Strange problem with my internet connection in Vista – Solved!
A small note! I’ve had no problems after I did this. And remember, if you experience any trouble after applying this solution, you can simply change it back again. Good luck, and feel free to contact me.
I’ve had problems with my connections in Vista for quite a while now, and I think i finaly have found the solution. My problem was that I lost the connection after a while without really knowing why. My xp-laptop were still online. Anyway, after discovering that my linksys router may not support DHCP BROADCAST flag, i found a solution from Microsoft on how to disable this function in Vista. So far my connection have been stable after adding the DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToogle
So, here is how you do it.
1. Click Start
, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then click regedit in the Programs list.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{GUID}
In this registry path, click the (GUID) subkey that corresponds to the network adapter that is connected to the network.
If you don’t know wich one of those cryptic {GUID} to select, just find the one that has got an IP address. (se screenshot below)
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD (32-bit) Value.
4. In the New Value #1 box, type DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
7. Close Registry Editor.
If you are using both wireless and regular connection, you’ll need to add DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle to both.
100 Comments » Comment or Ping
Samaras
Cool!
Jun 20th, 2007
Steen
Thanks for sharing. I’ll try it and see if it works for me too.
Jul 19th, 2007
admin
I hope it does!
Jul 19th, 2007
Jim
This fix did not work for me. My Vista machine always comes up with network connection failed, but then connects when I force it to repair the IP address.
Is it because my 4 year old router is just too old? Lynksys BEFSR41 V2.
Thanks.
Jul 23rd, 2007
admin
That could be the case. I would contact Linksys and ask them, but I think a few things have changed in Vista when it comes to network connections compared to XP.
PS! You could also try to update the router’s firmware if possible.
Jul 23rd, 2007
gksbnrgqgh
Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! aljqerdrmi
Aug 3rd, 2007
Halu
Nice
Aug 26th, 2007
Vincent Clement
I’m not buying into the whole “my router is just too old” argument. Networking has been around for some time now and is based on open standards. One shouldn’t have to buy a new router just to make their internet connection work with a new OS. The OS should be adapted to work properly with open standards.
If the TCP/IP stack worked in XP, then at the very least, Microsoft should have included some form of backward-compatibility or behaviour in the new TCP/IP stack. Instead we get a TCP/IP stack that works great for some, works sometime for some, and doesn’t work at all for others.
I’ve checked out many sites and they all have different solutions. That’s not a good sign.
Oct 22nd, 2007
admin
I can understand that you are sceptic. This information presented here is from Microsoft. It worked for me, and therefor I present this possible solution. I’ve used this “fix” now for 7-8 months without any problems at all.
Oct 24th, 2007
Peter Aidoo
My problem is that the laptop crashes like every ten mins unless I stop the ICS service. i can still connect to the net but having to stop the service before I can work is getting to be annoying. was this a symptom of the problems you were having.
Feb 5th, 2008
Fong
Thank you for your discovery. I just solved my Vsta connectivity issue by following your steps. My router is Belkin.
FYI -Microsoft also published the resolution in September 2007 on its support site – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233
Mar 5th, 2008
Kstar
This is the only place on the net where I’ve seen how to solve this problem. I tried it and so far it seems to be working. Thanks!
Mar 17th, 2008
admin
I’m very glad the solution works for you guys! Greetings from the easter mountains in Norway.
Mar 21st, 2008
Scott Mc.
Thanks for the help. I hope this helps as this has been so darn aggrivating. As a web develpoer I am online all day, and I never know when Vista isgoing to take nap. The only way I have been able to get my conncection restored is to stop everything, I usually have about 15 windows open, and restart. What a pain!!
Thanks again.
Mar 31st, 2008
Emma Bradwell
Thank you, I was getting so frustrated, I tried your solution yesterday and got instant success.
May 12th, 2008
Pete Mac
Looks like i’m fixed…. most excellent… sit back and look smug! Thanks
Jun 19th, 2008
.s1
Do you have to reboot your machine for this to work? Seems when the second machine, connected to this router connects to the internet it kills mine… or leaving the net running for long periods of time ( even after this update w/o out reboot still) still kills my net. need i reboot first for this setting to take effect? i also saw this as well :
“MORE INFORMATION
If you know the router or the non-Microsoft DHCP server does not support the DHCP BROADCAST flag, you can set the following registry entry as follows instead of using the DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle registry key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{GUID}
Value name: DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag
Value type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0
Note A data value of 0 disables this registry entry. You can use this registry entry to prevent Windows Vista from using the DHCP BROADCAST flag. After you set this registry entry, Windows Vista never uses the DHCP BROADCAST flag.”
Jun 28th, 2008
admin
Thanks Pete!
Jun 29th, 2008
admin
Hi there .s1
I would recomend rebooting the computer. That’s always a good idea when dealing with windows.
The problem regarding only beeing able to have one computer online is new to me.
Jun 29th, 2008
admin
Nice I could help Emma
Jun 29th, 2008
Justin
Another reason that this happens is because of Zone Alarm. I had two vista machines with the same problem, uninstalled ZA and the problem is gone on both.
Jul 3rd, 2008
.s1
well i tried this fix and the microsoft fix i listed, no dice
after a bit . still lose internet randomly. :shrug: using an nforce networking card, verizon FIOS router , and vista home premium.
Jul 5th, 2008
admin
I have to admint, I’m not familiar with that router. Are you using wireless or wired connection?
I would try using another router somewhere else to see if the problem is only connected to your router or any router.
Good Luck. Keep me posted
Jul 5th, 2008
.s1
well problem is this router has a coax going to it… i dont know of any other routers with coax insert… :s im wired btw, both pc’s are.
Jul 6th, 2008
Nicholas
Skal prøve en tid nå.. håper det hjalp…. hvis det gjorde det, er jeg ekstra kry for at det var en norsk en online som hjalp med dette kjipe problemet som har hjemsøkt meg xD
Jul 7th, 2008
Nicholas
IT DIDNT WORK!
Jul 7th, 2008
admin
Hei Nicholas
Det var leit at det ikke fungerte. Da er problemet et annet enn hva jeg hadde.
Gjelder problemet kun mot en spesifikk trådløs ruter eller gjelder det alle nettverk du er tilkoblet?
Cato
Jul 9th, 2008
miboy
Hi , i have come here searching for a solution for a strange problem. I read all you have given but i dont understand what dhcp stuff is. Iam posting my problem and request you to reply asap.
I have dual operating systems on my computer. xpsp2 an vista sp1. The problem is with my internet connection in vista. Suddenly i see that the network connection icon on the task bar in vista shows no network connection. In order to get that connection right, i have to log into xp first then vista. every time i have to connect to internet in vista i have to temporarily start xp. Its very frustrating and my customer service is a freaking fake of expertise making mockery of the whole process.
help me
Jul 12th, 2008
admin
Hi miboy
It does sounds a bit like my problem. Have you tried my solution? It can be reversed if necessary, so it’s safe to try.
DHCP is a protocol used by networked devices (clients) to obtain the parameters necessary for operation in an Internet Protocol network. (WIKI) It handles IP adresses for computers within a network. This is handled by your router who’s got a DHCP-server. In this case the router is most likely not fully compatible with Vista, so therefore you need to turn of DHCP broadcast flag in Vista.
Please let me know how it works out.
Jul 16th, 2008
Retahn
You are a GODSEND! I’ve been having this problem for months and every time I tried to explain it to someone they looked at me like I was crazy! Go Scandinavians! My favourite guild master ever was Swedish ^^
Jul 21st, 2008
admin
Great I could help Retahn. Just make sure you know I’m norwegian!
Jul 27th, 2008
Socratestes
Brilliant! It’s works. After months of cursing Ballmer. U D man. Give yourself three pay raises!.
Jul 28th, 2008
.s1
Still no avail for me, :s
Aug 15th, 2008
Sky
Thanks this is what i’ve been needing. I used to go to the internet and browse tons of sites then when i went to the site i really wanted to go to the most (caw.ws, at least their forum page) my computer would drop the routers signle like a bad habit After a max of 5 minutes. But fixed now so thanks again.
Sep 7th, 2008
Nikki
I tried this because I’m having the same problems and I had to restore my computer because it did not work for me but instead change my settings in the reg. still looking for answers to this problem….So, does anyone know if you can take Vista off the computer and put Windows XP onto it?
Sep 18th, 2008
DK
tried but no luck yet though still haven’t closed everything down or rebooted…
but anyone have a comment on the difference between step 5 on the solution here and the solution on the MS support site. here it says “DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle” but MS says “DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle” (Disable vs Enable)?
Oct 7th, 2008
DK
Anyone have a comment about the difference in step 5 with the solution posted here and the solution posted at the MS support website; i.e here says “DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle” but MS says “DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle” (Disable vs Enable)? Is one correct/better than the other or should they both work?
Oct 7th, 2008
KE
DK, for me at least, both works (I set both when I found the link to the MS page). I don’t know the difference either, I just tried both at once.
Yesterday I updated Vista and boom – DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle had been deleted and DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle had been set to 1. Another funny thing is that when I had lost Internet connection, due to this update, Firefox were able to restore it without rebooting. IE was open but didn’t find Internet connection even after Firefox had enabled it. Closing and starting IE again worked. Doesn’t matter as I prefer Firefox anyway
Oct 13th, 2008
KE
Sorry, a little copy and paste error early in the morning… The Vista update changed DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag to 1 and deleted DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle. It had kept DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle with value 1.
Anyone know how to protect these register entries from being deleted or changed by Vista update? For now I just exported a .reg file.
Oct 13th, 2008
CD
Didn’t work for me,infact its got worse,now i’m having page load error for most sites…can’t open google or yahoo. I wonder if that will be permanently fixed before the next millenium.
Oct 15th, 2008
BS
Thanks for taking the trouble to post this. I have tried this fix and keep my fingers crossed it works!!! It has been a real pain for months! So far so good!
Nov 4th, 2008
jclax08
I am having this issue-i think…
3 days ago I lost the ability to actually connect to the internet after uninstalling Norton 360 because the subscription was up. I found that Norton had not been completely removed for some reason. There is a Norton/Symantec uninstaller program that fixed the issue, or so it seemed. Things were going well until now…
My computer suddenly lost the wireless signal today and upon reconnection it says that I am “currently connected to an unidentified network(archer wireless)” and the access is “local only”. I cannot get any internet connection whether through Ethernet or wireless.
Upon calling the laptop manufacturer, they were no help; they basically made me restart my computer and asked if the wireless was turned on on my computer. Basically just treating me like an idiot and left me hanging with no fix.
This brings me to where I am now. I have done everything from restore, restarts, reinstalling the wireless card and whatever other advice I could find online. This advice/fix you provided seemed like it would do the trick but I do not appear to have an IP address in any of the {GUIDES}’s. It instead shows an IP of 0.0.0.0 within the appropriate section of Registry Editor. However I see that I do have an IP of 69.254.219.50 in the ConfigFree connection wizard.
I did not want to move any further with altering the registry and running the risk of causing serious damage. Does anyone have a similar situation or know what I should do?
Dec 12th, 2008
Eric
This worked for me
I had the same “Local only” access problems with my Vista Home Premium, but it is now working fine after several days of trying various things including suggestions in this forum thread. The problem started for me when I uninstalled Norton Security 2007 to install a competitor’s product. I got tired of Norton Internet Security’s flaky issues with Vista, like LiveUpdate failing to download updated virus defs. I used “Programs and Features” from the Control Panel to uninstall Norton IS, which seemed to go smoothly–I saw no errors, and when I returned to Programs and Features, the product was removed from the list. However, after installing the competitor product (a top pick in Sept 2007’s Consumer Reports), I was locked into “Local only” access for both my wireless and wired connection.
What finally worked was the recommendation 4 days later from the new security vendor’s support organization:
I have checked the system information log you sent us and found that you still have components of Norton on the computer. This could be the cause of the problem.
Kindly run the Norton uninstall to remove the remaining components of it.
For the instructions on how to download and run the Norton uninstaller, please click on this link:
http://esupport.trendmicro.com/support/viewxml.do?ContentID=EN-1034185&id=EN-1034185
You need this Norton Removal Tool to fully uninstall the product. I soon as I ran it, my connection went back to “Local and Internet.” Hope this might help some in this forum who had the same issue due to a firewall/security product that perhaps they tried to uninstall or remove but registry entries and other traces of the product still left hooks in Vista that prevented the system from connecting to the internet.
Dec 22nd, 2008
phill
i uninstalled norton 360 and can no longer connect to internet with pc but can wirelessly with laptop. this has worked for me brilliant thank you. i have spent about 6 hours sorting this and finally after 5 minutes internet restored. best regards and thanks again
Dec 30th, 2008
Tey Secosana
hi. i am really not techo geek and computers are not my cup of tea. i really need your help guys.
i am also experiencing weird stuffs regarding my vista home premium.
i always click on links included on the sites i usually visit and i always notice that everytime i close a link, the source page (the page where i click on the link) would stop working and vista would flag the message “an internet connection has stop working options: check for online solution to restart the program or restart the program”.
this is causing me a lot of time since all of the pages and links i opened are affected and vista would close them all.
another thing is that, whenever i close a window, that window will not disappear and would remail there as a blank page.
is there a fix on these? please advise.
Jan 3rd, 2009
Gena
Hi, My computer is an HP vista new and I can not log onto the internet. I just get the local setting. My friend told me that she had the same problem. has anyone had this problem and what did they do?
Jan 12th, 2009
Frooties
Hi, I have a SONY VAIO 18″ laptop that runs on Vista home. My problem is, when I start up the computer it usually connects to the router/internet within 1-2 minutes but after 3 minutes it disconnects and takes anywhere from 5-15 minutes on top to reconnect and once reconnected after 40min-2 hours it just decides to disconnect although it shows me that I have a connection. If I try reaching the router or pinging outside I get no response. Can anyone help me??? I’ve been trying to work this one out for almost a year!
Jan 20th, 2009
Al
Gena,
I had exactly the same problem with my HP – tech support even had me send a brand new unit back claiming it was defective. The problem turned out to be the way Vista connects to my router. You can check it out in Microsoft’s knowledge base at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233
Once I did what is suggested there, my problem went away.
Good luck. I know how frustrated this can be.
Jan 21st, 2009
Lost In Vista
Thanks for this solution. I have been getting lost connections for a while now on Vista, and at first I thought that it was my ISP playing up. Then I thought the router – I must have rebooted and reverted to factory settings a million times now. But it seems that Vista was just crashing on me. Great. Oh well. Everything seems to be working OK at the moment, touch wood.
Jan 30th, 2009
Lost In Vista
Update – problem has recurred, above solution failed on my Vista Home edition.
Jan 30th, 2009
sky liu
If you are using zonealarm, try removing it (not just exit the program)
-> The easiest way to remove zonealarm completely is first starting vista in SAFE MODE and then using the un-install program that come with zonealarm to remove it.
I did this back in October, ‘08 and since then my vista laptop has worked perfectly.
Feb 16th, 2009
Neil Albert
Applied fix a couple of hours ago after I had tried everthing else
that I could think of. My computer had needed rebooting every 20min.
Problem appears to have immediately dissappeared
Thanks so much!
Feb 20th, 2009
Neil Albert
Problem has been occurring now ata substantially
lower frequency than prior to setting the DHCL DisableBroadcastFlag.
I notice that there is another flag called something like DHCPForceBroadcastFlag
which was set to 1 (as it is in the screenshot of the original solution.
I changed this Registry entry to have a value of 0, and so far, I am still connecting.
Does anyone know the effects of this oter flag. It would seem
that if you didn’t want the network card to operate in Broadcast mode
that you would not want to force the flag either.
Feb 22nd, 2009
hopeful
This is a great site, and I enjoyed reading and trying all the solutions posted here. Thanks to all who contributed. Here’s my story, which I hope someone can use.
I have had Vista Ultimate for 11 months, without problems. I use a Linksys BEFSR41 router, and cable modem, and Zone Alarm (ZA), Proxomitron, all of which allowed uninterrupted service for 2 PC’s. Recently, I noticed that the ZA query message of Vista wishing to act as server, was not appearing. However, I was still able to connect to the net via Firefox without problem. Then, during an AVG antivirus scan of a CD I had received, my internet connection was apparently lost, and I was unable to re-establish internet connection. After using my other PC to do a Google search for Vista connection problems, I ended up here.
I followed the instructions posted here by Fong:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233
without success. Then I tried the solution Cato Haukeland posted at the top of the page, also without success. Of course, I rebooted each time a change was made. Then I disconnected the modem and router, allowing them to reset, but still no internet connection.
Finally, I tried removing Zone Alarm, as suggested by sky liu. I was finally able to connect again. I also have reinstalled ZA, which was the version available today, retested my connections, and everything seems to be working again. Thanks again to all who contributed here.
Feb 25th, 2009
64
If I have Vista 64-bit, am I supposed to QWORD (64-bit) Value instead of DWORD (32-bit) Value?
Mar 15th, 2009
admin
to: 64.
Yes, that would be correct. Try and see. This is fully reversible if it doesn’t work.
Mar 16th, 2009
Michael
Hey, I turned off all the power saving properties already plus doing what you recommanded. it worked for my external wireless adapter ~
But the built-in one still turns off randomly ~ why’s that?
Mar 16th, 2009
Michael
Hello Cato, you are awsome. Now the problem is completely solved.
Mar 17th, 2009
Clivity
BRILLIANT
been 8 hours now and no drops since your reg tweak!
Hope like hell it holds but man if this works you should be workin for M$!
Mar 24th, 2009
Mike
Thanks im with sky and it’s a pain in the a***! will let you know if it goes according to plan. Admin please can you e-mail me so i have a record of this site/forum??
Thnks : D
Mar 27th, 2009
abeyvista
Thanks so much for this. I am stunned at your wizardry! I followed this post and it worked for me. You can imagine, I just bought a new Sony Laptop (64 bit) with windows vista yesterday, only to get home and find the new laptop messing my network up. Once it connects, every other winxp systems on the network disconnects. I had to reboot the router each time. But now, I am glad.
Thanks again and again.
Mar 28th, 2009
fcbarcelona
Hello, at the end of your solution you say that if you are using both a wired and wireless connection you should add DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle to both. How would I go about doing that?
Thanks!
Mar 31st, 2009
Michele
Hi. This worked for me last year. Then I was on a landline connection for a couple of months. Now I’m trying to get back on wireless at a different location and this isn’t working. Help!
Apr 2nd, 2009
Allen
It worked for me too. thanks
Apr 4th, 2009
janoah
i tried this patch and i hope it works. do u know if vist will work perfect with a $500 apple router
Apr 16th, 2009
Steve
For what it’s worth I was having the same connection problems as described by lots of other people…dropped connections, weak signal on a new HP laptop on a Linksys router. Tried everything including this DHCP flag thing. I finally popped off the wireless card panel and found the primary antenna wire loose due to a bent connector collar. It connected enough to get a weak signal or through the secondary, and I think something about Vista’s wireless management system would force the drop when the signal got too weak (or alternatively could have been physically losing contact). Bent the collar back and snapped it securely on to the card and problem solved, even after reversing out all the OS/driver tweaks. I’m sure this isn’t the story for everyone, but make sure you don’t check it last like I did.
Apr 21st, 2009
Asad
What is this for?
Because I am connected with a wire to my (fairly new) wireless router.
I have just baught this brand new computer with Vista. However when it goes into stand-bye, i get disconnected from the internet connection and it reconnects automatically after stand bye.
Is this thing supposed to fix my problem?
BTW try email me rather than post in here.
Apr 22nd, 2009
Jason
Absolutely beautiful Mr. Haukeland. My problem is solved. As before mentioned it’s not the Linksys router, circa 2001, it’s Vista. Thank you posting this =)
Apr 24th, 2009
Vlad the Impaler
The weird thing with me is that it WAS working and all of a sudden decided to go into intermittent failure mode. I put up with it for a few days, and even downloaded Network Magic (which is great for organization and setting up a network, but crap as a troubleshooting tool) hoping that could solve it, but all it does is what I already know and have done.
Apr 25th, 2009
Vlad the Impaler
NOT solved, actually. I think the answer will eventually be to upgrade my OS to Windows XP.
Apr 25th, 2009
Mike
In my case there where 2 entries already there.
DhcpConnDisableBcastFlagToggle set value 1
DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle set value 1
I set the Enable flag value to 0. Rebooted … 2 days and counting and no random disconnects. Or in my case it was telling me I lost HTTP connection.
Thank you.
Apr 27th, 2009
Testing Your Fix
Check to see if your fix fixes my computer.
May 9th, 2009
Ricardo
It didn’t work. The PC loses HTTP browser connections only. Other applications, including browsers within Virtual PC, continue to work. Thanks anyway
May 10th, 2009
Testing Your Fix
It did not work for me either. I am having the same problem as Ricardo.
May 11th, 2009
Ricardo
Problem Solved!! I had this problem for months…
I had ZoneAlarm installed. I thought that was a great idea. Wrong in this case. I deactivated ZoneAlarm, but this didn’t do the trick. You have to uninstall it completely and reboot. Since Yesterday, no more problems! Also, browsing works much faster. Even seemingly unrelated sleep/hibernate problems were solved!
Even if it is not ZoneAlarm, your firewall software could be at fault here. Try getting rid of it; Vista has its own firewall anyway
I hope this helps some folks out there…
May 12th, 2009
KAREN
Hi, I have a sony windows vista . My problem is I cannot get on the internet unless I restart my computer and unplug the power cord to the modem. can you help?
May 14th, 2009
Mohit
Hi
I just tried the steps mentioned above but I have a small confusion at the step
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{GUID}
In this registry path, click the (GUID) subkey that corresponds to the network adapter that is connected to the network.
There are 4 sub folder within interface folder. So do i have to do this step in each folder or just one of the folders. Even in your screen shot we can see three folders under interfaces.
May 22nd, 2009
admin
Each one of the subfolders represents a connection. One could be your ethernet connection, another would be the wireless one.
As explained, please look for the folder were you can find your IP adress. That’s the one you would want to change. Good luck!
May 22nd, 2009
dave
Fantastic! This has been driving me crazy for months. It seems my connection was reliable only if I was actively browsing, but if the browser was inactive for a while the connection would be dropped. But this fixed it for me.
May 23rd, 2009
Mohit
Hi
Thanks for your reply.
I finally found the right folder with the ip address and performed all the steps mentioned above but still my computer is not able to find the wifi network within my house.
Is there something else which I can do
May 23rd, 2009
Sam
I’ve had this problem for over a year now and thought it was the network adapter in the laptop. Your fix worked like a charm.
Thank you so much!!
May 26th, 2009
antony
well i normally get disconnected within 5 minutes- 1hr. recently 5 minutes since that last 5 restarts. but everything seems to be going well. thanks so much, i also turned the “allow windows to turn this device off” option off under powermanagement in device manager. hope this helps every one else
May 26th, 2009
Antony
awww its not working. i thought it was working but then i lost internet after about 1hr 40. i have avg anivirus free and zone alarm firewall free. i also watch alot of internet tv so does this some how overload my cache. Also only my vista computer is affected by this the other 2 xp computer work fine. please really need a solution to this as it gets hugely anoying having to restart, oh one more thing when i lose connection i only lose connection to my internet browsers. this mean things like online games still work like battle field 2, or movies that are loading inside the browsers will still continue to load. the only thing that is affected is that i cannnot go to other pages and load them.
my internet icon still says that it is connected to the internet but i can only load what has already started to load of play games.. wich gets anoying.
May 28th, 2009
jeg2002uk
takk skal du ha (hope this is right)
This has worked for me, i have had this problem for over 18 months now and have been blaming vigin media, as reseting my modem and router usually cured the problem.
You as a Star man thanks a lot
John.
Jun 1st, 2009
admin
jeg2002uk: Perfect norwegian
Jun 2nd, 2009
chloe
do i have to restart my labtop afterward?
Jun 3rd, 2009
chloe
it didn’t work???
Jun 3rd, 2009
Tony
This did not work for me. There’s something missing. Also set the
DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag to zero if it’s there. Otherwise, forcing the broadcast flag will fight the toggle mentioned in this post. Change both keys. That’s what worked for me.
Jun 7th, 2009
Jason
Well I keep having to diagnose the problem and reset the local area adapter that give me back my internet nothing seems to help anyone got a fix for that lol. Please email me at ecv2000@aol.com its been driving me nuts for over 9 months…
Jun 8th, 2009
BryanH
I’m not sure if my issue is the same or not, but thought I’d try just in case.
My wife got a new laptop and we were able to connect it with no problem, however, every time it goes to sleep we are not able to get online. The connection still shows that we are connected and that the signal strength is excellent, but nothing happens. If we disconnect and reconnect to our same network – it will work again. It is very annoying, any ideas?
Thank you!
Jun 8th, 2009
Warlondo
Wow… dude I’ve been having this problem with my mom’s Lenovo SL500 for months now, and this really helped! Great! it finally connects while booting up right away.
Awesome! You kick arse!
Jun 10th, 2009
Killer
The exception in this post was already in my registry. However I did find that while looking into the tcpip settings in the registry some of the values were wrong. Specifically there was no SubnetMask line and the info that should have been in the SNM line was input at the DHCPServer line. I corrected the values and put in a SNM line with the correct values. Now it’s wait and see time. =)
Jun 12th, 2009
Z Stringer
Hello – many thanks for your solution. I had an older wireless networking card, Level1 WNC-0301 which is supposed to be compatible with Vista, but it turned out my hardware level was too old. Went out and bought a TrendNet TEW-423PI which has “Vista certified” on the box. Still didn’t work. Found your article and voila everything works! Thank you thank you thank you.
You would think Microsoft would have sent out a patch – they’re smart people right? Right? BTW my router is a Linksys Wireless G model.
Jun 15th, 2009
Gordon
I tried DhcpConnEnableBcastFlag setting first but disconnecting still happen sometime. Now I deleted toggle and set the DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag to 0 just as Microsoft suggested and it seems to work better now.
Jun 18th, 2009
shaun
One glitch for me… i click on th dhcpServer file with my ip address as instructed, then go to edit > new > (the whole submenu here is greyed out, not allowing me to choose DWORD (32bit) Value. how do i get access, i’m logged on as administrator.
thanks,
Jun 20th, 2009
Daryl
Thank you. I have had my new HP laptop since June 8th, 2009, and have been so frustrated with the problem with the adaptor that I was ready to return the machine. Finding your site and this solution has been fantastic!
Jun 21st, 2009
Jeffrey Boateng
I just got a new compaq laptop with Vista Home edition preloaded on it. I can connect to both Lan and wireless connections but after 15 min my internet stops working. The only way to get back on the internet is to restart my computer. I tried your solution but it didn’t help at all. What sorta of worked for me was downloading Unbuntu linux 8.04 and allowing it to install inside windows vista. Now I use my wired internet connection in linux to dowload programs to a flash drive and then switch over to widows vista. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get my wireless to work in linux.
Jun 29th, 2009
CBJONES
Bad news guys…iI don’t believe it’s the routers’ fault at all.
I have a brand new HP laptop which follows me everywhere…I lose internet connections everywhere..home, office, hotel. My computer loses it’s settings (Gateway and probably others…still testing).
I have a version of Norton on my computer which restores default internet settings…on reboot, I am back up and running with proper settings. I am no expert so it’s taking me a while to figure this out…but I have ruled out the wireless router as the culprit…
I don’t know what changes, when or why…trying to resolve that…
Jul 2nd, 2009
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