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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On 28 Jan 2024 at 17:46:41 GMT, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
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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On 28/01/2024 in message <l1o6c3FmjrqU1@mid.individual.net> Jaimie
Vandenbergh wrote:

On 28 Jan 2024 at 17:46:41 GMT, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
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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