ASUSNETBOOK: The saga continues; why I hate WINDOZE

Saturday, December 18, 2010

FROM A WINDOWS7 SUPPORT FORUM

>reinkefj; Hello and welcome to the forums.

thanks

>type ping 192.168.2.102 (that’s you)

times out (?)

>ping 192.168.2.1 (that’s your default gateway / inside edge of your router)

first ping works and the rest time out (?)

>ping 64.233.169.99 (that’s google’s ip)

time out

Additional facts:

(1) Thru up another wifi with some spare hardware to the same fios gateway. With a different wifi “name”, works fine.

(2) ASUS support says to “recover” (i.e., wipe the machine and start over). Seems like burning the bard to get rid of the mouse.

(3) Have a MACBOOKAIR that just came back from being fixed. It works fine on both wifis.

So I’m “working”, but befuddled?

Perhaps the “security fixes” that came down automagically from Microsoft, triggered a “Home Networking” setting, that then WINDOWS7STARTER could not fix.

I guess the smartest thing is to “burn the barn” and start over.

Luckily there’s NOTHING valuable on the machine.

Your thoughts?

And, thanks for the response. You beat the ASUS support person’s canned reply.

fjohn

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ASUSNETBOOK: Still broken

Friday, December 17, 2010

• Found a site that told me how to edit the “<space>2” out of the Home Network name. (You know, that thing you can’t create without a more expensive version of WINDOZE7!)

• ASUSNETBOOK connected just fine to the SPUHIL wireless guest wifi. (Argh! So it’s only the definition of my main home wifi network, that is screwed up.)

• NO reply to the post I left on http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-networking/

• NO reply on the ASUS support board http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techmailstatus.aspx?ID=WTM20101217034352241&SID=

Argh!

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