I just upgraded two of my computers to Vista Business, and I am having an annoying issue with connecting to my router on occasion. I have a NetGear WGR614V7(latest Firmware patch) router that has worked great for about a year and half no issues. However, on my two computer that I have upgraded to Vista Business (one is a Dell Laptop with a dell wireless card and the other is a desktop with an Ethernet card) it seem that they have a hard time every once and a while to connect to the router. The events that occur in Vista are; you turn the computer on, Vista's network icon will appear and read identifying; now at this point either it will just hang here or it will proceed to connect to the router but never getting an IP address. The workaround isn't cut and dry either. Sometime it's as simple as have Vista rest the network devices or I have completely shut down the router cable modem and then try resting the network devices (a few times I have spend up to 45 minutes before I would get either of these computer to connect) . Also I want to be clear that this happens not just with wireless but also with direct cable connection. Before I upgraded to Vista I never had any issues like this, my other computer that is still running XP doesnt seem to have an issue. Does anybody have any ideas on what could be causing this? I will say that I have disabled (on both vista machines) Windows firewall, IPSec, and Windows ICS.

Hi, I suggest performing the following steps to troubleshoot the issue: 1. Try the resolution in KB 928233.Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servershttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233 2. Install the latest driver for the network adapter. 3. Manually assign an IP address to the machines. Hope it helps.