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Really unfortunate terminology that molds peoples ideas of the internet, being able to access a website is pretty far from having full internet access. Calculated or not, it was also in MS interests to lead people to think this way. It should check if you are behind NAT and then say "Your computer doesn't have full Internet access but can reach some services via a gateway"
Doing this during a Windows 11 install will result in a road block until you fix said connection issues. You literally can't proceed without finding a hidden terminal and disabling the process and restarting. Insane.
Really unfortunate terminology that molds peoples ideas of the internet, being able to access a website is pretty far from having full internet access. Calculated or not, it was also in MS interests to lead people to think this way. It should check if you are behind NAT and then say "Your computer doesn't have full Internet access but can reach some services via a gateway"
Everyone with a home router is behind NAT.
Today most home networks have NAT for for v4, and then NATless IPv6 (or no IPv6 as the case may be).
Trivia: NAT is not routing, the normative router requirements RFC actually specifically forbids tampering with the IP source or destination address fields.
I'm not sure if it's still in use but iPhones used to hit http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html to test connectivity. I used to use it to test connectivity on my own apps because Apple is probably better at making sure a url reachable than I am.
I believe they hit http://captive.apple.com now (and that's what I use).
http://neverssl.com also works
And https://1.1.1.1 breaks people's brains if they know enough
Two things I’ve always wanted to do is figure out how to cache windows updates on my local network without an enterprise windows install, and how to block windows updates by sinkholing domains and/or ip addresses (I work in IT security). Can anyone give any tips on either of these?
Why do you want to block windows updates?
I'd love to know how Apple decides if a Wifi network is usable or not. For some reason my home network is flagged as a "Mobile" network and people connected to it can't update to the latest version of iOS etc. Is it because I've also created a Mobile Hotspot with the same SSID on a spare mobile phone I have, so my family can use their iPads out and about without having to connect to a new Wifi network? (i.e. I just w…
You should be able to set wifi network priority so "home network" is first but if not available it automatically goes to "phone network".
Really unfortunate terminology that molds peoples ideas of the internet, being able to access a website is pretty far from having full internet access. Calculated or not, it was also in MS interests to lead people to think this way. It should check if you are behind NAT and then say "Your computer doesn't have full Internet access but can reach some services via a gateway"
And to my parents that will mean nothing
I suppose you could spoof having full Internet access by hosting nsci.txt or connecttest.txt locally and editing your hosts file to direct www.msftncsi.com or www.msftconnecttest.com to 127.0.0.1 ? Conversely, if those Microsoft websites ever failed, countless Windows machines would determine that they have limited or no Internet access.
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What server do you suggest they use? Android uses Google servers is that also abusive?
I don't want that sh*t to be there in the first place. No one knows better than the end user. And also, if the user could not reach some M$ server does not mean users' network was not connected to the internet. Anyway, won't be a trouble for me much longer. Retiring all my Windows instances, had enough.
Micro$oft is trying to define what is and is not 'internet' access, eg. they turn the definition of 'internet' to mean unfettered access to the micro$oft servers is and you're ability to send personal information over to them.
Doing this during a Windows 11 install will result in a road block until you fix said connection issues. You literally can't proceed without finding a hidden terminal and disabling the process and restarting. Insane.
This is why I refuse to update or upgrade Windows or my iPhone. They just keep over-engineering stuff and somehow it's always worse.