cannot communicate with www.microsoft.com (207.46.192.254)

I have windows vista basic edition and at least once a day sometimes twice my
internet connection looses connectivity. I get an error message saying

"cannot communicate with www.microsoft.com (207.46.192.254)

network diagnostics pinged the remote host but did not receive a response"

I have to restart my computer everytime this happens and it gets rather
annoying.

I've tried everything the fix the problem but it still keeps happening.

Any help??

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:27:00 -0700, Missie
<Missie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have windows vista basic edition and at least once a day sometimes twice my
>internet connection looses connectivity. I get an error message saying
>
>"cannot communicate with www.microsoft.com (207.46.192.254)
>
>network diagnostics pinged the remote host but did not receive a response"
>
>I have to restart my computer everytime this happens and it gets rather
>annoying.
>
>I've tried everything the fix the problem but it still keeps happening.
>
>Any help??

The Microsoft web site never replies to pings. Pinging it isn't a
valid test of Internet connectivity.

Can you ping other sites? Ones that I use to test connectivity are
google.com and yahoo.com.

Are there any error messages about networking or TCP/IP in Event
Viewer?
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You don't say what hardware to use to connect.
1 Ring your ISP re the problem; it may be their software!
2. If you use a router, update the Firmware.
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"Missie" wrote:

> I have windows vista basic edition and at least once a day sometimes twice my
> internet connection looses connectivity. I get an error message saying
>
> "cannot communicate with www.microsoft.com (207.46.192.254)
>
> network diagnostics pinged the remote host but did not receive a response"
>
> I have to restart my computer everytime this happens and it gets rather
> annoying.
>
> I've tried everything the fix the problem but it still keeps happening.
>
> Any help??
>
>

Are you actually trying to get on to MS? Could just be the pc polling
for updates or time or something like that. Could be a firewall setting
or something recently changed in IE???


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[Tom Moorman]

Started using Vista Business Jan 5, frequently go to Gramophone's website (2 or more times a week) begining July 6 can't get there anymore. The message I get is "Cannot communicate with Gramophone - Home - The world's best classical music magazine (92.52.75.182) Network diagnostics pinged the remote host but did not receive a response."

Emailed Gramophone, they are not experiencing any problems. Asked a couple of local friends to try the site and they had no problems. Took down my firewall, still no access. What has happened?

[celled]

I've been able to visit the site xtaciturn.info and have quite frequently until about a week ago it said that I couldn't connect to the site but I can connect to it at school and other places. I ran the network diagnostics and all it said was the windows cannot communicate with the site but I know for a fact it's up and running. What's going on and how can I fix it? Running vista home

[celled]

So after fiddling around with some stuff I come to find that I can view the site using one of those free proxy anonymous web browsing sites but I can't view it regularly. What's up with that?