I recently moved my wireless router and cable modem away from my Vista PC. It was always configured wirelessly, as I knew I would have to move it at some point. I left the computer on when I unplugged the router etc. and then set them up downstairs.

When I tried to access the network after everything had been set up again, I noticed that Vista thought my home network was an "Unidentified network" but still had my ssid in (___). Only problem was that now my network is "local only". I am connected to the router as local-only, and tried to adjust my router setting via the router page at 192.168.1.1 It was returned as page not found. Is Vista confused? If I was truly conncted to the router and even if internet was not working I should be able to adjust the settings on the router, right?

I can access the internet just fine with all of my other devices in the house, such as Tivo, Ps3 and Windows mobile cellphone. All of these are able to connect to the internet through my router.

There are other networks available around me, so I tried to connect to one of those. Same thing, local only. I cannot confirm that internet works on this other network. But I have narrowed it down to a problem with my Vista computer.

Help! I am so very frustrated. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I did an ipconfig /all and found out that the problem may be that my wireless connection is set to "Autoconfigure IPv4 Address 169.254.xxx.xxx". A person on a usenet board was helping me, but they have gone M.I.A.

I have tried to disable IPv4 and IPv6 together and separately, but neither made the connection work?

Does anyone know how to adjust the Autoconfigure IPv4 settings? Normally my IP address would be 192.168.1.3 because the computer only connects to the router. How can I change this? I HATE VISTA, looks nice, but it has only given me problems.

Thanks for any tips or suggestions.

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