Windows 8.1 users you have my sympathies.
A family member (not technically brilliant but capable) purchased a new PC from a major manufacturer with Windows 8.1
Wireless card would not work at 5Ghz and wouldn't hold a connection to his virgin media router for more than a few minutes at 2.4GHz ( the signal was fine the protocol stacks broke), he had to continually reset the interface on the PC.
I ripped out his firewall, fixed the router security so it was using AES rather than auto detecting, checked the MTU, eventually re-installed his drivers, reset winsock, reset (i.e rebuilt) his TCP/IP stack - netsh is your friend. Still no dice.
The wireless card will not work with Windows 8.1 and a Virgin Media router. The manufacturer knows this, Virgin sort of know there are 8.1 issues, Microsoft sort of know this. Nobody has fixed it.
Unbelievable mess, fair play to the shop though they refunded him. How have a mainstream OS and a mainstream PC vendor got into this mess? Getting networking right is surely a fundamental.
If your OS can't do that well what is it good for? In this case certainly not its user interface, which is utterly hopeless.
Also on a related rant - WTF are Virgin Media doing shipping new hubs with what looks like a default management password - with the management interface enabled over the Wi-Fi
I bet 50% of their customer base is wide open, log on to their router, set yourself up a guest network and lock them out. They can factory reset it, in which case you can probably do it again.
How hard is it to disable management on wireless connections? Basics.
Windows 8.1 users you have my sympathies.
A family member (not technically brilliant but capable) purchased a new PC from a major manufacturer with Windows 8.1
Wireless card would not work at 5Ghz and wouldn't hold a connection to his virgin media router for more than a few minutes at 2.4GHz ( the signal was fine the protocol stacks broke), he had to continually reset the interface on the PC.
I ripped out his firewall, fixed the router security so it was using AES rather than auto detecting, checked the MTU, eventually re-installed his drivers, reset winsock, reset (i.e rebuilt) his TCP/IP stack - netsh is your friend. Still no dice.
The wireless card will not work with Windows 8.1 and a Virgin Media router. The manufacturer knows this, Virgin sort of know there are 8.1 issues, Microsoft sort of know this. Nobody has fixed it.
Unbelievable mess, fair play to the shop though they refunded him. How have a mainstream OS and a mainstream PC vendor got into this mess? Getting networking right is surely a fundamental.
If your OS can't do that well what is it good for? In this case certainly not its user interface, which is utterly hopeless.
Also on a related rant - WTF are Virgin Media doing shipping new hubs with what looks like a default management password - with the management interface enabled over the Wi-Fi :smack:
I bet 50% of their customer base is wide open, log on to their router, set yourself up a guest network and lock them out. They can factory reset it, in which case you can probably do it again.
How hard is it to disable management on wireless connections? Basics.