vista - loose network connection on reboot

well, i've jumped on the bandwagon and have only run into one real problem...every time i reboot or cold boot, i have to power cycle my router in order to establish a network connection. is there a router setting that might be messing with vista? i'm using all the same hardware that i used with xp, which gave no problems in this area. the router is a vonage linksys RT31P2 which has no firmware updates available. any thoughts would be appreciated!

try turning off auto-negotiation and fixing it to whatever speed your equipment was designed for.

I'd update/try different versions of the NIC's driver. If you hardcode the speed/duplex make sure to remember that when you switch networks with different settings.

Phoenix86 said:

I'd update/try different versions of the NIC's driver. If you hardcode the speed/duplex make sure to remember that when you switch networks with different settings.

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If he were to select 100mpbs with full duplex, he shouldnt have an issue unless by some misfortune he stumbles upon a 10mb or half-duplex network

But yes, updating drivers may resolve this for you... however.. if Vista didn't install the latest drivers automagically at install... I highly doubt your going to be able to find better ones elsewhere.

What build of Vista are you running? It may be a known issue and was fixed in a later build, that may be a good thing to look into.

I work for Microsoft, and internally we have access to 5824 which was built today, thats a significant number of builds post rc2 - fortunately RTM seems to be right around the corner which will give the rest of you guys a significant update.