Windows XP was connecting to my wireless router with full strength, but I couldn’t browse any internet sites.
After much wrangling, resetting, and rebooting, I found WinSock XP Fix off a web forum and within a minute and a reboot internet was working again! Ahh, the pleasures of surfing supine in bed.
The developer doesn’t host the program, you can get it at snapfiles: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html