In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router
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@boomzilla And how much in labor did he spend walking around 150 rooms?
Plus I linked the deluxe Fluke one because, again, it's a local company.
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@blakeyrat said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
And how much in labor did he spend walking around 150 rooms?
$50, tops. :P
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@blakeyrat said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
Plus I linked the deluxe Fluke one because, again, it's a local company.
I can only read the words that you typed.
@blakeyrat said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
And how much in labor did he spend walking around 150 rooms?
Regardless of amount, better spent than on video game time.
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@Captain said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
I would have happily done the updates. While I slept.
I got into the habit years ago of just sleeping my desktop instead of turning it off. Normally it'll auto-apply updates at 3AM or whatever.
For a laptop you have to help out, perhaps by plugging it in and turning it on in the evening. Or you could, because "I shouldn't have to" not do that, and suffer by not being able to run a meeting or whatever from time to time.
I get the purist stance, I really do, but I don't want to be in a position where I look like I don't know what I'm doing by having Windows Update go "time to reboot, sucker!" in a meeting.
@Captain said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
I wonder if I can open up a port (or use the VPN) and join the domain from home. (Actually I know I can do it with the VPN...)
If you can connect to the domain, you can join the domain. Normally that means you need the VPN, as far as I know.
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@anotherusername said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
Maybe it should update on a schedule that's convenient for me, rather than one convenient for it. And maybe my schedule requires me to reboot it when it's not convenient for me to let it do the updates.
Sure, maybe it should. You can keep saying that, and be greatly inconvenienced once in a while, or you can get off your high horse and get shit done.
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@anotherusername said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
What's wrong with the night after the big presentation?
Other than the fact that Windows may not wait that long, if it's already been too long since it downloaded the updates? Nothing.
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@Captain said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
Supposedly there are stickers on the tiles, but that is a LIE. There are no stickers.
They're probably on the top.
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@FrostCat said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
If you can connect to the domain, you can join the domain. Normally that means you need the VPN, as far as I know.
IIRC there was a way to offline-join but I can't remember the steps.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
IIRC there was a way to offline-join but I can't remember the steps.
Sure, you can do it the hard way. But if you turn on the laptop when you get in in the morning, you'd probably have been done even with 200 updates, with enough time to join the domain before you leave for the day.
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@FrostCat said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
@anotherusername said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
What's wrong with the night after the big presentation?
Other than the fact that Windows may not wait that long, if it's already been too long since it downloaded the updates? Nothing.
Correct. Other than the thing that's wrong with Windows, there's nothing wrong with Windows. Carry on.
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@anotherusername said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
Carry on.
I will, while you're telling the customer you'll be waiting half an hour for Windows Update to finish so you can start the GoToMeeting with him, because you were too pure to let it run this morning.
Which kind of BS is why I do it
myMicrosoft's way.
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@FrostCat It was already on since last night.
3 hours later, the updates are done and I joined the domain and I'm out the door.
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@Captain said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
It was already on since last night.
I'm assuming it's been quite a while since you had it turned on, if it had that many updates. In such circumstances, I will try to have manually kicked off the updates the night before.
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@FrostCat I installed it last night.
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@FrostCat said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
I'm assuming it's been quite a while since you had it turned on
Infinite time, due to new install.
Fake edit: Yes, ...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
Infinite time, due to new install.
Ah. I've learned to manually fire off a check for updates with a new machine as soon as it's booted, and then keep doing it until it stops offering me new ones.
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@FrostCat said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
Ah. I've learned to
manually fire off a checkWSUS offline for updates with a new machine as soon as it's booted, and then keep doing it until it stops offering me new ones.FTFY, at least you'll only have a few updates after that's done.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
FTFY
Not unless you're going to tell me where to find one of those.
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@FrostCat said in In which @Captain looks for a lost wifi router:
Not unless you're going to tell me where to find one of those.
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@Captain Is it still broadcasting any SSIDs? If so, stick this on your phone and walk it around:
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@flabdablet Timely suggestion. And not at all a duplicate.