@drezha
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Extreme cause could be the van is actually in the water!
Off the coast of Ghana? It got there bloody quick! :whistle:
I’d be contacting the garden centre – it’s their responsibility to have it delivered up until the point of delivery. They ca then put pressure on to APC to find it/send it again.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
@drezha Yes, that’s the one.
I see the socket still has the original face-plate – one of THESE will both tidy the appearance up ( losing the plug in filter ) and should also stabilise/improve speeds ( not hugely, but every little can help ). I found those old filters to be a real fault liability and a real PITA.I haven’t done it yet, as the speed improved.
It tests every 30 minutes, so some variance might be possible during that time frame – you can see some pretty big drops, but it hasn’t really been noticeable (i.e. I’ve still been able to play online, whilst the wife has been able to stream).
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Well, the test was running variable sizes.
Running a 100MB test file to the server gives the following:
That’s from my Mac mini, connected to a 1Gb switch, to the TP-Link adapter. This goes to the Router, then via a powerline to the under TV switch, to my DS116. That’s a dual core MARVELL Armada 385 @ 1.8GHz with 1GB RAM. No encryption on the NAS, but the Mac Mini is protected with Filevault.
Only think that is a pain is that the plug takes up a socket now and doesn’t have a passthrough connecter like the powerline adapter, so I need to dig out an extension lead for it!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
It is my landline connection with Origin. I haven’t tried to investigate, as it’s only reasonably recently that it’s got poor. I only set the monitoring up yesterday on the Pi, so I’m keeping an eye on it. I am connected to the Master socket, as router is out in the front hallway, however, I haven’t tried the test socket but following the instructions here, I may give it a go later when the speed starts dropping again.
I would like to move the router if I can as it’s a bit of an eye sore just inside the front door!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Feel like I’m missing out. My last 24 hours of web have been pretty poor (measured using speedtest-cli and plotted with gnuplot). Avg down – 22.12Mbps and 6.92Mbps up.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I guess you can wave goodbye to MS Office on the Mac for a while. I do wonder if this is what’s behind the decision, Mac’s aren’t so unique any more. It’s got to be risky and they need to remember why they went in the opposite direction in the first place.
I don’t think so – afterall, Office runs on the iPad, which is already an ARM architecture. Sure, there’s some slightly differences between the two, but generally it’s very similar and very usable. In fact, work bought me an iPad Pro instead of a Surface tablet (partly to do with inspections and inspection software) and with the new Magic Keyboard, the iPad is actually a decent laptop replacement, for all work we do is in Office and Teams – all on the ARM based iPad – file browsing is still a faff though and this carries through to the Mac – I don’t know who at MS thought this was a decent view!
And Apple have been moving some Mac apps to be combined since 2018 with Marizpan. Various Apple inbuilt apps are already using this apparently, such as the Notes application, so I don’t think the change over will be to much of an issue. He says.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett