Unidentified Network
Hi, Over the past few weeks at night I get no connectivity, forcing me to unplug modem, and router wait 15seconds replug ect ect, than it lets me connect for the rest of the night. BUT this past weekend I get a facebook virus i looked it up said it was just a spam virus that hides in your computer mainly just a nusence that spammed pornwebsites onto my desktop which i didnt click, cause of fear for more dmg, so I tried a system restore set back 5 days, when i last updated my computer, and virus is gone but now i cannot connect to internet. So system restore goes through, computer starts up and first thing i notice i get a ``unidentified network`` IPv4: is connected IPv6: says limited connection Network adapter has up to date drivers, working fine 1. I disconnected the ethernet cable from my PC and connected it to my laptop to make sure that the cable wasn't my problem. I disabled the WiFi adaptor on the laptop, and was able to connect to the network and internet using the ethernet cable. (ruling out the cable as my problem) 2. I reconnected the ethernet cable to my PC, disabled my LAN adaptor, re-enabled it, and watched the status go from 'Identifying. . .' to 'Unidentified Network'. So, I ran the network diagnostic tool, and it gave me three options . 'Automatically get new IP settings' which did not solve the problem. 'Reset your router' which also did not work. And 'reset the LAN adaptor' which didn't work either. 3. Starting to get desparate, I disabled Windows Firewall, reset my LAN adaptor, and I was still receiving the 'Unidentified Network' message. 4. Re-enabled firewall, changed network settings to Private, from Public (which it was defaulting me to), turned off all file sharing and reset the LAN adaptor again. Still got the ``Unidentified Network`` message. 5. Visually inspected my router, and noticed that the port that my PC was connected to IS indeed lit up, showing that it knew something was there. 6. Used the laptop to access the router's configurator, and did not see my PC as an active connection. So i went out and bought a new router, and i still says ``Unidentified Network`` Ran through all troubleshooting procedures. Finally stumbled on following suggestion in Vista Help: "Turn off the power-saving option in the network adapter's properties (wired network adapters only)" Checked out the adapter properties and power saving option was indeed turned on. Cleared the check box, and my home network magically appeared. (but it is still named "Unidentified Network" )
May 10th, 2010 11:31pm

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