I have a Speedtouch 716WL and use its inbuilt 802.11g wireless with a few laptops around the house. Recently I got a new Vista tablet and whilst it works great on the wirless for general email & web browsing, I’ve found that I can’t use any SMB shares or remote desktop to any PC on my LAN from my Vista notebook. XP notebooks are fine.

If I remote desktop, it will connect to the destination machine, briefly showing the logon screen before kicking me off saying that the remote computer ended the connection. Trying to browse to SMB shares invariably causes explorer to hang.

I contacted Alcatel about it and they’re aware of the problem. The resolution is to switch to using WEP instead of WPA-PSK on the speedtouch. Not a great workaround…

Update: Alcatel have got back to me and said that they’re due to release new firmware "shortly" that fixes this. Appendages crossed then…