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Yet another "unidentified network" problem
I finally "upgraded" from win XP to Win 7 Home Premium. It is prettier, but far more trouble than I ever expected.
I have an on board Access Point (Realtek rtl8187), that set up easily and worked flawlessly for the past couple years on XP.
I cannot get it to work in Win 7.
My internet connection is through a USB Pantech UM175 "Air Card". I connect to the internet just fine with it, but cannot get my wireless to work so that I can use my laptop or netbook.
My AP shows public, unidentified network.
All latest available drivers installed: Yes
I removed and re-installed both my Pantech and Realtek drivers.
Researched possible fixes, Yes, for days now, so sick of reading and trying all the "fixes" on several forums that I am wishing I had listened to friends and went to MACs! This after defending Windows for years.
I am reasonably comfortable with PC's, having built, upgraded, and rebuilt several over the years starting with DOS in the early '80's. There have been headaches surely over the decades, but this is the absolute WORST experience ever!
Looks like there is a big networking bug in Win 7, and seemingly Microsoft cares little to none. Why is something that was reasonably straight forward in XP seemingly almost impossible to fix in Win 7? In Home Premium, one would think that setting up a dirt simple home wireless network should be just about automatic. I am positively amazed that there seem to be so many ways to "break" networking in Win 7, and so many (complicated) ways to fix it.
Here is my ipconfig /all:
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : xxxxxxx-HomePC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
PPP adapter Broadband:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadband
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 75.216.123.199(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.174.71.33
69.78.96.14
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : PANTECH UM175 WWAN Driver
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 7A-80-20-00-02-00
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11b/g 54Mbps USB 2.0 Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-15-AF-03-65-5E
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:4bc8:a1e5:e:ad15:7120:2d61:2c75(Preferred)
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:4bd8:7bc7:e:ad15:7120:2d61:2c75(Preferred)
Site-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fec0::e:ad15:7120:2d61:2c75%2(Preferred)
Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2002:4bc8:a1e5:e:79e7:7883:9614:d951(Preferred)
Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2002:4bd8:7bc7:e:ad28:d9dd:eac4:4767(Preferred)
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::ad15:7120:2d61:2c75%14(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.1(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.2
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234886575
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-16-6B-2D-B4-00-18-F3-2E-41-5D
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%2
fec0:0:0:ffff::2%2
fec0:0:0:ffff::3%2
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Tunnel adapter isatap.{9295DD1C-8EDA-46EA-A7E3-99B2A7017F88}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter isatap.{45DF3AD5-35F5-47A5-A047-AC1A3186669F}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter 6TO4 Adapter:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft 6to4 Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:4bd8:7bc7::4bd8:7bc7(Preferred)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 2002:c058:6301::c058:6301
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.174.71.33
69.78.96.14
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
Tunnel adapter isatap.{5F4702D2-BAF0-451D-AD10-927C6B97C83C}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #3
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e76:43:1412:b427:8438(Preferred)
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::43:1412:b427:8438%13(Preferred)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
I will be greatly appreciative if anyone can help me here. I did set a default gateway on the AP, but do not know what to do on my internet connection.