Hi all,
I've been having serious trouble trying to connect a Vista PC to my LAN. XP and 7 on two other PC's both work fine. All PC's connect to my broadband router's Ethernet LAN ports. I usually let the router assign IP's, but since that didn't work I tried setting them manually. According to ipconfig/all the correct IP and subnet are assigned to the NIC, but I cannot ping the router or connect to the other PC's on the LAN. Manually setting the router as the default gateway also doesn't work.
What also puzzles me is that the error message I get when pinging the router varies. Sometimes it says "Request timed out" and other times it says "No route to destination"
Is there some trick involved with setting up a LAN in Vista? Is it more likely to be a setting on the NIC itself? I'm a bit stumped here, so any ideas would be appreciated.
I've been having serious trouble trying to connect a Vista PC to my LAN. XP and 7 on two other PC's both work fine. All PC's connect to my broadband router's Ethernet LAN ports. I usually let the router assign IP's, but since that didn't work I tried setting them manually. According to ipconfig/all the correct IP and subnet are assigned to the NIC, but I cannot ping the router or connect to the other PC's on the LAN. Manually setting the router as the default gateway also doesn't work.
What also puzzles me is that the error message I get when pinging the router varies. Sometimes it says "Request timed out" and other times it says "No route to destination"
Is there some trick involved with setting up a LAN in Vista? Is it more likely to be a setting on the NIC itself? I'm a bit stumped here, so any ideas would be appreciated.