Vista network problems
January 24th, 2008Type these words into Google and you quickly see there’s plenty of problems with networking and Vista. My own particular problem drives me crazy as it seems there’s no fix apart from manually resetting the network adapter every time it drops the connection.
It doesn’t happen straight away, but after some time (often after the computer has been woken from sleep) the network icon says I only have ‘Local connection’, not local and internet. Even this isn’t strictly true since I cannot connect to my router, I actually have no connection at all.
If I right click the icon and select ‘Diagnose and repair’ to open the fancy ‘Vista Network Diagnostics And Troubleshooting tool’ it suggests this.
After resetting the network adapter everything works fine again every time. This sort of bug is very irritating, even more so for my girlfriend who is not so technical ;-).
I can hardly believe Vista shipped with so many network issues that still haven’t been resolved. Hopefully the soon to be available Service Pack 1 will fix this but I’m not holding my breath.
