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Thanks for the update Lee

Get well soon Bob

I did a quick signal check the other day to see exactly how bad the drop is. Standing in the living room I got -30dBm on the Android app Wifi Analyzer, but going the other side of the wall it dropped straight to -50dBm. I was less than 2ft from the router. Going through to the bedrooms sees it drop even more (the living room and kitchen are…[Read more]

My home install has stalled for the moment. TT messed me around again last week, and claimed that I registered a fault on the line, which I didn’t. That’s opened a process on their end that means I have to give them 30 days to resolve it. It’s a load of crap, but I gave them this week to see if they could fix my speeds before I switch away. They…[Read more]

Thanks Dave

Sorry I’m a bit slow replying. I jinxed myself this time. I realised last night that after a rearrange in the office, I hadn’t turned the Synology back on. I turned it on and it beeped like crazy for ages while I was trying to log in. One of the hard drives has started to fail

After a few hours of moving files around I…[Read more]

Do you know of any decent guides? I think I’ve got it all sorted, but I don’t want to test it like these guys

I think you jinxed me Ed. About 30 seconds after I read your post last night, there was a huge clap of thunder and my internet went down

My PSU has been a bit flaky since the new build and graphics card, so I put the spinner in a USB2 caddy while I waited to get a new PSU. With a few small exceptions (running VMs for example), I’ve barely noticed the difference.

Thanks Dave

Ouch! I always forget how much decent wifi kit costs

On the bright side, Ellen’s already okayed it, so I can’t get put in the doghouse, and I told her the price for the Ubiquiti kit, as this guy I know who knows lots about networks is always going on about how good they are  

The only downside is…[Read more]

That’s odd, the link I sent myself was to this cat 5e cable:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00I71B0O4/

I don’t know how I linked the cat6

Thanks for the replies, it’s good to know I’m on the right track for once I forgot to mention, I’ve got a cable tester from when I was supposed to do the old house (12 years and counting……[Read more]

Troy Total War is free until 2pm

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/a-total-war-saga-troy/home

Sorry Bob, I’ve only just seen this.

Hope everything went ok and you’re recovering nicely. Take care :)

I’ll be ringing Talktalk to get this changed. I can’t even see Talktalk’s pricing, they’re hiding behind a phone number, so I can see me cancelling. Three have lost my trust though, as I’ve got a Three broadband contract set up and active at this address, but actually in my father’s house about a mile away, and today, after over a month of…[Read more]

It won’t install here. It tried on my main machine and crashed, then automatically rolled back, and hasn’t even tried on anything else. It’s got the pending message on them all, but hasn’t gone any further.

Turn off the wifi on your phone, give it a minute for the 4G to connect, then restart the phone. Every now and then my phone ‘sticks’ on a lower speed. Restarting the phone this way seems to force it to reconnect properly, and my speeds go up to what they should be.

Would putting a sign up saying ‘Number 17 is away until the end of the month’ be considered unethical?

Bloody hell Bob, you don’t have things easy do you?

Get well soon

I gave up on Dropbox a few years ago when I found out that it had been renaming my photos.

I moved house and was waiting for the internet to be connected, so I manually copied my phone photos to my computer. When I was reconnected, I noticed that Dropbox was still copying files. When I loked, it had changed the filenames from the phone’s IMGxxxx…[Read more]