Hi everybody,
I'm having a weird problem. I own a Dell Vostro 1400 1.6ghz, 3gb ram, Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g card...
What is weird is that for some reason I would at first start connecting to the internet. So after I took out all the bloatware that Dell put in I was still connecting.
Then I decided to take out the Welcome Center that starts wheenver Vista boots up. After I restarted my computer, for some reason the internet would connect but it would be LOCAL only. It would not connect to the internet.
After I would reset my modem and router then it would work. But after I restarted my computer the connection again would be LOCAL only instead of internet.
so I decided to put in the Welcome Center back and all of a sudden the internet connected again.
Now after that I decided I wanted to install the Dell Touchpad software so I could disable the touchpad when I put in a external mouse. Now after I installed it and restarted, the connection AGAIN turned to local instead of internet.
So I restarted my modem and router and then it would connect. After I restarted though the connection would just turn LOCAL again.
Can anybody tell me what is going on? It this some sort of Vista Bug? I really don't want to take out the Dell Touchpad because not having it would be really annoying especially when I want to disable the touchpad when I have a external mouse.
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I had similar problem with my Vostro 1400 with Vista that it only could only get local connection. It turns out that I have multiple gateway set up due to my Wi-Fi bridged environment at home. After I turn off the WAN on one of the bridging router, I never have that problem again. Your situation may be different, but it is likely Vista related.
Weird problem with vista and connection
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Mayday981, Sep 24, 2007.