Quote Originally Posted by ecross
The Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool checks your Internet router to see if it supports certain technologies. You can use this tool on a PC running either the Windows Vista or Windows XP operating system. The tool is intended to be run from a home network behind a home Internet (NAT) router.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/usi...d/default.mspx
The question is: why is this even needed?

I did have to replace my old Dlink DI-524 router with a "Vista-compatible" Netgear WGR614 to get DHCP and the LAN browser to work via wireless - they worked fine over ethenet - but what part of TCPIP, DNS, DHCP, etc, should be incompatible between Vista and an old router? Wireless (including WPA) worked if I hardcoded an IP address - but LAN browsing still did not.

I know that Vista changed a default on the DHCP broadcast bit - but Vista supposedly can supposedly handle this with a registry setting - which did not help me at all. My new Vista laptop worked fine at Starbucks (T-mobile) and my local public library - but I never got an answer as to WHY it did not work at home ...

Dan