Q: Wireless internet no longer works using Windows Vista Home Premium

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Alaina

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Hi, I have a PC that duel-boots Vista and XP, but I've always used Vista. After a year of working, my wireless internet just stopped working using Vista. It still works wirelessly from XP, but I have to plug in directly to access the internet from Vista.

It says "Currently connected to: Unidentified network (linksys) Access: Local only," four out of five bars are green, it says "Connected," and it says the signal strength is good, the security type is unsecured, and the radio type is unknown. There's a little yellow caution icon with a black exclamation point over the network icon, and in the network and sharing center, it shows me connected to the "unidentified network," but then not to the internet.

If I diagnose and repair, it suggests plugging in or automatically getting new IP settings for the wireless connection, which I try, and after attempting to repair it says a problem with my network router or broadband modem might be preventing an internet connection.

We bought a new router and just got a new modem (this problem happened while we had the old ones which used to work, though, so if anything, buying new ones should have solved it) AND they work fine for everyone else in the house (wirelessly)!

Any suggestions? Thanks so much! :/
 
Did you try to restart your router while your computer was on to see if that did anything?
Do you know if your router assigned you an IP Address?
 
Thanks for the response; yes, we tried that, but still couldn't get it to work (it's been more than a month now so we've tried a lot) and yes, I think so because I can plug into the new router and it works (sorry, I'm not that technical with computers but I'm trying...)
 
Ok. If you go to Start> Run > Type in "CMD" > Type in "Ipconfig/all", do you see your IPv4 address, Default gateway and the DNS server addresses?
 
You do not need to post them here.

Here's how you manually enter in the IPv4 address and DNS and such

Go to Control panel > Networking and Sharing Center > Connections: Local Area Connection > Properties > Select (The box should already be checked, just highlight it, where it says "Internet Protocol Verson 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click properties.

Now, take those addresses (the ones that came up after you typed in "ipconfig/all") and enter them in:
Ipv4 address goes to > IP address
Default Gateway address goes to > Default Gateway etc etc..

You only need to enter in,
IP Address,
Subnet Mask
Default Gateway
and
Preferred DNS Server

Then you press OK and OK and Close.

(This is assuming that when you typed in "Ipconfig/all" in command prompt that all the codes that I just listed came up) If there isn't an IPv4 address listed then please tell me)
 
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