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I read yesterday that AVG on Vista had been causing network issues for some people. I’ve had some of those issues with my WiFi connectivity – disconnects as often as every 15 minutes. Usually, it stays connected about 45 minutes then disconnects unless I force the connection to stay active by moving files around my network. Sadly, moving large files started failing about and hour into the move – disconnection.

Last night, I de-installed AVG from my Vista-64 host. At the end, a reboot was required, but the machine refused to come back up, BSOD, twice. Safe mode boot did work so I forced a checkdisk. Over 2 hours later, the system rebooted and seems to be working. I haven’t been wifi disconnected at all since then. Everything seems just a tiny bit faster. I’m not really worried about viruses on that box since it is used to run virtual machines, VirtualBox. I’ve been running an Ubuntu VM for about 3 hours now. No issues.

Update: About an hour later, the network got slow and I lost my ssh connection to another box on my network. This issue never existed with WinXP. It appears that AVG may not be the cause … just Vista-64 Home Premium remains. That OS sucks.