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Hello. I've seen other posts like this, but no answers that I could use. We

have had our internet connection working with a wireless router and two

Windows XP machines for a while. We just bought a Windows Vista machine and

it can't open web pages.



We can ping web sites, and even download updates for Norton and Windows

Updates. But when we open a browser to any URL, the "page can't be

displayed." I tried it wireless to the router, wired to the router, and

straight to the cable modem. Same results. I checked that the LAN settings

are on "automatically detect settings." I also updated the firmware on the

router to the latest version on the Linksys website.



We have comcast cable internet and a Linksys WRT54G router.



Any ideas? Thanks.


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"cymbalblade" <cymbalblade@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

What personal firewall are you using? Have you dropped the FW on the

computer to see what happens?



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"cymbalblade" <cymbalblade@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

run the Wizard at the router web site, to set your ISP log in and set your

wireless SIDD and Wap.



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Ian



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cymbalblade;406517 Wrote:

Hi Cymbalblade



You might try this to see if it is a TCP/IP Auto Tuning issue. This i

a cause of a lot of connection and other network problems



www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72308-auto-tuning-tcp-ip-receive-level.htm" >www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72308-auto-tuning-tcp-ip-receive-level.htm



Shaw



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Hi,



I've recently had a similar problem: the connection was there, pings etc.

worked. Strangely I could get email and updates but not Internet (with any

browser) or IM.



I was using Norton Internet Security 2006. Turning off the firewall made no

difference. Turning off the entire suite allowed access. On the Symantec

site it recommended turning off the suite then downloading (for free)

Internet Security 2007. I did this and bingo! all access again.



I guess that an update for Norton (2006) caused the problem.



Regards

Kevin



"brink" wrote:

Yep, Norton Internet Security was the problem. I had attempted to turn off my

firewalls, and succeeded at turning off Windows firewall. But every time I

tried to open Norton Internet Security it said something like "Can't open

this Norton product. Please restart your computer."



Somewhere online I found a link to Symantec's removal tool, which removes

all Symantec/Norton tools from your computer. Strange that they need to offer

such a tool. I used it, Norton Internet Security went away, and now I have

internet access.



Thanks all.





"Kevin Brewer" wrote:

Cymbalblade and Kevin,



Glad to hear you are back. Yet another issue with Norton.



Shawn





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I have now got rid of Norton alltogether. The 2007 version really played up

- loads of error messages etc. (although at least I had Internet access).



After junking it and putting on ZoneAlarm my PC became so much faster!



Kev



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