This is for people who have been unsuccessful trying everything you've seen everywhere concerning the " limited or no connectivity " message arising when you installed Win XP's Service Pack 2... BTW I'm not using wireless connectivity and still had this problem.
Here is what I tried:
- Deleting Winsock and Winsock2 entries from the registry and re-installing TCP/IP from winXP CD
- Deleting Winsock and Winsock2 entries from the registry and importing those of a WinXP copy that was not updated with SP2 yet
- Running WinsockXP fix
- Running the Internet Connection wizard after installing SP2
- Re-installing original network card drivers
All these options I found here and there didn't work for me so I started playing around with network settings. I finally pinned down the problem (for me at least).
- Goto Network Connections
- In the Advanced menu, choose Advanced Settings
- In the Adapters and Bindings tab, uncheck all Microsoft TCP/IP version 6 checkboxes
- Clap your hands
That's it! I just hope this works for you. If you have the same problem I had, you are unable to use Peer-to-Peer connections, FTP connections and have trouble playing multiplayer games... which is obviously really annoying
If that doesn't work, something you could try is:
- Right click your Broadband connection in Network Connections
- Choose Properties
- Choose Internet Protocol
- Click Properties
- Choose the General Tab and click Advanced
- Choose the Options Tab
- Click TCP/IP Filtering and then Properties
- Uncheck Enable TCP/IP filtering (or check all 'permit all' options)
Okay, hope this helps, I can finally sleep!
I dream of the day when service packs will be service packs...
- Swass