• Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    21 days ago

    My older laptop stopped working with my WiFi at some point, I had to buy a wireless dongle to work with the newer wifi equipment.

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      20 days ago

      That’s what’s so weird. This laptop isn’t ancient but it couldn’t find anything. The older laptop looked like it was from 2009 and was connected to the internet

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        20 days ago

        what os on the non-ancient laptop? I’m guessing some proprietary wlan handler that windows is having a bargy with

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          20 days ago

          It was out of the box Windows 10. It seemed like a mid-tier laptop for the time, I can’t remember brand. These people probably just go to JB Hi-Fi and buy a $500 laptop when they’re on sale so I haven’t seen anything too exotic in my support sessions so far