vista 2 no internet

Weird thing... see's the nic and sets it up with no problem. My ZyXEL X-550 router gives it an IP and I can browse and access local workgroup PC's and I can even ping places like www.yahoo.com from the DOS prompt but when I open IE I can't get to any sites...anybody have this problem or have any ideas on this? I've tried everything I can think of at this point... static IP, DHCP, IP, turning off firewall, etc....

Try using a direct modem connection - from computer to the phone line, and see if that works. Then, you'll know whether it's the router or in fact Vista :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "GuitarMan" wrote in message

Weird thing... see's the nic and sets it up with no problem. My ZyXEL X-550 router gives it an IP and I can browse and access local workgroup PC's and I can even ping places like www.yahoo.com from the DOS prompt but when I open IE I can't get to any sites...anybody have this problem or have any ideas on this? I've tried everything I can think of at this point... static IP, DHCP, IP, turning off firewall, etc....

Got it figured out.... seems Vista doesn't like SPI enabled on the router end. If I disable SPI in the router it works. Definetly a Vista thing as other XP machines on my network don't have that issue...
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

Try using a direct modem connection - from computer to the phone line, and see if that works. Then, you'll know whether it's the router or in fact Vista :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "GuitarMan" wrote in message Weird thing... see's the nic and sets it up with no problem. My ZyXEL X-550 router gives it an IP and I can browse and access local workgroup PC's and I can even ping places like www.yahoo.com from the DOS prompt but when I open IE I can't get to any sites...anybody have this problem or have any ideas on this? I've tried everything I can think of at this point... static IP, DHCP, IP, turning off firewall, etc....