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[jarad.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

...or maybe they should correctly configure the firewall.
Just a thought.

[jarad.livejournal.com]

A firewall with default settings should not cause connection problems. Especially random ones.

[ghostdandp.livejournal.com]

Been running Vista Enterprise for a few weeks, haven't seen this issue. Probably a software conflict with something you are running. Might even be a LSP issue.

[jecook]

The Intarweb could also be sucking.

Cox (a semi-national cable provider in the US) had a rather large section of their net drop out a day or three ago. (IIRC, it was a multi-state outage), and DNS seems to be running awfully slow this morning.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

and internet connections shouldn't drop out, routers shouldn't freeze up and need resetting; and humans should not be making war on each other. Welcome to reality.

[jynx.livejournal.com]

We've been running Vista Ent. or Business (can't remember) since the final beta came out and it's been fine with out network - which is finiky as all hell. I agree, maybe it's a software conflict?

[vortex.livejournal.com]

Someone on my friends list posted about the same issue last week, un-fortunately, I can't remember who it was.

Vista does ship with Outbound firewall features turned off (now), maybe yours came from the first batch...

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad i don't have to support vista. period. no training on it either.

[anamacha.livejournal.com]

maybe not ... but "woulda coulda shoulda" gets one nowhere. Better to deal with what IS ... and avoid problems like M$ in the first place.