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By: - 1st August 2012 at 12:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Does my head in as well, we have no problem with the phones connecting to the wireless in the morning and picking up the routers, however by the evening the laptop is fine but the phones don't connect, only option being to unplug the router, let it cool a bit and start it up again. For once the old 'turn it off and on again' really does work.
As for the different o/s the amount of time spent configuring them to work how I want, why do they have to try and be clever and hide stuff away or think that all users are idiots who shouldn't play with registry settings, OSX or Windows just as bad as each other. Having said that Vista wasn't too bad but Windows 7 has been a bit of a pain, might just skip 8 completely.
By: - 1st August 2012 at 13:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
After an hour on the phone to BT technical help in India my problems have been 'solved' (well, it's working for now). They claimed it was all down to my laptop but I watched them change some of my BT Home-Hub settings (requiring my admin password) and when I suggested as much I just got the usual repeated 'It is working now' response! :rolleyes:
That is over two hours on the phone to technical help since May just to get the service I'm paying for to actually work!
The trouble is I don't know how to 'configure the registry settings' (I am one of the 'idiots' - like most computer users) by why should I have to? Surely computers don't need to be this complicated?
Why is it that I can jump into a hire-car anywhere in the world and be speeding along a motorway minutes later with complete confidence (a situation that really could kill me) when I can't seem to get a computer to display a simple website without needing a degree in computer science?
Imagine your brand-new car stopping on a motorway and being told that you just needed to reconfigure the transmission and then technical help talking you through it...
...yes, just open the bonnet, disconnect the battery, right now jack-up your car and crawl underneath, disconnect the starter motor cables...
...how long would that car manufacturer stay in business? :rolleyes:
By: - 1st August 2012 at 14:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Computers work perfectly until some idiot loads any operating system and/or software on them.:diablo::diablo:
By: - 1st August 2012 at 14:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
For ****'s sake!!! :mad:
Now, just typing a letter 'b' into google causes it to instantly crash!!! :confused:
Is it me? :(
By: - 1st August 2012 at 15:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
CD,what did u upgrade XP too?
By: - 1st August 2012 at 16:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Still XP just with all the 'updates' (laptop hadn't been used for six months).
I like XP, on the whole, as it seems the most reliable Microsoft product (not saying much really) since NT. The 'back-up' laptop uses Vista (which I now officially loath); a dozen different ways to do exactly what XP used to do without crashing every five seconds! :rolleyes:
By: - 1st August 2012 at 20:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
CD
I share your pain !
I think its all to do with making money............
best of luck anyway!
By: - 1st August 2012 at 20:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Crashes are rarely caused by the OS but more often by a buggy driver.
'limited connectivity' means exactly that - the laptop is having issues talking to the wireless router. The cause of this can be any number of things from misconfigured settings to overlapping channel id's to misconfigured wep/WPA keys and yet again, buggy drivers or even down to water pipes being in the way.
So, the first thing to do is ensure that you have the correct drivers.
Then check that the router is actually talking wireless
Check that the SSID is broadcasting
Check what encryption protocol you are using
Confirm that on the laptop the same encryption settings are being used.
connect.
By: - 1st August 2012 at 22:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Excellent advice I'm sure.....but this is all 'look under the bonnet (hood) stuff'!
Frankly, I don't know how to do any of that stuff (and I'm sure 99% of the population don't either)...
...so why are we (still) being sold computers that require this level of user knowledge? :confused:
By: - 2nd August 2012 at 00:31 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
You are not. There is nothing you need to do. Simply take it to someone (like a computer repair shop) and pay them to fix it for you.
This is the exact same thing as a car or airplane. If something goes wrong with either you pay someone with the right skillset to fix it and yet you don't complain about aircraft or cars still needing specialist skills to fix them.
By: - 2nd August 2012 at 16:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
...you don't complain about aircraft or cars still needing specialist skills to fix them.
I bloody would if they needed 'specialist skills' as often as my computer! :D
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By: Creaking Door - 1st August 2012 at 11:47
Why are computers so ****! :mad:
My PC motherboard went 'phut' the other day (PC was six years old and had once survived getting drenched after a pipe burst so fair enough) so I had to fall-back on a old laptop. That worked for a while until I 'upgraded' windows XP and then it became very erratic on Wi-Fi, then it wouldn't connect to the internet via Wi-Fi any more and then finally it refused to even work when wired into the router!
Over to (newer) 'back-up' laptop. This was a non-starter with Wi-Fi protesting 'limited connectivity' and only working via cable.
I've tried to discover what 'limited connectivity' actually means but it seems to be a cover-all term for the general unremitting appalling ureliability of modern computer systems; nobody seems to know what it actually is and the 'cures' seem to stretch from 'switching the router off and back on' to 'buying a new PC'! :rolleyes:
Is it just me? Why do we put up with this crap!
Can anybody help.....or at least sympathise! :(