internet not working in vista anymore...any ideas?

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Got a full copy of vista ultimate running on another partition which i haven't used for a few weeks. Logged onto it today but the internet isn't working properly - i can ping jolt etc fine (and with great results) but i can't load any websites etc. It's fully activated etc and everything else in the OS is working fine.

FYI - XP which i'm writing this message from is fine and the net works as it should.
Any thoughts?
 
OzyOly said:
Have you tried booting a linux CD to see if it's your hardware or not?
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hmmn, don't have linux. But as i said - i know the router is working fine because i'm using it now in XP. It's just in vista that pages won't load.
 
OzyOly said:
Get damn small linux and burn it to a CD and boot it on your vista PC, it doesn't install it runs off the ram. Just use it to check the network hardware on your PC, unless you are certain your PC hardware has not crapped out.
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my vista PC and my XP pc are the same pc. I can't see how the hardware could have crapped out considering everything is hunky dorey when i'm using XP.
 
Le Samourai said:
Might just be a DNS issue.

Try configuring your IPv4 settings in TCP/IP and manually adding IP, gateway and your ISP's DNS server settings.
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I manually put in my isp DNS settings, but what should i put for IP and gateway? 192.168.0.2 and 255.255.255.0?
 
thanks for the reply, but alas still no luck.

As far as i can tell, the internet is basically connected. It says it is and i can ping. When i try to load a webpage, it tells me the page is loading - it just never actually does. Same with firefox and IE7. I'm completely baffled. It was working fine a couple of weeks ago in my previous flat on the same ISP / same router etc. :confused: :confused:
 
purejamie said:
Hi there,

I had the same problems when I installed Vista originally; both my servers and xp clients would work fine on the internet whereas the vista box would either be very slow or not work at all.

In my instance I traced it back to the "Auto Tuning" feature of vista where it will attempt to massage your packet sizes (maybe MTU as well? can't quite remember). When I disabled this feature everything started working nice and speedily again - maybe worth a try... The command to disable this is:

Code: 
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable

I *think* that was the command - if not, do a bit of searching on the netsh command.


Cheers,
Jamie.
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thanks, i will give that a shot
 
bit of an update on this one:

Finally got round to having time to try vista again - but net still not working. So i formatted the vista partition and reinstalled - same thing, net not working. So i loaded up the XP partition to find this thread with that netsh command, but XP was doing the same thing - http was refusing to work (everything else was fine - torrents etc). So i was panicking slightly and decided to format the vista partition again - and as soon as i started doing so, the internet came back to life in XP! Very odd!! I'm going to reinstall vista later and try that command out.
 
well, i did a completely fresh install of vista ultimate and still no luck. Tried that command, tried entering dns manually etc. It's showing as being connected to local and internet, but i can't view any websites. I can still ping though.

Really frustrated with this. Have removed vista (again). Does anyone have any clue what this might be??? :(
 
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