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  • Win 10 Internet Connection

    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 28 17:46:41 2024
    The world was cut off from our village last week after the storms due to floods. Worse, the power to one of the green cabinets went down and it
    took 4 days for OR to connect us again.

    I spent the time switching between being tethered to the mobile and
    checking if the landline was back up. As a consequence the Internet icon
    on my desktop was the globe covered in a fishing net and a tooltip saying
    "no Internet".

    Once the Internet was back the desktop connected fine and all was working except for Windows update which decided that I wasn't connected to the
    Internet so wouldn't even look for updates. After two days fiddling the
    proper Internet icon appeared on the taskbar whereupon Windows updated
    itself.

    I should probably have just re-booted but I'm interested to know how
    Windows checks whether of not there is Internet access. Email & browser (neither MSFT) were perfectly happy but not the OS.

    Any thoughts?

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not
    expect to sit.

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 28 23:30:11 2024
    On 28 Jan 2024 at 17:46:41 GMT, ""Jeff Gaines"" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Any thoughts?

    Well, the first thought that came to mind is that Windows being bad at networking is not any sort of surprise to me.

    Cheers - Jaimie
    --
    I always wanted to be someone. I should have been more specific.
    -- Lily Tomlin

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Vandenbergh on Mon Jan 29 08:28:21 2024
    On 28/01/2024 in message <[email protected]> Jaimie
    Vandenbergh wrote:

    On 28 Jan 2024 at 17:46:41 GMT, ""Jeff Gaines"" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Any thoughts?

    Well, the first thought that came to mind is that Windows being bad at >networking is not any sort of surprise to me.

    Cheers - Jaimie

    Ain't that the truth :-)

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    How does a gender neutral bog differ from a unisex bog ?
    It has a non-binary number on the door.

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