My goof. I was blocking all ports on the router from 81 to 65000. Oops, too many. A little research and opened up more ports.
Same thing could happen with a firewall in the laptop.
i have a dell inspiron 1525
My laptop vista won't check for updates,
jA message comes on saying can't check for updates.
anyone know what is gong on and help to fix this.
thanks sal

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