'Limited Connectivity'

Last September I bought a Medion laptop with wireless LAN. I linked it up
with a Linksys WAG160N router.
Right from the start I had problems with initial connection to the internet.
The router is always on but when I re-booted the laptop it rarely connected
to the internet - giving me the message "Limited Connectivity". The only
way I could resolve the issue was by re-booting the router and the
connection was then established. Bloody nuisance when I used the laptop
downstairs and the router is in a spare bedroom upstairs!

I spent many happy hours trying to resolve this issue with Medion customer
support, Linksys customer support, and via this NG. None of the suggested
solutions ever worked.

A few days ago I happed to visit Medion's online customer support and had a
scroll through their FAQs. There it was : "My Vista laptop will not connect
to my Wi-Fi router?"

The solution:


Click Start.

In the Start search type net.

Left click Network and sharing centre.

On the left hand side of the window click Manage network connections.

Right click on Wlan card. Left click on Properties.

Remove the tick from the box that is located next to TCP/IPv6.

left click ok.

Restart computer.

I did that and problem solved. My laptop now connects to the router and the
internet the moment it boots up! So why didn't any of the customer support
bods at either Medion or Linksys come up with this solution?

Kev

On Jul 28, 11:53*am, "Ret." <xxx> wrote:
<snip>
>
> Remove the tick from the box that is located next to TCP/IPv6.
>
> left click ok.
>
> Restart computer.
>
> I did that and problem solved. My laptop now connects to the router and the
> internet the moment it boots up! *So why didn't any of the customer support
> bods at either Medion or Linksys come up with this solution?
>
> Kev


I don't know but its getting to be a pretty common thing I check these
days, early on.

I'd love for IPv6 to take the lead and just have the older ver 4
around for legacy use but I feel it's not ready for prime time yet.


berk
"that's not a bug, it's a feature..."

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.internet.wireless, in article
<477e8109-2cd8-4f63-a43a-995dacf0d76f@y4g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, berk wrote:

NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically
reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server.

>"Ret." <xxx> wrote:

>> Remove the tick from the box that is located next to TCP/IPv6.

>> I did that and problem solved. My laptop now connects to the router
>> and the internet the moment it boots up!

This has been a fairly common problem with IPv6 aware operating
systems for eight-ten years.

>> So why didn't any of the customer support bods at either Medion
>> or Linksys come up with this solution?

Generally, they're not paid to think.

>I don't know but its getting to be a pretty common thing I check
>these days, early on.

It's getting somewhat less common, but RFC4697 (October 2006) speaks
to the problem of DNS servers that drop or ignore AAAA (name to IPv6
request).

>I'd love for IPv6 to take the lead and just have the older ver 4
>around for legacy use but I feel it's not ready for prime time yet.

Boy, is that putting it mildly. Your article headers say PacBell in
the US. As of mid-month, the five Regional Internet Registries
(AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE) had allocated or assigned
96735 networks (2,901,445,219 addresses) in IPv4 land around the
world. They also had allocated or assigned just 3537 IPv6 networks.
Looking only at the US, the numbers are 34834 IPv4 and 880 IPv6
networks. See http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space and
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space. While IPv6
allocations/assignments are large blocks (the _smallest_ IPv6
assignments are /64s (about 6.4 billion times existing IPv4 space),
only a tiny fraction (1/40th of 1 percent) of IPv6 space is in use.

Hold your breath? I sure wouldn't. Still, if you do have IPv6
connectivity to the world, a 'traceroute6' can be funny as even
backbone connectivity isn't as great as it could/will be.

Old guy