That's interesting. The wifi chipset is Atheros 5007 and is B/G only
(laptop is probably ~6 years old now). The router is bang up-to-date so it
could be a similar problem. I have a newish (B/G/N) dongle and I will
send my son back to his place with that as a backup.
We HAVE now upgraded his laptop to Win7 and installed the latest drivers -
all is working well chez-moi, tomorrow he has to try back at his home.
Thanks for the advice
Jez
ps - Chris - the BT HomeHub has DNS changes completely blocked
On 23 March 2014 15:56, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >To the collective brains on this list: can you shed some light on this?
> >
> >I have a problem with a PC (running Vista - ugh) that can connect to
> >the wifi router and thence to the internet in my house, but in another
> >house it connects to the router but there is no onward internet
> >connection.
> >All other devices (phones, tablets etc) can connect fine in both
> >places. Both routers are running WPA2-PSK security. The wifi adaptor
> >has the latest driver installed.
> >And it's a fresh install of Vista (and all SPs and updates) because we
> >started from a very sluggish clogged-up laptop (a few years past its
> >best) - although previously it was connecting to the internet ok!
> >
> >My first thought was a DNS issue but manually setting DNS addresses
> >doesn't help.
> >
> >Any other brainwaves please?
> >
>
> I recently had the exact same problem, and it was due entirely to a
> 19th CenturyLink (19CL) WiFi hub. 19CL had set it up with two out of four
> handshake protocols shut off, both of which were for older wireless adapter
> chipsets such as the Intel BG2200. I bought an after market USB 802.11n
> wireless adapter and everything worked fine, until 19CL remotely
> reprogrammed the WiFi hub to block older operating systems and browsers.
>
> Be careful where you buy those wireless adapters. I bought one on
> eBay from China and it was bogus. Found the same item for less $$ at Fry's.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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