Lost Wi Fi After SP1

The 802.11 standard has an average outdoor range of between 140m and 250m, or .09 miles to .15 miles...with a series of repeaters or amplifiers it's possible but unlikely to be receivable 10 miles away. My guess is that the signal was mis-identified and actually much closer to your location. You can try downloading an updated wireless driver from Toshiba's website, but something's amiss with the original connection.

John

I would say first thing that if your able to get a signal from 10 miles away then man that must be a powerful access point or router, either that or a top of the line wireless card. What I have found when it comes to Vista and wireless issues is I am currently using the 64-bit version of Vista Ultimate and I have had issues with drivers for my wireless setup. I actually found and using a driver from a completely different company's wireless products for my own wireless products. This is because the company that manufactured my wireless products does not have support for 64-bit, but it works because both products are based off the same architecture. From what you are saying it would make me think A. you do not have a wireless driver installed or a working driver installed, B. you are not picking up a wireless signal, or C. wireless is off or hardware is faulty. This is some of the stuff I have ran into and tried, perhaps it may help you?

If nothing else works just roll back using system restore to a date in time before you installed SP1 and ran into the problems so you can at least get it working again without having to . SP1 is just a bunch of updates anyways with a few little other things, perhaps you can install updates without choosing to install the whole SP1, perhaps there is one that is causing this trouble and if you can install all updates but that one you might be better off.