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It seems unlikely it’s anything at his end causing interference, I’ve never actually seen that happen in real life. Same goes for channels. Sure neither is desirable but enough to stop or significantly slow service? Nah.

More likely as Ed says a combination of MT and or a crap router. The service can appear to be up but that doesn’t mean it’s capable of carrying traffic.

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The thing I took away was wire guard . I’ll be changing my vpn server from open vpn once I get a minute.

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I remember the letters but not them being on the forum.

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Happy birthday Bob

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Welcome aboard. Theres at least one Dave Special still going, and no it’s not mine 😊

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That always was potentially easier as Microsoft seemed to have a big Intel bias, but often ended in tears.

It’s been a year since I did an Intel build, even most of the laptops have been Ryzen 3’s.

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Not been to Barry Island since I was a kid, and that was to look at the scrapped steam locos. Must find an excuse to go back sometime, it’s easy enough by train from here.

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Subs fine with me.

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In my experience everyone ignores the signs of a failing HDD until the bitter end anyway! If they do notice they usually get me to check for the virus that’s slowing thing down 😊

As far as photos are concerned, these days I think they belong in the cloud rather than on a PC. Google give you unlimited storage for photos up to 16MP and 1080P video.

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Well I am a big fan of the Thinkpads or HP Elites and MicroDream will put a 1TB SSD in for £100 which pretty much cost price.

Lenovo 14″ ThinkPad T450s Ultrabook – HDF+ (1600×900) Core i5-5300U 8GB 1TB SSD WebCam WiFi Bluetooth USB 3.0 Windows 10 Pro

With an extended 3 years warranty £439

I hate the thought of anything without an SSD, but new I’d be looking at the Lenovo V15 Core i5 8GB 1TB HDD £445 direct from Lenovo. I’ve bought a fair few of the V series (they are aimed at entry level SMB), you must consider them sealed units. They are a lot lighter than a Thinkpad but obviously not as robust.

 

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It’s not Ebola. This just reminds me of the swine flu “pandemic”. Much panic at the start then when people realise that no-ones dropping dead in the street and far more are dying of the flu, it will all peter out.

The whole isolation thing is a nonsense, it’s not isolation. It seems to me like it’s a method of guaranteeing that anyone in the same establishment as you has a much better of chance of catching it. The whole self isolation isn’t thought out in any way.

Panic buying will only take place if people are whipped up into a frenzy by the media or comments like yours. What’s more likely to happen is that people will just start ignoring it, especially the self employed. It’s one thing telling those that will receive sick pay that they must lock themselves away (plus all the others in the household it now seems) and another telling those that have to work or starve.

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Bob, I put in the WiFi at the British Legion and on an average weekend it will deal with 80 connections per day. It’s a 300N unit.

You will have plenty of wireless bandwidth to do what you want. The main thing that differentiates the sort of AP I put in a commercial premises and your average ISP box isn’t bandwidth, it’s their ability to deal with multiple concurrent connections. Antenna design is usually better as well but as you’ve seen in your average house it’s not an issue.

I moved over to AC purely because I shovel loads of big files about and quite like working from my armchair 😉 If you ever needed that much bandwidth I would always do it with an AP rather than change the router. TP-Link are doing some real SWMBO friendly ones now – the Deco range.

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The router is N only so no need to worry about AC, I’d go with #3.

The card I’ve been using lately is this one Gigabyte GC-WB1733D-I it’s on Amazon for the same price. I like the external antenna and it has Bluetooth too.

EDIT – the card has a power connector but it’s only needed for Bluetooth.

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Like anything delivered over the air it’s probably got a lot to do with location. Not just the physical location of the receiver vs the transmitter but the transmitter at that location.

We’re using ours all the time now and I’ve only had an extreme slow down once (but speeds vary during the day), that was when Netflix got the hump but a speed test immediately after wasn’t that bad.

My Ubiquiti cloud controller alerts me if it loses touch with any AP and that’s only happened twice, once here and once at a customer site. Both outages were only one heartbeat cycle.

It’s going to be good enough for me to ditch the landline when the time comes and I still have plenty of tweaking left to do with regards kit and location in the loft. However I still believe that it’s going to take 5G to do this effectively for the masses.

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We used to be able to claim some money from the EU to help with floods. As we’re paying the monthly subs I assume we still can. I wonder if any Brexiteer politicians now governing the country would have the balls to apply?

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Compatible toner cartridge prices seem to be all over the place. I think that may be down to whether the cartridge is a simple toner receptacle or more complex. You have to remember that there are other consumables besides toner, like fuser units and transfer rollers. These can be eye wateringly expensive but have a long life (I doubt I’ll ever have to buy a transfer unit @ 130,000 pages).

Things are a lot more reasonable in the A4 world. My Brother HL L8260cdw with compatibles is down at ink jet cost levels. It’s a nice printer and is currently £177 with either £100 cashback or 3 year warranty.

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Bristol Heart Institute – walk in showers 😊 A new specialist hospital, I think that made the diference.

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Good news Bob.

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After discovering it in a pile of bits I turned the Hudl on again yesterday after at least a year being off. I vaguely remember it wasn’t working too well that’s why it had been abandoned. I left it on for a good hour just running the CCTV app which I manually updated. If there were any updates going on I never noticed them.

 

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