I have had this same problem after owning a Studio XPS 64-bit (wired with Bountiful router). Everything was fine untill this past Sunday, Norton did a Live Update. BINGO!!! Local acces only, limited connectivity, unidentified network. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I have2 laptops in the house andthey connected fine. I called Dell, Microsoft, Bountiful and even my ISP. Nobody had a clue. I logged onto this forum and tried everything everyone was saying to try (except throwing the computer against a brick wall and selling it on eBay). The last thing I did was to go to the device manager and right click on the network card adapter, click properties, go to power management and uncheck all of the boxes. Close out everything and re-boot. BINGO BANGO!!! Hellow internet!!! We love using Vista but this problem was very annoying to say the least. It took me 2 days to get it right but it seems to be back to normall now and I am posting this using my desk top. I re-installed Norton 360 because I just don't like haveing no protection. If it happens again, at least I will know a little more on how to fix it next time. I hope this helps someone out there. Good Luck!!! Microsoft, if you are reading these forums: "Just fix it" Read up on how to "Just fix it" Tell the peeps who spend thier hard earned money to "Just fix it"

Why can't Vista obtain a proper IP address when XP could obtain a propper IP address?

thanks -- after about 15 wasted hours trying to fix this, I uninstalled Norton 360 and my wireless internet access connetions were solved

Well, after 4 days, reading and and trying so many posts, i came across a simple solution, so far it is working, let me know if it works for you as well. note: I did this on a Vaio Soney Z and of courese the Vista thing open: Network and Sharing Center on the left pan click and open : Manage network connections you should see the Wireless Network Connection/Unidentified netwrok highlight that icon and right click on it, click on Properties, click continue when prompted by Windows, click the Sharing tap on the top of the Wireless Network Connection Properties Check the the first option box (Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection). click OK . cold start the computer. Oh you're my hero! This fixed the problem on my laptop, thank you!

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Thank you very much!!! Today my mothers internet seem to stop working. Her laptop is about a year old and it wasn't making any sense to me at all. Seems it was due to Norton 360 running out of credit and was stopping the connection to the internet. I tired to remove it via add/remove but it didn't fix the issue. The removal tool did. So thank you again.