Difficulty Connecting to the Internet

Crossposted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing newsgroup.

Do the connection problems only affect Internet Explorer or do they affect
all applications (e.g., your Mail Client; Windows Update; instant
messengers; WMP)?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


CSTM wrote:

> I have had problems connecting to the internet since I purchased this
> laptop. This Dell is a little over a year old and runs Vista. I can't
> connect to the internet via a hardwire at the office. I used to be able
> to. I can connect wirelessly at home. This used to be a problem.
> Sometimes I can connect and sometimes I cannot connect when I am
> traveling.
> Sometimes I can connect wirelessly sometimes I cannot. Sometimes I can
> connect with a wire. Sometimes I cannot. I try to do automatic repairs
> but
> that doesn't seem to work anymore. I get as far as establishing a local
> connection but that is often it...

Forgive my ignorance. I don't know how to answer that question. All I know
is that there are many times when the computer is telling me I have a local
connection only but I am not connected to the internet. I don't use IM.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> Crossposted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing newsgroup.
>
> Do the connection problems only affect Internet Explorer or do they affect
> all applications (e.g., your Mail Client; Windows Update; instant
> messengers; WMP)?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>
>
> CSTM wrote:

>
>

>>> ...I try to do automatic repairs but

Explain what you mean by "automatic repairs," please?

Can you connect via hardwire at home, too?

Are you allowed to connect to the internet at the office? Are you posting
to this newsgroup from your home?

Are you able to check for Windows Updates manually at the office? ...at
home? See this tutorial:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial140.html
--
~PA Bear


CSTM wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance. I don't know how to answer that question. All I
> know
> is that there are many times when the computer is telling me I have a
> local
> connection only but I am not connected to the internet. I don't use IM.
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

"automatic repairs"
When I am having trouble connecting to the internet I will go to Network and
Sharing Center. I usually find a red x on the green line between the local
connection icon and the icon of the globe. I click the red x and it searchs
for a solution, I click one of the suggestions sometimes solving the problem
but not usually.

"Can you connect via hardwire at home, too?"
I have not tried to connect at home via a hardwire. I can connect at home
wirelessly although there have been times when I could not. Until recently,
I was able to connect at the office via wire.

"Are you posting to this newsgroup from your home?"
Posting wirelessly at home.

"Are you able to check for Windows Updates manually"
I can at home-how do I do that if you suggest I should?

"See this tutorial:"
I not quite sure what I should do here.
Thanks,
Bob

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

>
> Explain what you mean by "automatic repairs," please?
>

>
> Can you connect via hardwire at home, too?
>
> Are you allowed to connect to the internet at the office? Are you posting
> to this newsgroup from your home?
>
> Are you able to check for Windows Updates manually at the office? ...at
> home? See this tutorial:
> http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial140.html
> --
> ~PA Bear
>
>
> CSTM wrote:

>
>

> "Can you connect via hardwire at home, too?"

> I have not tried to connect at home via a hardwire.

Try it.

Check for Windows Updates at the office exactly as you do it when you're at
home. Read the tutorial I cited in my previous reply for instructions.


CSTM wrote:

> "automatic repairs"
> When I am having trouble connecting to the internet I will go to Network
> and
> Sharing Center. I usually find a red x on the green line between the
> local
> connection icon and the icon of the globe. I click the red x and it
> searchs
> for a solution, I click one of the suggestions sometimes solving the
> problem
> but not usually.
>
> "Can you connect via hardwire at home, too?"
> I have not tried to connect at home via a hardwire. I can connect at home
> wirelessly although there have been times when I could not. Until
> recently,
> I was able to connect at the office via wire.
>
> "Are you posting to this newsgroup from your home?"
> Posting wirelessly at home.
>
> "Are you able to check for Windows Updates manually"
> I can at home-how do I do that if you suggest I should?
>
> "See this tutorial:"
> I not quite sure what I should do here.
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>

I'll try tomorrow. Thanks for all your help.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

>
> Try it.
>
> Check for Windows Updates at the office exactly as you do it when you're at
> home. Read the tutorial I cited in my previous reply for instructions.
>
>
> CSTM wrote:

>
>