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Vista and Google … network problems?

Alright, I admit. I like Vista. I'm a sucker for eye candy and Vista definately has that. I've got Vista installed on my laptop just to give it a test drive. I'm enjoying it so far, but there's one HUGE setback that's really bugging me. I can't reach certian google sites, like Gmail, Google Image Search, just to name a couple. I'm not saying it's only google, I've noticed the issue with CNN.com as well. It just seems very bizzare to me.

I've got a small network setup here at home with 4 computers. One is my server/router. It handles all requests in and out. I then have two desktop computers, one is mine and the other is my girlfriends. Both run Windows XP and I run Gentoo linux. Neither of us have any difficulty getting to any of the web sites mentioned. Now, on the laptop, I run Vista (used to run XP). When it ran XP, I could reach all of the google sites just fine, and CNN.com worked great as well as Gmail and Google Image Search. Now that I have Vista installed, I have random missing images on Google Image Search, and for Gmail, well, I can see the login screen (barely), but not my mailbox. CNN.com just completely hangs when I try to visit it.

I'm absolutely dumbfounded by this behavior. I've had Vista also on both desktops with the SAME issue. It's not just an incompatable NIC because I've tried several NICs through my process of trouble shooting. I've also tried differnet settings and configurations on my router. If anyone has any ideas, or possibly some way I could trace the connection problem down, please let me know!! I'm at my absolute witts end with this. I'm just looking for a way to even find where the connection is stopping... hopefully I can get this solved because I'm sure others out there are having similar issues too.

Edit - 12-11-2008: After doing some extensive testing on this, it really seems to be just an issue of drivers. With newer hardware and drivers, everything has been running fine Vista installs.