Vista will not access Microsoft

Posted: 01-26-2008, 10:54 AM
Four days ago, I purchased a brand new Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium
pre-installed. I registerd the MAC address on my wireless LAN (using a
Draytek Vigor 2600We router. I can reach quite a lot of websites either
through IE or Opera, but cannot reach Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Symantec and
others.
My laptop has 3Gb of RAM and an Intel core duo processor so it is more than
adequate.

I have never used Vista prior to this and have had absolutely no problems
with my former laptop (now defunct) and other visitors laptops using XP Pro.

It is most frustrating can you help please?

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BurrWalnut
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RE: Vista will not access Microsoft
Posted: 01-26-2008, 03:27 PM
Read about MTU settings, here http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/MTU.htm


"Maverick Scot" wrote:
> Four days ago, I purchased a brand new Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium
> pre-installed. I registerd the MAC address on my wireless LAN (using a
> Draytek Vigor 2600We router. I can reach quite a lot of websites either
> through IE or Opera, but cannot reach Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Symantec and
> others.
> My laptop has 3Gb of RAM and an Intel core duo processor so it is more than
> adequate.
>
> I have never used Vista prior to this and have had absolutely no problems
> with my former laptop (now defunct) and other visitors laptops using XP Pro.
>
> It is most frustrating can you help please?
>
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Maverick Scot
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RE: Vista will not access Microsoft
Posted: 01-26-2008, 04:26 PM
Thank you for the information, I will look into it an come back.

"BurrWalnut" wrote:
> Read about MTU settings, here http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/MTU.htm
>
>
> "Maverick Scot" wrote:
>
> > Four days ago, I purchased a brand new Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium
> > pre-installed. I registerd the MAC address on my wireless LAN (using a
> > Draytek Vigor 2600We router. I can reach quite a lot of websites either
> > through IE or Opera, but cannot reach Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Symantec and
> > others.
> > My laptop has 3Gb of RAM and an Intel core duo processor so it is more than
> > adequate.
> >
> > I have never used Vista prior to this and have had absolutely no problems
> > with my former laptop (now defunct) and other visitors laptops using XP Pro.
> >
> > It is most frustrating can you help please?
> >
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Maverick Scot
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RE: Vista will not access Microsoft
Posted: 01-28-2008, 12:27 PM
I have tried to tweakig the MTU, but this has not solved the problems.

"Maverick Scot" wrote:
> Thank you for the information, I will look into it an come back.
>
> "BurrWalnut" wrote:
>
> > Read about MTU settings, here http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/MTU.htm
> >
> >
> > "Maverick Scot" wrote:
> >
> > > Four days ago, I purchased a brand new Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium
> > > pre-installed. I registerd the MAC address on my wireless LAN (using a
> > > Draytek Vigor 2600We router. I can reach quite a lot of websites either
> > > through IE or Opera, but cannot reach Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Symantec and
> > > others.
> > > My laptop has 3Gb of RAM and an Intel core duo processor so it is more than
> > > adequate.
> > >
> > > I have never used Vista prior to this and have had absolutely no problems
> > > with my former laptop (now defunct) and other visitors laptops using XP Pro.
> > >
> > > It is most frustrating can you help please?
> > >
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Charlie
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Re: Vista will not access Microsoft
Posted: 01-26-2008, 05:50 PM
Check for new firmware for your router.
"Maverick Scot" <MaverickScot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Four days ago, I purchased a brand new Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium
> pre-installed. I registerd the MAC address on my wireless LAN (using a
> Draytek Vigor 2600We router. I can reach quite a lot of websites either
> through IE or Opera, but cannot reach Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Symantec
> and
> others.
> My laptop has 3Gb of RAM and an Intel core duo processor so it is more
> than
> adequate.
>
> I have never used Vista prior to this and have had absolutely no problems
> with my former laptop (now defunct) and other visitors laptops using XP
> Pro.
>
> It is most frustrating can you help please?
>

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Maverick Scot
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Re: Vista will not access Microsoft
Posted: 01-28-2008, 12:27 PM
Thank you, I will do that and come back

"Charlie" wrote:
> Check for new firmware for your router.
> "Maverick Scot" <MaverickScot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1D0B4950-B2F5-4DD8-8538-C7421C19BB0C@microsoft.com...
> > Four days ago, I purchased a brand new Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium
> > pre-installed. I registerd the MAC address on my wireless LAN (using a
> > Draytek Vigor 2600We router. I can reach quite a lot of websites either
> > through IE or Opera, but cannot reach Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Symantec
> > and
> > others.
> > My laptop has 3Gb of RAM and an Intel core duo processor so it is more
> > than
> > adequate.
> >
> > I have never used Vista prior to this and have had absolutely no problems
> > with my former laptop (now defunct) and other visitors laptops using XP
> > Pro.
> >
> > It is most frustrating can you help please?
> >
>
>
>
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scsa20
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Re: Vista will not access Microsoft
Posted: 01-26-2008, 07:18 PM

Try the following

1) Disable any firewalls, if this doesn't work, move o
2) If you're using wireless, disable the wireless radio and hook you
laptop directory to the router with the ethernet, if that works the
there's something wrong with your wireless adapter
3) If you don't have an extra ethernet cable or don't want to hook i
up via the ethernet or you did hooked it up via the ethernet and didn'
work, then disable the wireless security of your router and connect t
your wireless router without any security. If you're able to browse t
those sites then, then there's something wrong with your wireles
adapter
4) If either 2 or 3 works, try updating the drivers of your wireles
adapter, if either 2 or 3 doesn't work, try updaing the firmware of you
wireless router

Cheers

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Maverick Scot
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Re: Vista will not access Microsoft
Posted: 01-28-2008, 12:28 PM
Thank you, I am in the process of doing that and will come back

"scsa20" wrote:
>
> Try the following:
>
> 1) Disable any firewalls, if this doesn't work, move on
> 2) If you're using wireless, disable the wireless radio and hook your
> laptop directory to the router with the ethernet, if that works then
> there's something wrong with your wireless adapter.
> 3) If you don't have an extra ethernet cable or don't want to hook it
> up via the ethernet or you did hooked it up via the ethernet and didn't
> work, then disable the wireless security of your router and connect to
> your wireless router without any security. If you're able to browse to
> those sites then, then there's something wrong with your wireless
> adapter.
> 4) If either 2 or 3 works, try updating the drivers of your wireless
> adapter, if either 2 or 3 doesn't work, try updaing the firmware of your
> wireless router.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> --
> scsa20
>
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