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I made some gains today. The laptop would connect and displayed connected, no internet. Ping to a site had no replies.
I checked the wireless nic driver configuration and found that roaming was disabled. I set it to highest. Then it connected. That would explain why I suddenly got connection to a router after I had hard wired to it. (not roaming, known wired connection)
Ping to a site then returned normally. That indicated that hardware and DNS were working. No site would respond to an attempt to connect.
After trying several things, I disabled the AVG firewall. Then the internet worked. Of course that configuration is not acceptable. I need to call AVG for some support.
In my examination I determined that the wireless nic driver was installed by the windoze upgrade about 4 am while I was sleeping. It set the parameters wrong, and must have upset the AVG firewall parameters as well. I smell a rat there.