Going into IE Or FireFox under the connection and LAN/Network settings ticking on Auto Detect Proxy setting for this network?
There does seem to be an open issue for some and there are other tries to get it to work if this one does not. We didn't think to test other programs so am glad to hear that they worked so it is a browser issue.
Northlite
I haven't messed with Vista much, but a co-worker needs my help. Her laptop can connect wirelessly to two different networks. Once connected I can resolve host names and ping internet servers. When I open IE7 it says "website found, waiting for reply" and that's as far as it gets...eventually there's a page not found error. I have tried many, many websites and none will come up. I then opened Windows media player and went to the Urge tab...it came up fine, McAffee even pulled it's updates down. So I installed Firefox and guess what? It acts just like IE7. I have disabled the connection and re-enabled...I have disabled the unused ethernet card. I just don't understand how Vista works well enough to solve this one.

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