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I recently built myself a new PC at home, and opted to purchase a copy of Vista Ultimate for it, seeing as the OEM copies are only around £120 in the UK (versus £70-80 for XP Pro).

Now, Vista has been running fine. However, I was being puzzled by occasional, intermittent network access. Sometimes HTTP access would drop completely. Sometimes I'd be able to access the router and no more. Sometimes I wouldn't be able to ping. Sometimes just the AIM part of Trillian would drop out.

Just this morning, I booted up and could get nothing on the network at all. No router, no pings, even Vista's diagnostics thought the DNS servers weren't working. Until I turned off Vista's firewall. Now everything is running at full speed, with no problems.

So, anyone getting calls about folks running Vista with intermittent network problems... get them to turn the firewall off.