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

[File under: Networking]