A friend in the village was given a new computer earlier this year.
Alas it is running Windows XP which he had never used and I have
little experience with. I offered to update it as I have broadband
and did my best to set it up. After many-many reboots and many hours
of downloading over a 2MBit
pipe I gave it back fully patched and configured.
The built-in modem refused to work and after several goes, even
from a Linux live disk we gave up concluding it was duff. Another
friend gave his modem and this week we tried to use that. It worked
perfectly when we tried it earlier this week, but today it was less
than happy. Windows XP really is a pain when it comes to hardware - it
is defiantly much less reliable and predictable than Linux or Mac.
After a few minuets of "phone support" support tonight he is back
online. I only hope the world of 56Kbps
isn't too slow and frustrating.
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