: I asked a neighbor to let me have a look at his router in re: a problem he was having with home intarwebs, but he said he wanted an expert to check it out.
He did not know what A+, Network+, and Server certs are... or CompTIA. So he paid a dude $129 for a house call *and* paid $225 for a new gateway/wifi-router, and he gave his son (26) the old one because he asked for it.
The older (2017) router just needed the firmware updates it'd never had. So installed it at his girlfriend's house. 😄
: My neighbor is not a jackass. He's just 64. He is a carpenter, can do most electrical work on a house, repairs and restores vintage stereo equipment, can jam repairing cars, but he's not up on computerthings.
Like my mom (79), whenever technical computer talk starts, he zones out. Except printers. Apparently he's good with laser printer repair and getting them to stay on the damn network.
He's just out almost $400.
He came over and told me not long ago what happened and laughed about it.
Hey, at least he's open and teachable.
@Bliss: Yeah, he really is quite cool. He's a fantastic neighbor. He kinda has to be. He's Rylo's humans-in-residence.
This is my neighbor boi Rylo (sideways):
: He said he'll call me if he has trouble again. (He looked up what CompTIA is.)
😄
Living and learning.