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Vista Internet Problem
Just started using Vista, every half hour or so my internet connection (broadband) drops out for 2 or 3 minutes. Anyone come across this and got a fix?
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Hi Harry, I swiped this from Yahoo Answers. —
"What I’m currently thinking of, might be the problem described. Power management is more than likely killing off your Internet connection via the Local Area Connection setting.
Click on the network icon in the task bar on your Vista
computer. Double-click in the pop-up ‘Network Access: Local and Internet.The ‘Network and Sharing Center’ Explorer window will pop-up.
Look for ‘Network(Public Network)’ – Click ‘View Status’.The ‘Local Area Connection Status’ will pop-up. Click ‘Properties’. Continue with the User Account Control, click ‘Configure’, and make sure the ‘Allow this computer to this off this device to save power’ is unchecked. Finally, click ‘Okay’.
The above seems to be the fix for what you have described up to this point. Hopefully, this will cure the occurrence."
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Thanks Simon, made those changes, we shall see what happens. 😀
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spoke to soon Simon, happened again just now. Scratching the metaphysics now! 🙁
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Harry, I can’t help you with this problem. But good luck with Vista.
I have it on my laptop and it drives me nuts! Every time I switch it on it seems to search for updates and install them, which makes working on it frustratingly slow. It is also forever asking for permission for things….
I wish I had downgraded to XP when I bought it………… -
Hi Harry
Can you post some more info as to your setup?
Modem or router etc were you running XP with no problems until you went to Vista, ISP ?
Maybe then more suggestions will come.
Cheers.
Tim.
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Think I’m going to go back to XP, this just isn’t worth the hassle and annoyance! You are so right Angelique, I switched off the updates and do it when I want to as the incessant downloading when I switched off or on is ridiculous.
Tim, this ‘pause’ in running happens no matter what I am doing….working in Corel or on the Internet. Nothing shows up in task manager either while it is hung. It’s Vista Ultimate and its loaded on a Dell Inspiron 8600 with 512 mb ram. 32 Bit operating system.
Had a comedy presentation of old photos to do at a family birthday last night and discovered that Vista wouldn’t allow me to use dual monitors or if it did I couldn’t find how to do it……..not a popular boy me!!! 🙁 🙁 Sick of it now…..where’s me XP! -
at a guess 512Mb RAM is way to little. 2Gig would be best to give you a workable system.
Tim.
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I thought Vista needed at least 1gb to run smoothly (could be wrong though).
Peter
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512mb wont run vista correctly… it cant
my laptop doesn’t cause connection problems, vista is a much improvement over XP but only buy it on New equipment, not used.
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agree with dave also, i use vista/laptop with 4gb ram and it runs flawlessly, i like it, i use a different newly bought laptop in college and it has xp on it with 4gb ram the vista was taken off and it keeps crashing, seemingly there is too much ram for xp to run smoothly, the wonders of computing eh 😀
nik
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quote Dave Rowland:512mb wont run vista correctly… it cant
my laptop doesn’t cause connection problems, vista is a much improvement over XP but only buy it on New equipment, not used.
That’s interesting… I bought mine brand new.. it has 512 mb. If it can’t run properly then why do they sell it with Vista on it?!?
Any suggestions on what to do? Should I downgrade so, or is there something else I can do…. 😮 -
if you spend small amounts of money then you get what you are given.. however it is in recommended spec, but should be more.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window … ments.aspx
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quote Dave Rowland:if you spend small amounts of money then you get what you are given.. however it is in recommended spec, but should be more.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window … ments.aspx
I understand what you mean. I only had a small budget at the time. Funny enough a month after I bought it, I got an old desktop for free from a place that was upgrading all their computers. It has XP but works perfectly. I would not have bought the laptop if I knew I was going to get that one. At the moment I like using the laptop whilst sitting by the fire. It is freezing here at the moment!!!!
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Ebay for the laptop then for some xmas money
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quote Angelique Muller:If it can’t run properly then why do they sell it with Vista on it?!?
My thoughts too!
I am not doing any sign work on this laptop, so I assumed I didnt need a huge spec. 🙄 -
Harry, you dont need a high spec for "sign work" unless you are into a lot of graphic processing,
to run dual monitors you do need a graphics card that can support multiple displays, its not a windows thing,Peter
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Precisely buy a laptop for £300 and you get exactly that. I don’t mean to offend people but your buying a Lada and expecting a Rolls Royce.
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quote Gordon Forbes:Precisely buy a laptop for £300 and you get exactly that. I don’t mean to offend people but your buying a Lada and expecting a Rolls Royce.
Totally agree Gordon……I have a fully spec’ed system at the workshop….. I asked for something that I could use for word processing, doing accounts and surfing the net……I have Corel loaded but rarely use it…nobody at any point said that Vista needed 1-2 Gig…I foolishly believed that the seller would at least install the correct spec to run the operating system……is that too much of an ask these days?……the policy seems to be, if you don’t know…. you are fair game. Computer sales people are getting akin to dodgy s/h car sales people imo, I know more than the average joe public about computers and I have seen people who want the same processing power as I wanted in this laptop being sold systems that would run the space programme! The opportunity to hoodwink people is there and they take advantage of that.
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Harry
You could always invest in additional RAM – really cheap at the moment
I bought 4Gb of RAM for my son’s laptop that only had 512mb from new for less than £40 and he says it runs 10 times faster (possibly teenage exaggeration but it definitely made big improvements)
I used http://www.crucial.com/uk – it will scan your system while you are connected, confirm your system and the recommended levels of RAM you can upgrade to – Our IT guys recommend this site and buy all of our company upgrades here too. RAM ordered and arrived next day also !!
Harry
Just checked the crucial website and it looks like a Dell Inspiron 8600 can only take a max of 2Gb at a cost of around £30 per 1Gb module – But it should still improve how Vista is operating on your system …. worth scanning your system to find out how your system is currently set up
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Ok, Here are some other tips. This one was found on a Microsoft Forum.
"If you’ve been experiencing internet dropping, hanging, ect. on Vista, you’re
not alone. I was ready to throw the thing in the trash. I finally fixed it by
going to the Network and Sharing center, click the View Status on the
connection, click Properties and then uncheck the QoS Packet Scheduler, the
Internet Protocol Version 6, and both Link Layer Topology choices. Then click
OK, restart and enjoy your surfing! Hope this helps. Let me know."Possible other causes:
Anti-Virus such as Norton causing problems.3rd party firewall blocking or hampering the proper ports.
(Make a specific port exceptions and process exceptions for Netbios over TCP/IP traffic, and the services: SSDP and UPnP)IPv6 settings are wrong.
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Hi just saw this post but i was wondering and making sure you have loaded all the updates especially SP1 I think Vista is good and performs great after the service is installed SP2 is out in beta you will see the change in vista hang in vista is the way to go as the support for XP is going i have just come back from the Microsoft IT forum in Barcelona i have been brain wash by Microsoft’s development team
also make sure your router is nt loosing connection and u are not blaming the PC.
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quote Johnny Clingham:also make sure your router is nt loosing connection and u are not blaming the PC.
Tried two computers (one on Vista the other on XP) on the same website and lo and behold it does seem to be a router problem as they both hang. Any settings in the router that i can change?
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Hi
This looks like your line is dropping out what router u have what is the ISP.
Depending on the router sometimes if u turn the MTU down it may help to cure it and keeps the line up.
not all routers has this function.
it sound like u are quite away from telephone exchange if it is dropping of.
are u connecting over wireless or are u wired via the CAT5 into the ports on the back of your router -
I do find it odd that it is possible to buy a computer from a reputable source
that has less than the minimum amount of RAM required to run it properly.
If a Vista installed computer is sold with only 512mb RAM, then surely it is
not fit for purpose, and could be returned accordingly. But perhaps my mind is
fugged with beer.
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