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Vista networking, redux
Mar. 1st, 2010 05:38 amLess than a year ago, I discovered that my wife's brand-new Vista-running laptop not only wouldn't connect to our D-Link DI-624 router, but it in fact "crashed the network". The workaround, at the time, was for her to connect to the network provided by the building's management company.
We've moved, and that option is no longer available. Which means I'm right back where I started, though this time with slightly more information: it's not so much that her laptop "crashes the network", it's that it seems to quite literally crash the router. When I try to connect her laptop to the router (via wireless or ethernet cable), it resets the router. "Resets", as in, the router's system time defaults back to April 2002. Some websearching suggests that the right thing to do is downgrade the router's firmware to, say, version 2.42, but I can't actually find that firmware anywhere (D-Link's website has only the most recent version, 2.76). Which means that the answer may end up being "buy a new router", which isn't particularly the solution I was looking for at this point. Grr.
We've moved, and that option is no longer available. Which means I'm right back where I started, though this time with slightly more information: it's not so much that her laptop "crashes the network", it's that it seems to quite literally crash the router. When I try to connect her laptop to the router (via wireless or ethernet cable), it resets the router. "Resets", as in, the router's system time defaults back to April 2002. Some websearching suggests that the right thing to do is downgrade the router's firmware to, say, version 2.42, but I can't actually find that firmware anywhere (D-Link's website has only the most recent version, 2.76). Which means that the answer may end up being "buy a new router", which isn't particularly the solution I was looking for at this point. Grr.