Very pleased with myself today. I am no techie which is why I went down the Apple mac route 20 years ago (this is not a cue for an argument).
Anyway with absolutely no knowledge of Windows I managed to resurrect a Dell laptop that has not been switched on for 4 years and had reached it's limit of windows 10 which of course is no longer supported.
Eldest daughter was told she needed Microsoft PowerBi for school work. More than half the class are wedded to Macs as is she. PowerBi will not work on OSX and she was assured the browser based version does not offer the functionality required.
Powered up the Dell but would not find the Starlink wifi.
Intel network card also no longer supported and it turns out will not work with 5 ghz wifi which the Starlink defaults to.
Found an Ethernet cable to connect Dell to router.
Starlink quite cleverly allows two different wifi networks to be set up, one for 2.4ghz and one for 5.0ghz.
Only way to get network card to find the 2.4ghz wifi was to uninstall and reinstall and reboot windows. All this took about 5 hours.
Success!!
We wont know until Friday if the school WIFI works on 2.4ghz though.
Anyway with absolutely no knowledge of Windows I managed to resurrect a Dell laptop that has not been switched on for 4 years and had reached it's limit of windows 10 which of course is no longer supported.
Eldest daughter was told she needed Microsoft PowerBi for school work. More than half the class are wedded to Macs as is she. PowerBi will not work on OSX and she was assured the browser based version does not offer the functionality required.
Powered up the Dell but would not find the Starlink wifi.
Intel network card also no longer supported and it turns out will not work with 5 ghz wifi which the Starlink defaults to.
Found an Ethernet cable to connect Dell to router.
Starlink quite cleverly allows two different wifi networks to be set up, one for 2.4ghz and one for 5.0ghz.
Only way to get network card to find the 2.4ghz wifi was to uninstall and reinstall and reboot windows. All this took about 5 hours.
Success!!
We wont know until Friday if the school WIFI works on 2.4ghz though.