Windows Vista Public Beta Available [Merged]

maforduk

Hee Hee Rex, don't forget to let us all know what Vista is like
Thanks.

charlieheard

:eek: OMG - "Please insert second installation DVD now" :rotfl:

xycom1

Was downloading at 1.6MB/sec earlier but download kept getting stopped after about halfway through. Saying that the server is busy is an understatement - I can't even get the download manager version to download, the straight download link is coming through at 74KB/sec now... less than 1GB and 4 hours to go!

Bet it cuts off...

Quincy_3

Excellent free download manager.

sco0ter

Got it and installed it.... Bad compatability with my wireless network...

MercilessKiller

I gave up on windows vista beta 2 today. here's why and if anyone has a solution please post.

Installed Vista 2 on the laptop. Install was fine.

The laptop has an intel 2200bg wireless adapter in built (dell inspiron 6000). Vista 2 comes with dirvers to support this.

I connected to my home network but the ip the adapter was getting through dhcp began with 169.x.x.x and subnet 255.255.0.0 wen my details are 192.168.x.x 255.255.255.240

So i manually changed the ip settings. It connected full (no limited connectivity) but couldnt connect to the net.

In ipconfig i could ping the loopback address no problem, but wen i pinged the router, it would time out.

No firewalls were on.

I tried installing loads of other drivers for the wireless adapter, but then it wouldnt work at all.

Unless someone has a 100% solution, i aint going back to vista

sco0ter

MercilessKiller wrote:

I gave up on windows vista beta 2 today. here's why and if anyone has a solution please post.

Installed Vista 2 on the laptop. Install was fine.

The laptop has an intel 2200bg wireless adapter in built (dell inspiron 6000). Vista 2 comes with dirvers to support this.

I connected to my home network but the ip the adapter was getting through dhcp began with 169.x.x.x and subnet 255.255.0.0 wen my details are 192.168.x.x 255.255.255.240

So i manually changed the ip settings. It connected full (no limited connectivity) but couldnt connect to the net.

In ipconfig i could ping the loopback address no problem, but wen i pinged the router, it would time out.

No firewalls were on.

I tried installing loads of other drivers for the wireless adapter, but then it wouldnt work at all.

Unless someone has a 100% solution, i aint going back to vista

This is the reason its Beta. You are supposed to work it out to help others. Did you try all the vista diagnostic tools to see where the problem lies??. Do you have more than one computer on the network??... Could you connect to the other computer but just not the net????.

After 4 hours of fiddling around I got my Netgear DG834GT router and WG111T Wireless USB adapter working and everything is fine... In fact its more stable under Vista than it was under XP.

MercilessKiller

sco0ter wrote:

This is the reason its Beta. You are supposed to work it out to help others. Did you try all the vista diagnostic tools to see where the problem lies??. Do you have more than one computer on the network??... Could you connect to the other computer but just not the net????.

After 4 hours of fiddling around I got my Netgear DG834GT router and WG111T Wireless USB adapter working and everything is fine... In fact its more stable under Vista than it was under XP.

Of course i tried everything! I was meddling with it for hours myself but it just wouldnt work. I also used the DG846GT router but my wireless adapter just wasnt connecting properly. I was getting limited connectivity or then when it connected, it would say "Access to Local Network ONLY".

If I diagnosed the problem it would just say there was a problem with the device, make sure you entered the right WEP key.

The only thing that could be effecting it.. I use key index 4 with a hexadecimal code. And 64 bit key. There is nowhere to enter these settings so it may assume Key index 1?

And yes all other comp's on the router worked fine

sco0ter

Could you access the comps from the VISTA one... Try turning off the security while you test vista and see if this solves it. Also does all your adapters support WPA. Vista has mega support for WPA but basic for WEP. The whole install process for me was about getting drivers working but I use WPA with a passphrase of 9 letters 3 digits and it connected first time.

MercilessKiller

sco0ter wrote:

Could you access the comps from the VISTA one... Try turning off the security while you test vista and see if this solves it. Also does all your adapters support WPA. Vista has mega support for WPA but basic for WEP. The whole install process for me was about getting drivers working but I use WPA with a passphrase of 9 letters 3 digits and it connected first time.

Yes I turned security off. And come on, from my description of the problem, not being able to ping the router, do you think I could access other computers? Course not.. if I could then the ping would work fine!!!!!!!

The strange thing is vista comes with special drivers for my network device which is why my brain is getting rattled (and frustrated).

WEP should work fine. Its more basic than WPA thus vista prob having only basic support for it. Should still work though!!