Vista Wireless Issues 'Local Only'

osaddictosaddict London, UK
edited February 2008 in Science & Tech
New lappy running vista home premium (as some of you will have already gathered from another thread in this forum earlier today)

The wireless connection seems really flaky - I'm 99% certain this is not due to the strength of the signal or some configuration on the router - at times when the lappy complains my psp and ds can both access the net.

Basically it says 'local only' intermittantly - disconnicting totally then reconnecting sometimes solves this, other times it seems to be dead for ages (think 20mins or something stupid like this) - despite it showing full bars for signals on the connections when it says 'local only'

I've googled this and seen its an issue with vista :/ - the suggestions were to change the power plan to performance and to remove ip v6... I just tried the performance power plan, and I was charging and it was working a treat for 30mins or so - took it off the power and logged off, logged back on and it worked, then about 2 mins after the 'local only' nonsense was back again :(

Anyone else experienced this and solved it?

(For the record ip v6 was greyed out for the wireless connection - so I'm not sure how to remove that...)

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2008
    See if you can find a WLAN manager app from the company that makes the card. Win32's WLAN app is sucky, and this is a known issue not just for Vista but for XP also.
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited February 2008
    This is really starting to f*ck me off now - last night it was poor and sketchy - this morning absolutly sweet fs - sittin in bed for 40 mins playing around with it - no connection what so ever :(

    All I can ascertain is that its a broadcom wireless card - looking @ the broadcom site there appears to be quite a few of them.

    What really bugs me - sitting next to the router its fine - picks up a connection with existing settings - move to another room and its dead the 'local only' nonsense. - however in the same room, or even the garden ffs the psp browser can get online fine!
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited February 2008
    I might try a knoppix CD in the laptop and see if I can get online with that - see if its vista being crap or the lappy or what
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited February 2008
    Hmm, it would seem that setting up wireless in knoppix is actually fairly complex :/ ... shame, as that would have helped to see if it was a vista problem or the laptop its self
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2008
    It's much easier in Ubuntu. :)
  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited February 2008
    I would try updating the router FW. Vista has a few more "requirements" it negotiates in the network login. If you can see other local devices , but have no internet it is usually FW on the router. Seen it 2 or 3 times.

    Also make sure the network is showing as private and not public. Sometimes when it marks it as public it locks it down too tight and no internet.
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited February 2008
    This has just really confused me - however it seems to be working now...

    First off it was working fine, then it decides not to work :( .... so based on the net reccomendations I untick IP V6 and I add some dns servers rather than get it to auto find them. - Still nothing.

    If I sit next to the bloody router it works! - If I go in the room next door (small house not like its far :p) it dies and gives me the local only nonsnse.

    I tried the Knoppix and it was a mare (but hey, I got a knoppix cd and dvd downloaded and burnt - been meaning to keep them handy for ages!)

    Searched the HP forums again thinking it must be due to the lappy -as the ds and psp can get connected to the router from miles away...

    I see the vista thing posted above, but the main PC is the same OS and that works fine... so I didnt mess with the router...

    In desperation (and something I perhaps should have tried earlier?!) I deleted the wireless card from device manager, AND ticked delete drivers... rebooted and vista installed the drivers and it was working again.... went next door... still working....... got cocky and I've been sitting in the garden for the last half an hour browsing :bigggrin: A couple of blips but nothing major... we shall see how it pans out.

    (Makes me very glad that my main pc is connected via Cat 5 thou - much more reliable and stable :D )
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited February 2008
    Edit: this sucks - turned lappy off, went back to it again, same old tricks, even after deleting it and getting vista to reinstall the drivers again :(:(:(
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