Hi there..I went around to a house today to "fix" a networking problem. The customer is living in an attached appartment next door to his landlord who has a home network with a belkin wireless router and he has provided him with the network key. His problem is it either wont connect or connects and goes down again. He's on Vista service pack 1. I did all the usual things to check if it was a problem with the adapters etc..Installed the drivers for a known working adapter, then tried another 1. I could connect to the router but not the internet. Tried turning off windows firewall , renewing the i.p, disabling and re-enabling network connections..no luck..Anyway decided I'd take the machine away with me and see if it would connect to my home network with the same adapter. I was hoping it wouldnt so i could then be sure it was a problem with the computer and was going to do a re-install or install windows 7 on it if i couldnt get it working. However..

Connected effortlessly to my own network! So at first I was disapointed i couldnt recreate the problem at home...at least I now know its not the computer and so it focuses the problem on the router..Now the landlord told me that he has loads of stuff connected to his network no problem and when he can also connect to the network with his own laptop in the tenants house.

I'm going to around there to see if i can logon to the router and maybe ask the landlord to reboot it..then i gather I should maybe disable filtering and security ?? Read somewhere to do a factory reset of the router? Would that cause any problems in itself? Also should I try any of these steps i found elsewhere...

1. Unplug the network cable, turn off the router/modem.
2. Hit Win-R, type 'cmd' and hit enter (or Start > Run > All programs > Accessories > Command prompt)
3. Type 'ipconfig /release' (without quotes) and hit enter
4. Type 'ipconfig /flushdns' (without quotes) and hit enter.
5. Type 'netsh winsock reset' (without quotes) and hit enter.
6. Type 'netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt' (without quotes) and hit enter
7. Type 'netsh int reset all' (without quotes) and hit enter
8. Type 'netsh routing reset all' (without quotes) and hit enter
9. Type 'netsh routing dump' (without quotes) and hit enter
10. Plug in network cable and turn router/modem back on.
11. Wait 5 minutes.
12. Type 'ipconfig /renew' (without quotes) and hit enter.
13. Check connection status again. It should say 'Connected'.

I really want to sort this problem out...but am stumped so far..And its hard to find the exact same situation by googling..Hope someone can advise on any of the above or perhaps arm me with some other things to try when i get back there. I assume i'd be having the same problems even if i installed windows 7 on his machine? I appreciate this is my first post as i normally can find the answer to my problems by searching previous threads but been looking at for a solution to this particular problem for hours now..Any help would be much appreciated