Vista and unknown routers

re: Vista and unknown routers

Alun Jones — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:22:44 GMT

Maybe their mother would rather have the kids be inconvenienced for a few days than have a stranger in a Starbucks enter administrative commands? I'm tempted to say that JamesB's comments show the benefit, rather than the downside, of UAC. JamesB can write down the command for the girls (in a Notepad window, even), so they can take the command to their mother to assess as to whether or not it's appropriate.

Ready for business? It's nice to have a laptop where the road warrior salesman isn't going to let John Random Stranger administer it. Now if we could only prevent them from giving away their BitLocker USB keys as parting gifts to customers.

re: Vista and unknown routers

James — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:25:55 GMT

I have batch files for enabling and disabling the autotuning in Vista on my laptop. Some of the places I admin, it has to be turned off or it's extremely painful to work over RDP with mouse actions taking 15-30 seconds to register.

re: Vista and unknown routers

bradley — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:36:32 GMT

Honestly sounds more like they needed to launch the browser and log into tmobile. My vista works fine on any Linksys or Starbucks. It's just hotels that I personally have seen this behavior.

re: Vista and unknown routers

bradley — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:13:48 GMT

Maybe their Mom doesn't want them online in the coffeeshop?

:-)

re: Vista and unknown routers

JamesB — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:08:30 GMT

I love that you posted on this topic as I just had an issue with this same stupidity of Vista this week.

I'm sitting in a wifi cafe doing my paperwork and two young high school girls are at the next table and can't get online. Being the nice guy I am I offered to take a look at there it was, "Wifi local only". So I need to run the command you list above but guess what, there's that UAC prompt that you say you never see. Oh well just click "ok" right and move on, NOT. The gals don't have the admin password because their mom setup the notebook.

So for one there is that nasty little UAC prompt you never say shows up. Second this whole issue is a result in MS making a change from something that worked just fine in XP to something that basically screws up with a large number of "non-Microsoft" DHCP servers (ya know those home routers we all have) for no apparent reason other than they wanted to chage it. Lastly this useless change wasted the afternoon for these two gals as they were there to work on a report for school and their mom wasn't coming back for two hours.

Vista, Business ready? Not in my businesses or customers.

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Jason Haley — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:01:41 GMT

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