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Brin

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Posted December 19, 2011 at 4:14PM

HI I have a Belkin N wireless router it works OK if it is wired up to my desktop and laptop via cables. When conected wireless to the laptop and you turn off the laptop, when you turn it back on it does not find the home network,some times if you restart the router it is ok but it will not conect at all know i am running vista on both PC's hope someone can help many thanks Brian

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difarn

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Posted December 19, 2011 at 10:35PM

Do you by any chance have Zone Alarm installed? There has been much discussion about this affecting vista PC's connected wirelessly.

Do you have IPv6 enabled? If so try disabling this leaving IPv4 enabled - this article explains this and how to disable it.

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