I have just browsed through the network section here to see if anyone else hav had the same interesting situation as I have.After installing W7, everything wrked fine. Connection to my wireless network seemed fine. However using IE8 to go to fx www.microsoft.com returned an error very quickly (The page could not be loaded). Actally it was worryingly fast to come back with this error message. And all urls returned the same. After fumbling a little around, I tried connecting my standard VPN to work network and then suddenly, surpringsingly everything worked. I could reach all url's.Tried disconnecting VPN and pinging www.microsoft.com. The DNS resolution came through, but pinging timed out. After connecting VPN again ping works.... Hm... I upgraded my work PC belonging to my works domain, so maybe it has to go through my works security/policies/....??Today at work connecting imediately through my wired connections inside the company domain - still no browsing. Connect VPN inside work to work - it works?Why in h...., does anybody have an idea what this can be?Regards, jakob

Check your IP addresses. When not connected via VPN, do a ipconfig /all at the command prompt. You will see a lot of connections, but you will want to focus on the one that is bound to your actual physical adapter. Check your Internet Options. In IE8, go to Tools >> Internet Options. Click on the Connections tab followed by a click on the LAN settings button. Make sure you dont (or do, depending on your particular setup) have any proxy server information listed. If all of that is good, then try to do a DNS flush by typing ipconfig /flushdns followed by ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew.

HiOpen Internet options->Connections->LAN settings and uncheck Automatically detect settings check boxmicrosoft.com does not replay on ping requests and this is why you get ping timeout