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WLAN Internet connection issues, timeouts (WinXP works, Win7 not)
On my old netbook with Windows XP 32bit the WLAN works perfect. But I encounter connection issues on my new notebook with Windows 7 64bit. I'm connected to a router.
Symptoms:
- playing games works pretty fine, despite some heavy lags now and then
- messenger (MSN, ICQ, IRC) work fine and stay connected
- FTP fileupload with FileZilla works only in active mode, not passive mode,
uploading files in passive mode result in endless timeouts,
since active mode opens ports on my computer, is it a port-based issue?- wireless internet on other machine with Windows XP works
- I experience the problem the most when browsing the internet in a webbrowser, if a connection issue happens then no websites will load anymore
most of all I got problems connecting to DeviantART (graphic websites with lots of images) the website will load but rarely the thumbnails of the images, the progressbar just loads and loads- EventViewer on Windows often gives messages about timeouts during DNS lookup
- when the internet connection in the webbrowser drops I can still ping google in command line, using the websitename takes ~20ms, using the IP takes ~40ms, I can also still chat in my messengers
Trials (nothing solved the problem):
- disabled IPv6
- running commands:
netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabled- set router encryption from WPA2 to WPA
- tried an older driver for my WLAN adapter
- tried different firewalls, also disabled firewall and antivirus completly
- installed all possible windows updates, also silverlight
- disabled the wireless adapter of the notebook and plugged in an external WLAN adapter dongle
I looked around for solutions of this problem and found alot of people talking about similar issues (change from WinXP to Win7, suddenly having connection issues on Win7 while WinXP works fine), but I did not found THE solution yet and I would wonder if there is any, cause then it would have been already included in a windows update I guess.
It really seems to be a Windows 7 problem, I really hope somebody can help me. This heavy problem can drive someone back to Windows XP and waiting for the next major release. Despite this problem Windows 7 works perfectly, I love it and would not like it to go back to Windows XP just to be able to browse the internet properly.
Thanks for any answers and links.