So.... A friend was having problems getting his outdated WinXP netbook to connect to his Wifi & came up today to have me show him... And then I struggled with it because THANK YOU ONLINE GUIDES FOR BEING UNHELPFUL. What I was having problems with was not being able to enter the security password... As it turns out, you can if you choose WPA2-PSK. Yeah, had to learn that nugget on my own because NOTHING else I was reading mentioned that.
As soon as I had that figured out, BAM! his netbook logged on my Wifi & connected. Next was him wanting to get into his Gmail on that (I don't know why) & I told him his Google account would work. It should, right? So we eventually get the login info & password paired & try logging in on the netbook... And no bueno. Not letting us / him in. Maybe Gmail does have a separate password? I mean there was that problem of Youtubers getting malicious emails & then their channel got hacked so maybe..??
But anywho, once he has his own wifi name, security, & password from home figured out, I can get that figured in & hopefully working. After that he might have to change his Google password again...?
Hopefully when he picks up a "new" computer at a pawn shop, it's got Windows 10 at least, decent specs & a solid state drive of some type. Right now, I'm tasked with cleaning the keyboard because otherwise it works reasonably well & needs a currently WinXP supported browser.
