Annoying and presumptuous though they might have been, Chris, could it be that
the company was being security-conscious when setting that minimum standard?
Might the IT bods have thought that anything before that was unsafe on the
Internet or on an open WiFi net?
Chris
On 27 Feb 2014, at 21:36, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Returning home, I got out the Win7/IE9/Firefox hard drive that came with
> this laptop, installed it, then installed the software for the USB wireless
> adapter. Went back to the coffee shop, and here I am enjoying full internet
> access once again.
>
> Here's what they did: When 19CL remotely reconfigured the WiFi hub two
> days ago, they set it up to deny access to any laptop that was using an
> operating system prior to Win7 or that was using a browser prior to IE9, then
> telling the user that the 19CL equipment was working fine and that the user
> was entirely at fault. Uh-huh!
>
> They almost had me fooled once before, but they didn't fool me this time.
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