Vista Networking Fix
January 26, 2009 – 9:49 pmI’ve been fighting with my new laptop for a couple weeks, trying to get the wireless networking to perform at anything resembling a reasonable speed. Wired networking has been fine the entire time. I’ve applied every fix I could think of, and that I could find on Google.
Today, while reading my livejournal friends page, I stumbled across mention that the Winsock still exists in Vista. I had assumed it was a thing of the past. So I immediately googled for instructions on resetting it in Vista, and found these instructions. I followed them, and rebooted, and lo and behold, my wireless network is performing at a reasonable speed, for the first time!
Thanks a lot, My Digital Life, for the instructions.
2 Responses to “Vista Networking Fix”
I had the same issue and completed these steps last night…worked great! Then today, the same issue again. Any trick to keep from having to do this all the time?
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Guth3 on Jan 29, 2009
I haven’t had the problem of it recurring… but that would make me suspicious that some other software on your computer is the cause. What antivirus are you running? And 3rd party firewalls?
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Utoxin on Jan 29, 2009