Home network randomly becomes Public...

[Zen Ninja]

for no apparent reason...I'm running Win7 x64 Ultimate...

it's working fine now and every time I reboot but becomes Public randomly and my connection shuts down because of it...any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Zen Ninja]

Anyone? This is getting really annoying...it happens every time I wake the PC up from sleep mode...

 

[Emulex]

thats a bad driver. had that problem with my dell inspiron 530 when i moved to windows 7. well in my case its a bad nic because i threw in a pci nic and stopped using the onboard junk which eliminated that problem. at the time there was no driver fix available.. crappy dell.

 

[Zen Ninja]

I reset the drivers and the problem persists...any other ideas? It seems like a simple configuration that needs to be done but I am uncertain what it is...

I have Win7 x64 Ultimate BTW...

 

[Emulex]

yeah put a different network card in. i've yet to get a working driver from dell.

 

[Zen Ninja]

LOL turns out it is the router that is the problem...just have to reset it when I wake my PC from sleep mode...

 

[JackMDS]

Then get the NIC out of the Power saving Loop.