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Originally Posted by cpapplefamily
It worked every time in the pits tethered but not on the field. Turns out after disabling the windows 7 fire wall it started to work.
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I suspect that you were running afoul of the "advanced" firewall configuration options. The firewall can be individually configured to be enabled or disabled for different categories of network. Your computer had probably ended up set to think that the field network was a "public" one, and the directly-tethered network was a "work" one, or something like that, so it didn't actually activate the firewall unless you were connected through the field network.
Shutting off the firewall completely is a several-step process. If you don't know that, it's easy to think you have turned it off but have it still lurking around ready to come back when you connect to a different network.