Okay, I've got a rather unique one. I mananged to get my network
running smoothly (running Vista Ultimate on my main system, which
shares the network with three XP Business systems), and yesterday,
suddenly Vista decides that the network connection is no longer there,
thus negating my internet, print/file sharing and streaming
capabilities.

The odd part about it is that strangely, at the same time the network
center still sees the connection, but to actually use it, it's asking
me to dial into PPPoE, something that not only have I never had to do
before, I shouldn't need to "dial into" a broadband connection in the
first place.

If there's anyone who can shed some light on this, I'd be appreciative.


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Sanskrit

Posting the result of ipconfig /all may help.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Sanskrit" wrote in message ...

Okay, I've got a rather unique one. I mananged to get my network
running smoothly (running Vista Ultimate on my main system, which
shares the network with three XP Business systems), and yesterday,
suddenly Vista decides that the network connection is no longer there,
thus negating my internet, print/file sharing and streaming
capabilities.

The odd part about it is that strangely, at the same time the network
center still sees the connection, but to actually use it, it's asking
me to dial into PPPoE, something that not only have I never had to do
before, I shouldn't need to "dial into" a broadband connection in the
first place.

If there's anyone who can shed some light on this, I'd be appreciative.


--
Sanskrit

I have the same problem using vista and wireless. In the middle of a session
IE will no longer respond. The connection still exists but for some reason it
is no longer recognizing my laptop. I have to shut down and relog in to get
the connection again. The strange thing is I notice IE just before the log
out takes place and it appears to be behind the desktop. However, when I
check before logging out nothing is behind the desktop.


"Sanskrit" wrote:


Okay, I've got a rather unique one. I mananged to get my network
running smoothly (running Vista Ultimate on my main system, which
shares the network with three XP Business systems), and yesterday,
suddenly Vista decides that the network connection is no longer there,
thus negating my internet, print/file sharing and streaming
capabilities.

The odd part about it is that strangely, at the same time the network
center still sees the connection, but to actually use it, it's asking
me to dial into PPPoE, something that not only have I never had to do
before, I shouldn't need to "dial into" a broadband connection in the
first place.

If there's anyone who can shed some light on this, I'd be appreciative.


--
Sanskrit

Actually, I was able to fix it. The problem was a glitch that had
nothing to do with my IPCONFIG, but rather my third-party firewall and
my network vendor. Got the patch, problem solved.


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Sanskrit

Thank you for the update.

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Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Sanskrit" wrote in message
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Actually, I was able to fix it. The problem was a glitch that had
nothing to do with my IPCONFIG, but rather my third-party firewall and
my network vendor. Got the patch, problem solved.


--
Sanskrit