I've been working on a laptop for someone. I cleaned it up and updated it, yada, yada, yada. One of the problems I was told it was having was that IE wouldn't connect a lot of the time and that it wouldn't let her get on the internet.
Once I had done everything to it, I found that she was right. I couldn't find anything wrong with IE, and went through several things to try to see what it might be. I did not uninstall/reinstall it, but I did try to install over it (Vista wouldn't allow it as the updated version on the laptop was newer than the downloaded version).
Once a hunch, I just fired the lappy back up to try it. I was finishing up a post on here at the same time. When I went to submit the post, it said that I wasn't connected to the server. I hit try again and resend about four times, nada. So I opened up IE on the lappy and it couldn't connect to its homepage. My connection was working fine up to this point.
I killed IE and shut down the lappy. When I resent my post, BAM! No wait, no fuss, without a hitch.
Sooooo..... What in the world is going on here? Why would a laptop completely screw my router when it is on? The laptop is connecting wirelessly and my desktop is wired.
The laptop is running 32-bit Vista Home Premium (fully patched, btw) and IE8 (Chrome connects just fine, even when IE won't). It is a Dell Inspirion 1526. I updated all the drivers while I was working on it. It uses a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card.
My router is a Linksys WRT54G. I forget which version, but it is one of the old ones.
Anyone got any answers or ideas on this one?
Once I had done everything to it, I found that she was right. I couldn't find anything wrong with IE, and went through several things to try to see what it might be. I did not uninstall/reinstall it, but I did try to install over it (Vista wouldn't allow it as the updated version on the laptop was newer than the downloaded version).
Once a hunch, I just fired the lappy back up to try it. I was finishing up a post on here at the same time. When I went to submit the post, it said that I wasn't connected to the server. I hit try again and resend about four times, nada. So I opened up IE on the lappy and it couldn't connect to its homepage. My connection was working fine up to this point.
I killed IE and shut down the lappy. When I resent my post, BAM! No wait, no fuss, without a hitch.
Sooooo..... What in the world is going on here? Why would a laptop completely screw my router when it is on? The laptop is connecting wirelessly and my desktop is wired.
The laptop is running 32-bit Vista Home Premium (fully patched, btw) and IE8 (Chrome connects just fine, even when IE won't). It is a Dell Inspirion 1526. I updated all the drivers while I was working on it. It uses a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card.
My router is a Linksys WRT54G. I forget which version, but it is one of the old ones.
Anyone got any answers or ideas on this one?
