Vista WiFi issue

When I decided to take a risk by ordering my D830 with Vista Business, I promised myself I wouldn't ***** about Vista for a couple months. For the most part, I've gotten comfortable with almost everything about Vista in that time. I really like the look and feel of Vista. There is a learning curve to the new layout for Office programs but once I got used to it, I really prefer it to older versions of Office. One problem remains, connecting to WiFi networks.

Almost every time I connect to WiFi I am required to go through a convoluted process to gain access to the internet. Initially I'm only connected to the local network. Once I wait for Vista to "identify" the network it is connected to, I can attempt to "fix" this problem by "renewing the IP address". This never does anything except allow me to "fix" the problem again by (I think I have the verbiage correct) "reset the network connection". Some of the time that works. When it doesn't my computer automatically disconnects from the network and I manually reconnect at which point I granted internet access.

Is there a security setting I can change or disable to avoid this time consuming and useless process. It doesn't matter if this is a new network (say at a coffee shop) or one I use regularly (home/work) nor does it matter if it's a security enabled network or not.

Help with this issue is greatly appreciated.

 

I had problems connecting to my wireless network at home with vista home premium. However I seemed to solve the problem but i'm not sure exactly what I did.

I did notice however that even if the icon in the bottom right said that i wasnt connected to the internet/network, I could open msn/IE and it would work fine - so check that you cant access the internet anyway.

I installed the latest drivers for the intel 3945 wireless card and that boosted my signal strength from 2-3 bars to 4-5 bars. It said in the readme that it fixed some other vista errors so perhaps that will help.

I did have a phase of about a week where I had to disconnect the reconnect to the network manually in order for it to work. I think I manually deleted all networks from vista and let it discover the network again on its own to fix that.