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Normalizing broadly should mean all the tracks will play at the same volume – so if they are from different sources, after normalising they can all be played without adjusting the volume for each track. I did this for al the mp3s on the USB stic in my car – I used a free program but can’t rmember its name. There are different types of normalisation techniques – giving slightly different results. It doesn’t always work well – especially if the original mp3 encoding was done poorly.

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Dave Rice wrote:

I’m amazed Asus have screwed up the VDSL side, even the cheapest xDSL router I’ve bought has been OK in that department. The DrayTek Vigor 130 does the same job and it’s a true bridge so you need a PPPoE or PPPoA device after it. This allows you to then use the likes of a Synology RT1900ac router which is the dogs doo-dahs for USB drive sharing but is Ethernet only.

They really did Dave – here is the forum link – a real dog’s dinner and a real shame. One consolation prize (I’d still rather have one box doing it all) is that tinkering and rebooting the router doesn’t affect the WAN connection and so doesn’t/shouldn’t cause speed to get negotiated down. The router that replaced it (RT-AC87U) is stellar – wifi covers the whole house – the Ubiquiti AP you recommended way back serves the bottom of the garden and an incredible distance beyond! It is wall mounted and most people think it is an Alarm! Would be streaming the cricket through it now if it wasn’t so gloomy here.

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Dave Rice wrote:

The white box doesn’t contain any credentials, I know of no way to access them. AFAIK it just presents the VDSL as an Ethernet connection. They were a stop gap until VDSL modems became common in routers. When you get a VDSL router there is no point in keeping them. All it does it use up an Ethernet port.

Dave I totally agree in principle. That is the reason I plumped for the Asus DSL-AC68U a while back – in practice though the VDSL side of that device was very poor. Liking the Asus firmware options that is why I dug out the Openreach modem (white box) and went for the Asus RT-AC87U – which hasn’t skipped a beat. The white box is an extra plug (mains) socket but the router has a dedicated WAN port so it doesn’t lose an ethernet port.

If they (Asus) did a reliable VDLS modem router with support for DD-WRT/Merlin/Tomato etc firmware I’d bite their hand off.

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I have a router with a separate  BT “white box” (an ECI or Huawei modem). My credentials (BT Business) go in the router not the white box. When my (old) router was playing up I connected my laptop direct to the white box and had to enter the credentials (BT) in the Network Connection setup on the laptop. If there’s anything hard-coded in to yours (Duke) maybe there’s a way to recover it – done it a few times for Sky Hubs using Wireshark.

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Slight word of warning I had the Asus DSL-AC68U with built in modem. Perfect on paper for me but it was horrific. Got it from Overclockers whose forum had about a hundred page thread on it with most users returning it. I did too, despite numerous firmware updates it would still disconnect every hour or so.

I went back to the BT modem and am using the Asus RT-AC87U – which has been excellent. It runs many firmware variants, I’m running Merlin which has lots of nice tweaks like selective VPN (i.e. certain MAC addresses or IPs use the VPN while others don’t). Had it a couple of years so not sure what the current models are, but while I recommend Asus from my experience I wouldn’t go for one of their modem routers for FTTC.

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Should be fine I think – the dearer ones are higher specced which is handy if you are streaming or have multiple clients simultaneously, but as ever with Amazon – can go back if no good. Be interested to see you how you get on – especially the VPN if you try it.

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I should think so. I use this one which will bridge wifi or ethernet to a local hotspot, and has the advantage that it also supports OpenVPN (either to your own router or a paid service – if you don’t want the VPN feature it is overkill.) I think the local logon portal would be extended to the client (on the hotspot side) but not 100%.

Another option would be a 2nd usb wifi adapter for a laptop and create a hotspot on the laptop?

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I’d agree would be worth contacting an independent Window repairer. Had to do that for a non-standard bathroom double glazed window that had cracked on the outer pane. He did one and even found a bit of matching frosted glass – all for £25.

Another idea would be to contact a PVC supplier (rather than Window company) – asking the question (about best way to bond and seal) they may be able to sell you something or at least tell you what you want. We have a local one I’ve used (for window quadrant in my case) that does all sorts. I know they won’t be local to you but I think they have other branches – in any case maybe worth a phone call. There are a few different strands of the business (same phone sumber) – I have it as Summers PVC and the number is:

01708 722844

 

 

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In the end have found another site that puts a different wrapper round the same radio stream and displays the volume slider in all browsers (Chrome included)

Main Site

My Link

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That is superb PM. As a slight aside – if you opt for their paid-for warranty (i.e. if the extended warranty is not included on an item) and don’t invoke it then you get your money back at the end of the extended warranty period (as long as you remember – a challenge in itself these days!). Lucky enough to have an RS shop a mile away.

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Thanks all – got lots of ways round it (there’s a volume addon for chrome, use a different browser etc). I’m more curious than anything…….Dave not got Flash enabled anywhere that I can see. FF (which shows the volume slider) won’t play a test flash video. I have turned off flash wherever I can.

 

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Cheers Drezha – using windows right?

 

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cheers and cheers (don’t know what went wrong posting). I wonder why Chrome displays it different? I’m puzzled more that anything.

 

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Cheers PM – can you try another browser – for me all the others render the page different with a slider – no worries if not (Chromebook?)

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Even funnier you mention that – I did finally get ARC working – simple as a badly seated optical cable I don’t use it as am also using the receiver as an HDMI switch in a ridiculously complicated (for me) but simple (for the others) set up. I do love Richer Sounds btw….new telly came from there, price matched with a 6 year guarantee.

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Bought a 4K HDR TV recently and was blown away by the quality of the 4K Roku content on it. However a few months down the line I don’t notice anymore.  Was at my mum’s yesterday (1080i Sky on a 1080p TV) – perfctly fine, didn’t think – oh that is worse – I remember we talked about thi on MM – bad sound will get or your thruppenies a lot more than a poorer (but stable) picture. Content is the king and alothough there is more of it there is also a lot more absolute tat.

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Dave’s sugestion is how I always do this.

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Dave Rice wrote:

There’s a 480GB for £69.99 http://tinyurl.com/y8q8chtf Quite tempted by that one. EDIT – temptation was too much

Looks like the 480GB has gone up a few quid on Ebuyer but is still £69.99 at Amazon

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Great spot Boris – don’t need one ……or do I ?

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and encourage the black market………thriving for booze and especially fags. Some of the fags are Euro-imports, nmany seem to be counterfeit and full of god knows what.

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