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rebel_son · 05-04-2008, 10:29 PM

OK so i got a bit of a problem here. I have a laptop operating on vista and a D-link router. Previously i've connected wirelessly and they worked fine together, but now i want to use my laptop where the wireless network doesn't reach to, so instead i've run an ethernet cable. When i plug it into my laptop, it goes to "indentifying network" and then finally comes up and says that it either has only a local connection, or limited connectivity. At first i thought maybe it was just that the ethernet wire was too long --but i tried plugging it into another computer (really old Mac OS 9) and the internet works on that. Could it be that my router won't work with vista somehow and if that is the problem, how can i fix it? Do i need to get a new router?

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rebel_son Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 14 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium	[SOLVED] Vista not compatible with router? OK so i got a bit of a problem here. I have a laptop operating on vista and a D-link router. Previously i've connected wirelessly and they worked fine together, but now i want to use my laptop where the wireless network doesn't reach to, so instead i've run an ethernet cable. When i plug it into my laptop, it goes to "indentifying network" and then finally comes up and says that it either has only a local connection, or limited connectivity. At first i thought maybe it was just that the ethernet wire was too long --but i tried plugging it into another computer (really old Mac OS 9) and the internet works on that. Could it be that my router won't work with vista somehow and if that is the problem, how can i fix it? Do i need to get a new router?