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Dave, I was responding to Tippon’s complaints that his devices were not reacting as he thought they should.
I have never used a Garmin so could not comment directly. The 1 hour operational life, with or without the car connection is rubbish and spoke to me of an error somewhere in the system. For Garmin to admit that their car connector is barely able, and in practice is unable to sustain the device let alone charge it on the go suggests a major failure somewhere.
The fact that the power bank has now shown signs of failure could be simply down to the fact that they do fail, or could indicate a risk that something, somewhere along the line was not functioning as it should. My understanding is that the source of power should ‘ask’ down stream device what they can accept, this should be fail-safe but if a cheap or otherwise unreliable or faulty device is involved all bets are off. Power leads have been found to be faulty or just too poorly made to function.
As a result of Bob’s comments, I can accept that the Garmin is possibly not worth the consideration its name once earned. Certainly, even using the announcer function on a mobile phone to ‘read out navigation instructions’ a travel life of rather more than one hour is achieved by my daughter using her phone tucked into its travel home. I do not think she uses a power adapter to achieve this range. This adds further confirmation to Bob’s view that the Garmin has failed to keep pace with modern needs.
However, I am still of the opinion that caution in making, (and breaking) connections between devices is justified.
Good for me. I see the other networks are charging a premium even though the service will be pretty much non existent. You wonder how many 4G phone owners have fallen for it?
Yes, but watch out for what you are paying. They are apparently refusing to tell customers when they have paid off their handsets costs so customers may end up over paying until they wise up. Perhaps it is best to buy your handset and go SIM only?
Unless there are specific indications on the device relating to its input and out put voltage I would be very careful. A plugs in USB adapter should put out a USB voltage,but following recent, or maybe less than recent developments it may well give out more than the old style 5 volts nominal. Some of the latest USB voltages can be considerably higher than that old figure and are supposed to be negotiated between the devices involved. Without a detailed examination of the devices it is my current practice to assume nothing except unlikely compatibility unless it is proven. It is better to be safe rather than sorry.
Good luck checking things out.
Yes Bob, best wishes to the pair of you. There is only one thing worse than all the appointments and that is not getting any real solution to or explanations for the issues. I hope that neither applies in your cases.
The view waiting for the sag waggon to take us back to the start.
I was sat outside the doctors 5 minutes ago and I was so hot my eyes were sweating. Indicated 33c by the car but being in direct sunlight made it feel much hotter.
Too late now but before we went there and knowing how hot it would be I invested in some wide brimmed sun hats with a chip strap/chord as I did not want to be the one trying and failing to catch a hat bowling across the runway in the breeze. The alternative is a brolly, it might look a bit out of place on a dry day in the not-so-UK, but in hot places they are surprisingly popular to generate a bit of personal sunshade because they just work quite well. At least the hats work well enough today and left hands free for bags, children and helping me to get up when I tried to reach down to the floor.
We had a good time out but by just gone 14:00 we had had enough and all were happy to wait for the site courtesy bus and ride back to the start. Our grandson is fascinated by planes so it was a day in heaven for him. It turned out that he also like fire engines and other mechanical devices though at just over two years old he was not doing too well on knowing one from the other. Lots of planes were landing, taking off and taxiing, some with the aid of a tractor or tug heaving them backwards, score one extra point for each tractor spotted. His sister enjoyed the day out as well, lots of out time, lots to see and wonder at though some of the more harrowing aspects of exhibits were not instantly apparent to her. The sight of a young child fished from ruins and carried in the arms of an ARP warden hit our daughter quite hard, as she suddenly realised the woman warden was not the child’s relation.
But it has been HOT. The car registered over 41 degrees as the outside temperature and never dropped below 38 on the way home, though the garden is now showing ‘only’ 36.3 at 15:47. The dogs slept and have not yet demanded a walk, they can demand all they want until it cools down; though to be fair, for the moment walking out is not top of their minds
We came close to not getting there at all as someone forgot to stop at a side turning and veered out into our path, a narrow miss resulted, but at least it was a miss and the rest of the way things went rather better.
This does show how different folk have very different needs and priorities. It set me thinking about our cars over the past few years, after I got over the surprise at you frequent changes of vehicle PM.
Most of my cars have been kept for a while unless fate intervened. A couple of Fords put me off that make for ever, the first was clearly a cousin of the Model T, the other considered replacement gearboxes were an annual service replacement item along with the oil change schedule. Hydraulic brake failures, a major electrical failure and sundry other ‘never ever problems completed the failure list. A Fiat was with me for 22 years but part of that time it was laid up as I was overseas. A couple of Honda Accords lasted for 17 years for the saloon, mainly used by my wife, and 19 years for the coupe, they were added to by a Jazz that I held for 13 years having bought it as the Accords were not insurable for our daughter to learn on and it was kept after medical concerns delayed her progress. Now she has overcome her medical issues and gained her licence she has become its keeper and has already done close to a thousand miles in the last couple of weeks.
So, having ruled out Fords after previous terrible experiences we wanted cars with a good local dealer, good reliability, reasonable comfort and practicality. Baring in mind we needed dog access for up to three dogs, (now down to two) and child seat capability for the now two grandchildren, though fate has severely restricted that need recently.
Following Honda’s loss of a local agent, few others met the bill. Sadly the Hyundai agent is very local but unable to provide any sort of service when I tried to buy something, they made no effort at all to sell anything to me, so Kia it was. Emissions were not really the top issue for me, reasonable fuel efficiency, tyre wear, practicality, (remember dogs and small children) and a lack of interest in consuming spares were top of my wants list. My wife’s automatic Ceed is now 7 years old and does a whisker under 50 mpg, mine is now almost three, (it is due a service in the near future) and returns around 55 mpg. Tyre wear is within my acceptable range, no tyres have been replaced so far and other spares have not been required.
Cars should start when needed, stop as needed and get from A to B, do what is wanted, without fuss or botheration, and not cost a fortune along the way in our book. Depreciation ceases being a real issue if the car is held for a few years , we generally exceed a ‘few years’ by a good margin.
Well it is now 08:30 and the temperature has reached a ‘modest’ 29.5 already. A family day out to Duxford, my wife and I, daughter, husband and two small children, looks likely to be challenging. Large hats have been procured and hopefully the presence of the exhibition halls will provide some relief points. It might be extra challenging as my wife is on session six of her second round of chemotherapy at the moment and it does not play well with the heat…
Oops a few moments later and it is already well over 30 degrees. Thank goodness the dogs have been walked, an hour’s walk from 06:30 this morning.
Dave, is that strictly true? I have a router let us call that K1, this is connected to several dumb switches, Dumb 1-X, at least one of which, SubDumb1 has a connection from another dumb switch Dumb1. This is partially due to legacy issues Dumb1-X are gigabyte switches while SubDumb1 is only 100Mb and partially due to ‘growth’ issues, the TV and its hardware do not need GB connections. Subdumb2 is a redeployed router serving a small community of low port speed devices. SubDumb3 is connected by a Tp-Link Ethernet over mains power system, but from the Dumb1 switch. It is too early in the morning to try drawing something out, though I really should, it is challenging to remember it all. I am off out shortly so it will have to wait for a future time slot.
The switches are daisy chained so all sit along a spoke or spokes as needed and have only one path back to the router, which is I think what you were suggesting as a rule for operation.
We have now reached the almost standard temperature of 34.8 and, yes it is hot, though oddly the humidity has dropped to only 38%. Inside it is cooler at 28, but more humid at 48%. I am not planning to do much today, I bought a nail extractor for when I work on the shed roof but that will not be today. The dogs have declared today a day of rest and are flat out on the floor ignoring whatever the world has to offer. I will be going to see a spinal surgeon later this afternoon to see what my MRI has revealed. Physiotherapy on my hip has been declared ineffective. Now, I must try to get back to the orthopaedics department to see if they can offer anything more. Telephone contact is proving almost impossible to obtain, just a verbal list of other extensions, so I am not making progress. The hip joint is fine, the tendon joint to the pelvis is not so happy, neither am I.
It is not clear why I am getting up and visiting the bathroom at night, the tablet I take have largely removed any pain and the PSA is fine. To be honest I visit the loo because I am awake rather than because I have woken up for that purpose, it is just another annoyance.
Graham, many, too many years ago PCM was the hottest thing that was coming in. The economic run lengths were said to be something like 28 miles, but from 14 upwards would be acceptable. What length were the first installed runs? Less than half a mile in the city of London. The plant might have been costly, but digging up the ducts to expand them would have been far more expensive, even if it had been allowed at the time.
I guess it is a similar with optical fibre plans at the moment, glass is fragile and does not like to bent as one, once large, now bankrupt maker of hardware found out. The cabinet was nicely connected up and tested perfectly, the cabinet door was closed and every fibre connection was promptly ‘unmade’, it just would not bend enough to fit into the space.
Having a hierarchy of media is no doubt driven by market needs. Synchronising between systems was an issue, with different systems running to quite different standards and time clocks. So plesiochronous buffers were a hot topic, ownership of these devices sometimes came close to causing minor wars. In one meeting I offered to get the fire axe so that the warring tribes could take half each. They then decided to take the ownership matter off-line.
Perhaps I am glad that I am now a long time out of the business, though I can see similar potential for re-runs of old delays and disputes as the latest conflict spheres form. Perhaps that is still the sort of issue that bedevils BT and the others trying to roll things out.
I envy you Bob, my download speed cannot come close to your upload data rate though to be honest it serves our modest needs OK.
The rain and even thunder is a pure gamble where we live so, yes I did water those parts of the garden that appear to be most in need of refreshment. I did have to get up about 2 or 3 a.m. and made a bathroom visit so was able to see an impressive display of lightening, here an impressive range of thunder and a more generalised go at watering the garden. The benefits were on display this morning the supposed to be grassy areas look green and more or less lush for once.
Much to the disappointment of the younger dog there were no real puddles about when she went for her walk this morning. She thinks the shortest distance between two points is via the greatest number of puddles, the husky does not think water pools are of any use and avoids them like one would avoid plague pits.
At just gone 8:00 a.m. it is already over 23 degrees so it is warming up and with humidity already at 85% it will feel hot and uncomfortable. Perhaps the renewed covering for the shed roof will have to wait.
Les, Yes ignore the set backs and go on and enjoy the day, here’s hoping you had a good if rather hot one.
Good luck finding a ‘home’ for the video, YouTube is very popular for such things at the moment.
The garden hit 34.8 today but it is ‘only 30.7 now. The resident husky would not go for a walk this morning when it was only about 15, but then tried to spend as much of the day sun bathing as she could. We had other ideas, so gained a grumpy husky. I will try again to walk her when it cools down. The chemo unit was really boiling when we called in for my wife’s check up and next round of chemo tablets, – thank goodness for car A/C! It was hotter in the Gulf, but probably more comfortable as we got used to being over 40 degrees for months at a time, no such luck this time and it will probably be floods next.
Dave, that was an interesting view, but I am not sure if it has much relevance to ordinary folk not in tourism centres or urban settings. It looks pretty investment intensive suggesting a real demand requirement. It will be interesting to see how it translates into real world offerings, though mapping the offering to my world is proving ‘challenging’. Paying for it is a whole different question.
Thank you, that could be very useful. The document is saved for later study. I currently really like the hex drive screws that you can get. They are so much more certain than the other styles of drive with a tendency for Posidrive to let me down,. This is possibly due to my increasingly feeble hand grip; arthritis and tendon pulley troubles really do not help.
Oops, I should have said VOIP does not require much bandwidth not what I wrote.
The provision of the end drops to customers is a topic that I have not followed, intelligent cabinets that could build self healing network were at one time a much punted idea by such as Ericsson, though provision of power to cabinets was a subject for debate at the time. I am not sure that the internet service preventers would take too kindly to providing power to CPE such but if that is what Ofcom decide then maybe that is what will arrive.
The issue of divers alarm systems and different monitors appears to remain a to be decided issue.
I have been retired for 17 years now, yet for years before I retired the end of the old POTS switching network was a hot topic. Dave is right, VOIP does not require bandwidth, all the gaps in activity plus the limited amount of actual content mean that the data demand is trivial, but consistency of delivery is everything. Already in the 1990s some traffic was bulk carried via data links not ‘conventional’ channel based facilities.
It is surprising that the same old issues are still yet to get a good customer end solution. The need for service protection during power cuts being one, the ‘other services’ run off POTS is another. I run my DECT phone system off a UPS and have toyed with UPS for the router and data switches, but mains voltage UPS for low voltage data switches feels like a logic failure. I saw that Ofcom were suggesting one-hour mains fail device protection should be mandated for network terminating equipment, I guess it is set that low for cost control reasons, but it sounds a trivial target.
I noticed that some respondents pressed for an end to numbering plans built up from local through national geographic numbering schemes in favour of using e.g. names as call partner ID. This was based on their Skype usage, I don’t see that playing easily in the real world as an addressing plan.
It maybe that I am seeing too little progress on either deployment or cost fronts to allow an easy choice. My needs are basic. The evolution from 2g through short-lived 3g to 4G provided little performance benefit, so I am perhaps a little jaded. Each came with incremental costs reducing the apparent value gain and 5G subscription charges along with device costs appear to be unattractive compared with our present admittedly flawed services.
We need:
1) An always on service to the house 24/7 irrespective of who is in or out.
1.1) A data service to the home location to support such as internet, and e.g. some catch-up services, (used mainly by my wife I have to say. I trust they will be made more user-friendly in the future with better indexing/searching capabilities. I tend to spend all my time looking to see if something appeals, rather than watching something interesting I have found.)
2) Two people able to receive calls both at home and to a marginally lesser extent when they are out. We require a common number representing ‘home’ rather than a particular person, as well as personal numbers as an optional, but useful benefit. Currently, my wife’s mobile is patched into the house system when she is at home, as she finds the mobile reception offers degraded voice use and the mobile is rarely ‘with her person’ in the house. A number of DECT extensions make an easier option.
2.1) Other services are useful, e.g. text/data services that allow e.g. NHS and others to confirm appointments.
3) None of this is beyond the whit of human beings, but our home reception of wireless remains at best ‘patchy’ and we require at least three ‘subscriptions’ between two people. The house ‘subscription’ provides both broadband, and the most reliable phone service at a competitive price. Mobile services at less than £10 per month are sensibly priced for our needs. I use less than 2% of my data 5 GB allowance.
I agree that like you, downloading films or other bulk data loads on the move is not on either of our agendas, though some data communication abilities are of value, Google maps and mobile navigation services can be a life saver, e.g. at 03:00 when tracing previously unknown hospitals. None of this requires 5G unless and until 5G is able to fill in the present patchy radio service availability, it offers us little benefit. We are not far distant from London, though a ripening range of wheat fields is within a few hundred yards of our house. The relatively narrow roads do not make for easy country walks, though they do make for pleasant views from a car window.
Perhaps it will happen, but I do not favour holding my breath.
John, I am also glad that things are recovering,
1903 does appear to be a variable feast for some, it first arrived at my oldest portable, appeared to get offered to my wife’s PC but then failed to appear after the ‘Rebooting now’ message. So that makes it three PCs done and one to go, to be honest I am yet to see any differences worth a candle in a darkened room.
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