VirtualLarry
No Lifer
- Aug 25, 2001
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Kind of like my Mom. Her internet router, at least a four-year-old Dlink AC750 "round" router that handles gigabit LAN, picked up on ebay some years ago for $10 BNIB.I know, but some people just don't want change.
You know the hell i went though convincing my Mom she had to upgrade her phone, not because its broken and she needed a new one, but because its old, dated, and the battery no longer held full charge.
You know what she ended up making me do?
Yup change the battery and never mention the word upgrade again. lol.
After a few months later the phone finally started having issues, and she finally changed, because i refused to get it repaired.
Some people just don't like too much change. :T
Although in both cases i really recommend it.
Well, something was up with her wifi last week. Rebooting the laptop didn't help, and rebooting (power off-on) the router, resulted in only one of the LEDs lighting up.
Fast-forward to this week, mysteriously, it works again.
So, either it's getting flaky, and dropping the wifi, or it was hacked, and potentially flashed / compromised.
So I got her a refurb TPLink AX1500 off of Amazon some time back.
I'm not in good enough health to go over there. She had a friend over at the end of last week, but "because it was now working, we didn't want to mess with it".
Trying to convince her that a router that hasn't seen updates in years should be replaced with something a little more modern... that probably won't see any updates for years, either. Thanks, TPLink, for your mediocre support policies with regards to router firmware.
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