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Thank you Dave that is now made clear, I think!

 

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A couple of points that have held me back from taking further interest in a fibre to a distant cabinet offer.

1) Will the ‘Fibre ‘presentation still use the same internal wiring from the BT demarcation point to the current router access point?

2) I currently use my own router which uses the historic user name and password, a new ISP router has different data. How much does this matter and would the old credentials still work?

Both routers come with a set of suitable ports.

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I wonder about ISPs and their usernames and passwords. I use my own box and it has my original details. EE went mad and sent me own of their box a while back and it had totally different credentials, it worked but was less capable of meeting my network set up, reserved IP addresses and restricted allocations, etc., so I have only used it as a switch and sometimes AP – it does not give great coverage.

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Les, I was only suggesting that it would tell you the specification of any suitable memory items, not that you should follow up and buy it that way – unless they could make you the sort of offer that could not be refused. A bit like high street physical browsing but online buying based on price. (Though I have not yet seen anything on a high street that I could not find more easily in almost any make that every other way.)

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I have had one SSD fail early, it was not PNY and I cannot currently remember the make nor can I be bothered to dig out the details. However, that is not quite the whole story. The machine in question had a bit of a habit of crashing and thus needing rebooting this as it turned out was due dying memory. Then it failed one more time and the final power cycle took out the drive. A thorough memory test (Memtest86 over night) showed that one of a matched pair of DIMMs  gave errors causing the machine to fail. It was sent in under warrantee, earning a replacement (twice the capacity as it turned out 4GB went to 8GB) and the claim for the disk drive was honoured. Since that time the replacements have worked long and hard. Thank heaven for disk images – which reminds me, it is time to take some new ones.

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Did you try the Crucial web site to see what memory would suit the board? Even if you do not follow their model codes it should help pin down what it needs. Going from very rusty memory, servers often used ECC memory (I think) which was error correcting stuff with extra bits to support the error correction function. Have you tried reducing the screen resolution to see if that affects things?

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@EdP, I thought that your originally posted the link made the whole thing pretty clear. Not just the primary targets of the link, but the way to combat the effects.

There is always the issue of ensuring that routers are correctly hardened within the limits of a user’s capability – change the default password is always a good place to start. Always make the password as hard to guess as you can. Most times software updates are put out for a good set of reasons and should be installed when, (if?) available.

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I always use the Crucial guide to point me in the right direction, feed in the mother board details and get the result back. Where you go from there is your choice.

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Bob, That was the sort of thing no one wants to have to say or hear. I am sorry for you, your family and for your brother. While dementia come from different origins, the result is always unbearably awful. As you said the motor keeps going with no rhyme or reason, simply holding the inevitable at bay. I had close relatives go that way, slowly so I know how you likely feel, I am sorry.

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Just a life test post, it is awfully quiet today or is everyone on the ‘wrong format’ today.

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Good luck!

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While I sympathise with Steve’s suggestion I cannot condone that action plan. I suggest that there are several points of ethics and honesty that appear to stand out along with the fact that BT, Openreach and Plusnet appear to be in breach of Ofcom’s rules. There are steps that can be taken to escalate the matter and place Openreach, BT and Plusnet a lot closer to the seriously naughty step. With finance you have to get to a deadlock situation, I am not sure if this will be the same. It would be worth documenting all that you have including the photographic evidence of the test results and the fact that Minus-Net^{(Real operating nameTM?)} subtracted the truth from their erroneous statements and raising a formal objection with whomsoever you can, Ofcom, your MP, councillor, even Facebook, other antisocial networking websites and the local paper. I am confident you can use the thick spread butter knife and wooden spoon to lay it on nice and thickly. Letters to chair persons sometime yield results.

Edit, the text formatting did not work, where is said ^and the bit in the middle should be been as superscript, sorry.

I forgot, you could always try something like Watchdog on TV, they usually like the chance to knock sloppy service and run around, always footnote any correspondence to the guilty parties with a reference to such as ‘copy for Watchdog’.

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You have just proved and old industry saying, ‘Good service after a bad experience can win customers’. That was a reassuring experience. I am going to suspect that you deal with only one account/set of accounts with one user, if so I guess you can be the sole agent. That does make things easier from the on line point of view.

I was trying to count up the number of accounts and cards we jointly use. It looks like seven main accounts with joint cards for my wife and myself. The spread is partially historic and partially in order to introduce redundancy. If one fails other options exist. Two service suppliers have gone so four cards less. We could probably do things another way, but monthly ‘balance day’ flushes everything into one lovely paper chase. Receipts for ‘capital’ type items are filed centrally and the others shredded and composted. Its worked for us for just shy of 40 odd years, (no credit cards back then; or home computers), we just had merchant credit accounts, plus a couple more banks – in different countries.

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It might also be a sound idea to avoid doing banking or anything else of an otherwise restricted nature using a ZTE mobile according to recent news reports.

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I would slightly revise your plan C to use coach bolts as they have no easy way to turn them from outside of the building. I have certainly used coach bolts in the past to perform similar functions. They not only look better, they are marginally more secure when correctly installed.

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The Duke wrote:

Or just use mobile data.

As long as you are not using your own or anyone else’s Wi Fi as they would have been affected by the same issue. Though using anyone else’s Wi Fi does carry its own risks. The exploit does appear to be US or North/South America based and at least the article did offer ways of self managing the router to mitigate your risk profile.

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Bob, it is certainly unfortunate that the Russian peasantry for voted for a homicidal thug and megalomaniac who likes nothing more than killing or crippling anyone he does not like. There have been others in history in his same mould, some have been disposed of but he will continue to kill until some one has the sense to slip him something to improve his demeanour. Certainly trading with his mob will change nothing as the Greeks and Germans regularly  demonstrate, neither will anything else. He world is stuck with him for the moment.

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@Keith meow; Keats was also less current and since when was early August autumn?

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Sign makers are another source of ideas or materials, possibly as off cuts.

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@Edp, that was a depressing summary, though I have no doubt it is accurate. I can only remember going to to Scotland and staying in the Gleneagles hotel once for a business conference on fraud. It was long-long ago and I cannot now remember the weather, though I think I stayed in the hotel until it was time to leave. My wife enjoyed some of the side trips and daughter was well cared for with their nursery facilities. I do remember driving from there to Exeter in one hop with what appeared to be a car load of zombies for the second half of the journey!

It was a longer way than I would take on these days.

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