"Mick" <Mick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3E38DCFC-9F2F-4F50-B05C-0BC9DE221E56@microsoft.com...
> Misery loves company- so i'll join you in lamenting I've been
> operating at home with bellsout.net [now att.net] DSL and with XP as my
> operating system- I didn't have any problems browsing the web or getting
> e-mail. I bought a new [expensive ]laptop with vista premium and I can get
> e-mail but connecting to any webpage is a crap shoot!! It usually takes
> 2-3
> minutes just to find a [or any] website [url] and then once it finds it,
> it
> takes about 2 minutes to fully load the page----then if you click a
> hyperlink
> within that page, it takes an additional 3-4 minutes to load--- often the
> web
> browser [IEX or mozilla} times out when it is unsuccessful--- I used the
> networks diagnostics to trouble shoot and it advsd it could not ping the
> isp
> dns server... I went to the "run" command and typed in the exact same ip
> address and my machine sent 4 packets but received "zero" back---- I
> connected my son's laptop that has XP as the operating system and is
> lightning fast---- I went to the command prompt and pinged the same isp
> dns
> server ip address and, withing miliseconds the pings came right back with
> no
> problem--- the att dsl tier II [KID!!] that I talked to [in the
> Phillipines]
> didn't have a clue- att makes purposefully unclear references to
> incompatibility issues between dsl and microsoft] that were [supposedly]
> cleared up in May 2007-
> I think the Dslam shelf [software] in the LEC central ofc and its related
> field remote terminal shelf [ cards ] might need some sort of software
> upgrade to support the vista operating system. LIke you Gary, "Internet
> connectivity is our #1 priority!!!"-- I do tons of researh at home wfor
> work
> and now...... I called att tier II tech support back and suggested that
> they
> check for
> a DHCP issue requiring a firmware upgrade [patch] for this particular
> regional server and/or the cot and RT dslam controller cards [channel
> units]
>
I'm using bellsouth.net without problems. I may not be using the same DNS
server, though, or even any other bellsouth.net DNS server since I never
entered what DNS server to use or installed any bellsouth.net software on
this machine. I wouldn't be surprised if the DNS server setting on my
machine is the default setting for the HP OEM version of Vista.