I have 4 computers in my home. 2 being desktops and 2 being laptops. 3 work fine, the one that does not work is my laptop, the only one having Windows Vista. The other laptop has a wireless connection to Windows XP, while my laptop has connected to the Internet before, the connection was knocked off when a sibling pulled the chord out of the wall. Now, I only get "local only" or "limited connectivity" when I connect to my home network. I have to do school work and I am about to go crazy. I know there is an easy way to fix this since my laptop has worked before with this router...it is a linksys router. I have read a lot about manually configuring the IP adress or something, but have no idea how to actually do it? PLEASE HELP!!

Windows Vista Network and Sharing Center has very good tool enable you diagnose your connection issues, just right click on your connection and click Diagnose and repair to check it, it will list you some solutions to help you. Good luck

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Im getting the same problem , we have 2 laptops in the home , mine was working fine (vista) on the router with my dads laptop connected to it, but then he gets a new vista laptop, and then my doesnt work on the internet, but his does , i get the same local only and limited connectivity thing , and ive tried diagnose and repair and none of the repair options work , PLEASE HELP!

I too am having a problem with Vista and my network. I have a server that is connected to my cablemodem and the othe NIC to my network. I am running Windows Server 2003 on it. I have 2 computers with Vista and 2 with XP and 1 with 2000 Pro. I have everything set up as WORKGROUP for the network and connected fine to each other and to the internet. I am setting up my server to host my website and had to change the domain name and now everything still connects to the network except my Vista machines. I used the networking tools in Vista, tried to join the domain, and everything I can think of to connect to the network. Where do I go from here? Can't see any networks nor can I connect to the internet! Is says "Local Only"