Vista router issues

modo77 · 2 Oct 2006 at 11:50

Hey all,

I've got a very odd problem with the latest few builds of vista, when I'm connected through my router I cannot view a large amount of websites. And BF2 cannot connect to the login server. If I swap back over to XP everything is fine.

If I disconnect the router and plug directly into the cable modem, everything is also fine. Don't see why this could be happening. Oh and its in any browser, and I can ping the sites I cannot view.

modo77 · 4 Oct 2006 at 11:54

Looks like everyone else is as confused as me. Also noticed that I cannot access the routers config's in vista.
Find it strange I can ping these sites but not view them.
Firefox is giving me a timeout error when trying these sites.
Some examples are:
www.skysports.com
www.tomshardware.com
webmail.blueyonder.co.uk
selfcare.blueyonder.co.uk however www.blueyonder.co.uk is ok.
pop3 and smtp access also timeout.

riddlermarc · 4 Oct 2006 at 12:37

modo77 said:
Some examples are:
www.skysports.com
www.tomshardware.com

I just rdp'd onto my home Vista box (RC1 5600) and they both work fine :confused:

Are you using DHCP?

PiKe · 4 Oct 2006 at 14:15

Try this: Go to device manager, find your network adapter, choose properties, click advanced, click TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4) and select disable.

modo77 · 4 Oct 2006 at 14:33

riddlermarc said:
Are you using DHCP?

Yep

PiKe said:
Try this: Go to device manager, find your network adapter, choose properties, click advanced, click TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4) and select disable.

Tried that, still the same.

Edit In fact its not the same I'm not getting the timeout error anymore. And I now cannot ping the sites in question.

riddlermarc · 4 Oct 2006 at 15:55

modo77 said:
Yep

Tried that, still the same.

Edit In fact its not the same I'm not getting the timeout error anymore. And I now cannot ping the sites in question.

Can you ping the router and/or get to the router's admin pages? If so, is there a page on the router that allows you to ping out, if so it's a good way to see if the problem is post-router or not.

modo77 · 4 Oct 2006 at 16:47

I can ping the router, but not access the pages.

modo77 · 4 Oct 2006 at 16:53

Ah I've just disabled the udp checksum aswell as the tcp. I can now get all pages and bf2 is connecting now.

Cheers.

Still can't get the config pages up though?

riddlermarc · 4 Oct 2006 at 16:54

edited due to above post