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I will start the Wurst und Bier diet immediately! Well I say start… Perhaps it’s the senf?

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Just watching the scientific experts spectacularly not answering questions again.

I still don’t know how I can tell if a phone call from Test & Trace is genuine. They can’t track anyway!

Dominic Rabb was asked by Andrew Marr to describe how the UK T&T will be “world beating” as Boris has said. Apparently it will be world beating in that it will be tailored to the UK’s needs. WTF? He did acknowledge we are way behind other countries who have had a head start on us (how unfair of them).

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It will make no difference, the same number have voted and even marched on issues before with no effect.

It will take a second spike for anything to happen.

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Deichman, best pair of shoes I ever had. Unfortunately one fell apart within months. Contacted the shop and they were gob smacked, asked for photos which were sent. I then heard from Decichman themselves with profuse apologies. Needless to say a replacement pair wasn’t an issue, but I’d bought them on holiday in Bridport and the model was now discontinued (I bought them in a sale). A cheque was dispatched that day.

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Rodney Matthews

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And an Alexa in every home?

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That went round quick, happy birthday Nolan.

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That Conway looks identical to the salvaged chair I have. Lots of £££s but boy do they last.

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With the APN set to 3Internet I get a public external IP address so DDNS works.

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I bought one of these 5 years ago and it’s still going. The absolutely best office chair I have though is now nearly 30 years old and salvaged from an office closure at work. It’s very much like this and built like a brick outhouse. It may not look as sexy as the “directors” chair but it is very much built for the purpose of sitting on 8 hours a day without pain.

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I’ve been thinking about this: “Origin block port forwarding unless you pay for a static IP address”

Can I assume this to mean your external IP address is in one of the private ranges of 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16 or 172.16..0./12? If so you’re screwed and always will be if even you paid for a fixed IP and used a USB dongle.

As you know I use Draytek a lot and for anything but 4G they are a go to for being able to do anything, but the sim slot versions are just too much £££. I now have a TP-Link MR200 and whilst it’s miles better than the Huawei it’s no Draytek.

What I’ve been searching for is head unit that’s really good at being a 4G modem and just passing the connection through to my Draytek. I believe I may have found the answer in the Teltonika range, but if you’re starting from scratch the cost means you might as well got for the sim slot DrayTek Vigor in the first place.

I’m starting to think that my first thoughts are correct, it’s going to take 5G to do this “all wireless” thing properly. The 802.11 protocols are pretty much there for local distribution and mesh is coming along nicely, it’s the internet end that needs sorting and IPv6 to take a lot of the routing pain away. I fear for people like us that it will be “this is what you get” at the consumer end and “this will cost you a lot” at the “I want some control” end.

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Given his position and wealth I find it unbelievable that this was the only option open to him. Even if it was the advice for the plebs was “And if the individuals do not have access to care support – formal care support – or to family, they will be able to work through their local authority hubs.”

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Quick Connect doesn’t need any port forwarding but of course SFTP does. Not that elegant but drag (from File Explorer) and drop onto a web page does work quite well. The Create File Request shared link method also uses quick connect.

The 27xx series had a lot of features added in firmware upgrades last year, so you may have come across an older article, even Draytek’s website can be out of date. You now have a dial in SSL VPN server and (non tagged) VLANs with 2 subnets too.

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After this morning’s political programs and comments from Tory MPs like Steve Baker, I think his days are numbered.

It’s the arrogant shitness of his attitude that’s doing the trick, plus the obvious moving of goalposts and nitpicking over the preciseness of situations. Some argument that he was outside of the 14 day period when he was seen at Barnard Castle, but he shouldn’t have been there in any circumstance. They have been fining people all over the West Country for going to beauty spots 30 miles away.

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Several questions here. Firstly multiple gateways are fine, as you say it’s the default gateway address that determines what goes where. Businesses often do this to separate say VOIP and data.

External access via 4G is a movable feast but you don’t need to spend £260 on a Draytek that will do 4G load balancing / failover. Here’s a screenshot from my basic 2760.

4G through a USB dongle will stymie DDNS as they basically act as routers. They present their own private IP to the router and do not pass through the ISP allocated IP address. It’s how their protocol works and no way around it.

Therefore the router needs a SIM card slot and yes a Draytek with one does cost a lot more. But as far as IP addresses are concerned, most carriers will give you one of their internal IP addresses so DDNS is again stymied. I am with Three and the default APN of three.co.uk does this, however if I change the APN to 3Internet I get a public IP and DDNS is back on. So even with your router sorted out you are in the hands of the 4G carrier.

The question you need to ask is do you really need to remotely administer your router via 4G? This is what is causing you all the grief.

What I do at some customers sites is install a Pi and let VNC deal with the negotiation through whatever network between me and it. I can then run tools or a browser on the Pi.

 

 

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It’s a political propaganda show now, nothing more. The stats we are allowed to see are clearly not the whole story. We cannot compare against other countries until the Govt want us to believe we can restore activity X just like country Y has. The fact that county Y is weeks ahead of us is glossed over.

The media do have a difficult job getting the questions answered and not just policy restated and history rewritten. If anyone pushes too hard, Piers Morgan, Andrew Neil, etc. they are shunned. Character assassinations are being undertaken by the right wing press, try having the Daily Express notifications turned on! I do to head off the crap my relatives will be spouting later on. Thankfully we do now seem to have an effective opposition.

I’m just waiting for the next spike, it seems inevitable given the behaviours now being displayed and actively encouraged. When that happens I think the last vestige of trust will have been eroded. I believe they think they’ll get away with a No Deal Brexit too, after all so much can be blamed on Covid-19 now.

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It got so bad I moved the network back to TalkTalk. Others I know of on Three are OK so I suspect it’s a local problem. The way they’ve done the sectors here puts most of the residences on the same antenna.

Openreach have been swarming around the estate for weeks, no idea what they’re up to but the visited every manhole at some time or another. But my FTTC connection has been solid for over 9 days now, unheard of before, so whatever it was has worked. I hope it’s getting ready for FTTP.

Makes me laugh looking at the BT avaiabilty site, apparently 36Mbps is only good enough for “Everyday browsing and streaming on one or two devices at once”. I’ve heard this bollocks from Virgin too.

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I’ve never quite understood this we’ll learn the lessons after its all over nonsense. If I’m putting Ikea furniture together and continually bash my thumb when nailing the back on I don’t think, I know when it’s allover I’ll compare hits per thumb by furniture type. I think I’d better find a better way to do this or I’ll have no thumb left by the end.

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My IPA comes in 330ml cans, but we have been warned by the brewery there is a long delay in getting cans so mini kegs or 10 litre bibs are the best bet.

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It’s still worth a listen.

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