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Monday, July 18, 2005

GF Hates Networking

GF has been off the air for several hours. The root cause is networking. GF hates networking. He has spent 33+ years in IT and related consulting and still hates networking. The story goes like this:
  • GF's laptop and home desktop computer are on the same network
  • When using wired connections GF can successfully share printers and files
  • Each machine connects to Internet via a hub/router with NATS firewall
  • When using wireless network, GF can share files, but not print.

So in a fit of pique GF decided to try and fix this... and used Microsoft's helpful wizard to reconfig his home network. Result:
  • Main home PC would not connect to internet at all
  • Laptop would not connect to Starfleet, but would connect to the internet
  • Wireless feature of laptop seems to have been blown away

GF was NOT a happy bunny.
  • Tried the System Restore features to return him to sanity - failed, would not restore.

  • Tried reconfiguuring several times - problem appeared to lie in "bridging" and Internet Connection Firewall.
  • Internet connection now restored
  • Starfleet connections restored
  • Wireless still buggered

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