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access point appear: unidentified network
internet appear bloqued
access: Local only
connection: wireless connection.
Please help check what is the reason "local only".
ip is assigned automatically by DHCP, but is not possible to connect to internet, the problem appear only on windows vista Pcs, in my other computer with XP version the connection is good.
I have Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1.
Thanks
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Check how your security is setup on your AP. I had to mess with mine a bit. For some reason, my windows 7 machines have been sensitive to it, especially on netgear AP's
http://www.mountainvistatech.com/2012/04/27/windows-7-wireless-connected-but-local-access-only/
This article resolved my same problem.
Have to add my voice to the "Kill Norton" crowd. After much struggle and time (d/l and installed like 3 SPs and hotfix - Dad's pc) - simply picked one of the Norton options and rebooted the laptop. And we're back online. FINALLY!
A few months ago I had to uninstall Norton (using its own uninstall pgm!!!!) b/c it had locked my dad off the internet since he had let his subscription expire. What a piece of ____!
Please read. This may be the root of your problem. It was suggested above and I am going to suggest it again.
I have been banging my head for almost a day and half on the dreaded "local only" network problem.
In my case, I'm running Vista Home Premium edition on an HP PC. Everything has been working fine for many months.
A few days ago, I tried to install Microsoft Security Essentials. I used standard uninstall procedure to strip out the copy of Norton that came with the computer and whose subscription expired a long time ago.
The Security Essentials installation failed. Then I noticed that I hadn't received any MS updates in several months. So I restored to the last restore point, which was dated right around the time when the OS updates stopped.
When I rebooted after going back to the restore point, I could no longer access the Internet.
Running ipconfig gave me an address starting with 169 indicating that my router didn't give me an ip address. I tried KB928233. I tried a hard coded, static IP address. I tried installing another, different network card. I tested my hardwired network connection with a laptop; it worked.
I noticed something odd in my network stack. There was the Client for Microsoft Networks. There was the normal protocol modules for TCP/IP. But there was also something from Symantec! Sheesh, it looked like Norton didn't get uninstalled completely or correctly.
Then I ran across this thread, thank goodness!!! I used the Norton removal tool and now everything is fine!!!
I have the same problem, that is, when I use wireless my computer identifies the router as "UNIDENTIFIED NETWORK" and connects with "Local Only". The wired connection works fine. I have tried everything proposed in this thread, including the KB928233, rebuilding the IP stack, Norton removal tool, everything. Nothing works.
What is really frustrating is the Microsoft must know that this is an unresolved issue, because it is clearly quite widespread, and yet they do not fix it. The only solution they propose here clearly doesn't work in many cases.
That is frustrating, but not surprising. Microsoft uses their customers as un-witting beta testers for all of their operating system releases.
