I know this is inappropriate in a windows forum, but, I hate windows. A lot. I have had nothing but headaches with it for the past 14 or so years. I switched to a mac the first chance I had, but, I still am forced to use a windows machine for a lot of gaming I do. That being said, I need some help from the experts who are used to constant windows issues. So, my Vista machine decided to no longer connect to the net. This is done over wireless, just as my mac. It was all of the sudden. I just went to do something and saw it totally died. First, I tested to see if it could connect over a non-secured network, and it worked fine after I disabled any security settings on my router. So I know it's not the wireless card or the router. So, I re-enable the security settings, and it won't work at all. ipconfig /all shows a very unusual DNS address. I put the one in it should be using, and it's stating limited or no connectivity. Also, the settings appear to be totally different when I do any type of secure network, as opposed to the open one. This also happens on my laptop, but didn't care since I didn't use the net on it. I do use it on my windows machine. I would hate to have a non-secured network, but it's getting to that point. There are a billion topics like this all over the net. But it's not an issue with being too far away from the router, etc. It's an issue that with any secure network, it just doesn't work.
