I haven't a clue but, in the diagnostic process, the first thing I'd try
is to take the router from your house and install it temporarily in the
other house. If that doesn't work I'd do the Win7 upgrade which is
perhaps where you should be from a security standpoint anyhow.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/23/2014 5:05 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> To the collective brains on this list: can you shed some light on this?
>
> I have a problem with a PC (running Vista - ugh) that can connect to
> the wifi router and thence to the internet in my house, but in another
> house it connects to the router but there is no onward internet
> connection.
> All other devices (phones, tablets etc) can connect fine in both
> places. Both routers are running WPA2-PSK security. The wifi adaptor
> has the latest driver installed.
> And it's a fresh install of Vista (and all SPs and updates) because we
> started from a very sluggish clogged-up laptop (a few years past its
> best) - although previously it was connecting to the internet ok!
>
> My first thought was a DNS issue but manually setting DNS addresses
> doesn't help.
>
> Any other brainwaves please?
> TIA
> jez
>
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