it's just a matter of the Wireless connection setting up an extraneous IP address (Auto IP configuration). I ran back through the steps, and IPConfig print outs, I took to fix this issue and came to the conlclusion that the PC tries to assign a wireless Ip address that doesn't fall within most commercially sold routers' Ip configuration scheme. I'm thinking that this may have been a security precaution on the part of Microsoft (or just a fluke). It would prevent the PC from automatically connecting to a wireless network without the users input on intial boot-ups.

More than likely, ensuring DHCP is enabled, and turning off automatic IP config would remedy this issue. Granted there may some folks with much more deeply rooted problems, but hopefully this thread helps some very frustrated Vista users.

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Aug 29th, 2007

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ok so I am one of the horde daniweb nubs that found this thread through a google search. I have had a vista laptop since february and hadnt had a problem with my connection up until now. I just spent the last three hours trying various methods on this forum and others and just found the solution.

its a variation of the netsh junk that needs to be entered into the cmd prompt. My problem apparently had something to do with the Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) also. Don't ask me what that is because I dont know. But none the less type into the cmd prompt:

netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled autotuninglevel=disabled
You should get an OK message.

If you dont, and it tells you you dont have access, reopen the cmd prompt as an admin by right clicking the program in the start menu and clicking "run as administrator." Now enter the netsh comand again and you should get the OK message.

Now, almost done. Right click your network connection taskbar icon and click "diagnose and repair." This should fix everything. Afterwards repairing it will automatically change the autotuninglevel back to disabled. I don't know if this means that the problem is fixed for good or that I will have to reenter that command again every once and a while.

Hope this helps out some other people. What a nuisance... and just when I was starting to like Vista.

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Sep 2nd, 2007

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It's official: ericisshort is a god. Tried your suggestion on my wife's new Compaq 5139 and, after a pause of a few minutes, the internet connection settled down for the first time since she bought the machine two weeks ago. This means a) my wife is happy and b) I don't have to sit for hours in front of her computer trying to battle with vista's awful dialog boxes. It still takes the machine a good four minutes to recognise the wireless network, but once it has, it's solid. For what it's worth, I also had mistakenly entered our home network as Public, so I changed it to Private; I also changed the network name from (vista default) Workgroup, to (xp default) MS HOME; for good measure, I also turned off hibernate as it seemed it could have been one of the reasons for the internet connection being dropped.

Two questions: Why did MicroSoft change the xp winsock that worked, to this rubbish, and who would ever want "local access only" anyway?

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Sep 11th, 2007

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Had the same problem descibed by others - tried all the suggestions, reset the router - WEP On-Off etc.

Finally I looked at the 2 TCPs the 6 and 4 - I have a core duo processer so this is why there are 2?

One was not set to obtain IP and DNS automatically - corrected this and now it works.

Perhaps it was a coincidence but I was on the road last week and connected to the TPA and MCO airport systems - perhaps this is where it got reset - have not had a problem in the 2 months prior to this.

But just to get in the Bill Gates bitch - how can they make so many changes and make the world have to figure out how to do their work?

Vista implementation is going to have big time implications for all of us.

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