Ad-hoc wireless network SUDDENLY STOPPED WORKING!!!

I linked my laptop (Win 7 RC) with my girlfriends (Vista Home Basic) via Ad-hoc wireless networking, and it ran like a dream for a week. We took it in turns being the one plugged in at the ethernet, and the one with their feet up on the bed enjoying the comforts of wireless technology.

Then one day the ad-hoc networks were showing up as local-only.

Regardless of what I do in the settings, turning ICS on/off, disabling/reenabling adaptors, drivers, tweaking this and that, I can't get the ad-hoc network to share the internet, even though the ICS is shown as on

I've searched google quite thoroughly and found lots of cases of people suffering from this problem, but not a single solution. I suspect its a Vista bug they never ironed out.

I am now going around the forums posting this in the hope that someone knows what is going on and can help me. I really want us both to be able to have net access.

Please, please, please help. Very grateful if you can.

P.S> I am an IT professional, just so we can avoid the obvious questions. I just don't like to have to reinstall every 5 minutes, and am really hoping that Win 7 is the OS to break the Microsoft mould of making those reinstallations so frequent.

ChrisBlizzard said:

I linked my laptop (Win 7 RC) with my girlfriends (Vista Home Basic) via Ad-hoc wireless networking, and it ran like a dream for a week. We took it in turns being the one plugged in at the ethernet, and the one with their feet up on the bed enjoying the comforts of wireless technology.

Then one day the ad-hoc networks were showing up as local-only.

Regardless of what I do in the settings, turning ICS on/off, disabling/reenabling adaptors, drivers, tweaking this and that, I can't get the ad-hoc network to share the internet, even though the ICS is shown as on

I've searched google quite thoroughly and found lots of cases of people suffering from this problem, but not a single solution. I suspect its a Vista bug they never ironed out.

I am now going around the forums posting this in the hope that someone knows what is going on and can help me. I really want us both to be able to have net access.

Please, please, please help. Very grateful if you can.

P.S> I am an IT professional, just so we can avoid the obvious questions. I just don't like to have to reinstall every 5 minutes, and am really hoping that Win 7 is the OS to break the Microsoft mould of making those reinstallations so frequent.

Well win 7 is but i dont suspect it is an OS problem. where does you ISP come from? IE ISP>???????>>>>pc. modem, router, school, etc?

Kenn J+

ISP is university accommodation network

Imporant thing though is it worked for a week before stopping, and 100s of other people online had the same problem, and they had different ISPs.

When something works for a while, on two different OSs, then stops, and one of those OS's is Vista, chances are the problem is Vista.

This is just a frustration to me that I'm having pro-Linux pangs again

ChrisBlizzard said:

ISP is university accommodation network

Imporant thing though is it worked for a week before stopping, and 100s of other people online had the same problem, and they had different ISPs.

When something works for a while, on two different OSs, then stops, and one of those OS's is Vista, chances are the problem is Vista.

This is just a frustration to me that I'm having pro-Linux pangs again

Chris
Did you mean hundreds of people in you university had problems or hundreds had the same problem somewhere else?

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Chris

We can get this ficed. Smilodon does have a point. did something happen at the university?

Kenn J++

There were no changes made to either laptop in that week. There was no problem with the university system either.

Reasons that make me think it IS the OS:-

1. The 100s of other people were Vista or 7 users online - if you google "ad-hoc network problem internet connection sharing", you will find a great many cases where the same thing happened - set it up - worked like a dream - one week later...stopped

2. I had an ad-hoc network up between two machines using Win 7 Beta earlier this year and the network lasted indefinitely, not disappearing after a week.

But most telling

3. For the first few days, when we set up the network (taking it in turns to be the host), there was a box marked "Sharing this connection". Then it disappeared but carried on working. Then the networks stopped working all together.

patwhatsthat said:

Hope your going to hang around even after your issue gets resolved, we could probably benfit from your experience in IT

Sure, I will pop in from time to time. I appreciate the help guys.