I also have a HP DV6000 which I upgraded from XP to Vista.
Which WLAN chip do you have? I have the Intel Pro 3945ABG,
and I was able to find a later (and better) driver on Intel's site
than what HP's site offered.

Gary VanderMolen

"James David Byrne" <jamesbyrne@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:%23x%23j799jHHA.4800@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I have 2 HP DV6000-series laptops, one XP, one Vista. Like you, the XP machine WiLAN performance is faultless. The Vista one has
>very poor connectivity and data speeds are horrible. It doesn't help that the WiFi dialogs, so simple and easy in XP are now a
>convoluted mess in Vista! I have HP working on it though. Probably a driver issue.
>
> J :-)
>
> "jinky" <jamiemagnet******.com> wrote in message news:jinky.2q4lq5@no-mx.tabletquestions.com...[color=green]
>>
>> Hey Julie,
>> You are not alone, the same thing is happening to me. If I run my
>> wireless router in unsecured mode, it works fine, I get five bars of
>> connectivity. As soon as I add security, my connectivity starts to drop
>> down to almost nothing and eventually I loose my connection. I have an
>> XP laptop and a Vista laptop. The XP laptop works perfectly connecting
>> to the route while sitting about 6 inches away from the Vista machine,
>> the Vista machine connects after a reboot, but after a short time
>> looses its connection and cannot connect back to it without a reboot.
>>
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>>
>> --
>> jinky[/color]
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