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That's what's so weird. This laptop isn't ancient but it couldn't find anything. The older laptop looked like it was from 2009 and was connected to the internet
what os on the non-ancient laptop? I'm guessing some proprietary wlan handler that windows is having a bargy with
It was out of the box Windows 10. It seemed like a mid-tier laptop for the time, I can't remember brand. These people probably just go to JB Hi-Fi and buy a $500 laptop when they're on sale so I haven't seen anything too exotic in my support sessions so far