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The 4G+ symbol has just started showing up on my phone at my mum’s house which is supposed to mean I can expect faster speeds but testing shows I am limited to 17Mbs down and 6Mbs up.
Turn off the wifi on your phone, give it a minute for the 4G to connect, then restart the phone. Every now and then my phone ‘sticks’ on a lower speed. Restarting the phone this way seems to force it to reconnect properly, and my speeds go up to what they should be.
As you know, the art is not to catch intruders but to persuade them that there may be softer targets elsewhere.
Would putting a sign up saying ‘Number 17 is away until the end of the month’ be considered unethical? :scratch: :mail: 😉
Bloody hell Bob, you don’t have things easy do you?
Get well soon :good:
I gave up on Dropbox a few years ago when I found out that it had been renaming my photos.
I moved house and was waiting for the internet to be connected, so I manually copied my phone photos to my computer. When I was reconnected, I noticed that Dropbox was still copying files. When I loked, it had changed the filenames from the phone’s IMGxxxx standard to its own 2015-08-01xxxx date standard. I hadn’t had a reason to check it for ages before that, so I had hundreds of duplicates. I can’t remember exactly what else happened, but the renaming stopped some of the syncing features from working properly, so photos that I’d deleted from the phone were still in the Dropbox folder and their online storage. I ended up having to go through every photo individually to clear out the junk and duplicates.
Mine’s getting worse. Talktalk offered me a 3 month credit and new equipment if I stayed on with them, along with the promise to fix the line. I agreed with the condition of a 21 day cooling off period, so they sent the kit – the same router and a D-Link wifi homeplug kit.
The speed has gone back to about 11Mbps, but I can barely connect from downstairs (my master socket is upstairs), and the D-Link kit is discontinued, and the homeplug side of it barely works. I’m getting disconnected from the router fairly regularly now.
To make it worse, the TP-Link kit I ordered hasn’t turned up, and the seller isn’t responding to messages on Amazon. :negative:
Killing Floor 2, Lifeless Planet Premier Edition, and The Escapists 2 are the current Epic freebies :yahoo:
Steve, Nolan, in the nicest way possible, I hate you right now! 😥
I’ve just managed to get up from 8Mbps to 13Mbps :unsure:
Bob, there are updates available for some of the TP-Link homeplugs. The update for my very old 200Mbps adapters apparently fixes some faults with IPv6 and a few other things. It might be worth having a look.
They might need to be connected directly to the computer though, as the update program only seemed to detect the first one in my chain. That could be related to the problems I’ve been having though.
That’s tempting as an emergency backup. Have it set up somewhere near the front door, and if there’s a fire or something similar, grab it on the way past. It’s big enough to hold everything too, so you could literally just dump everything on to it and not have to worry.
Obviously you should have other backups too, but I like the idea of grab it and go.
I’ve got about half a dozen switches here now :wacko:
I had three of the Netgears set up in the old house, and when we moved a few years ago, I couldn’t find the box with them in. I bought a few D-Link switches instead and got the current setup in place, and now I’ve lost the last D-Link, but found the Netgears again :unsure:
Depending on how things go when we switch to Three, I may use them to get the network set up properly though. I’ve got homeplugs connecting the different rooms because of the problems with wifi, but the electrical system isn’t great, meaning that sometimes the connection is a bit flaky or slow. The eventual plan is to get everything either into the garage or attic, and run cabling to sockets in every room. With things like Fire Sticks being so much more convenient now, I can move the media server out of the living room then, and possibly heat the garage a bit at the same time.
I’ve been saying that for the last six years though… 😥
I have quite a few of the AV600 kits out there now. 2 Ethernet ports and N300 WiFi at the remote end is good enough for most uses and £40 is a bargain.
Now that everything’s working here again, I’ve just picked up a pair. They’re down to £30 at the moment too :good:
So, it turns out it was my switch.
My backups finished earlier today, so tonight I was able to reset the router and check everything again. I disconnected the spare router and plugged everything back into the switch, and the computer kept switching between connected and cable unplugged for about a minute until it settled down, but then only connected at 100Mbps. I realised that I hadn’t tried the cable from the Homeplug directly into the computer, so I tried that. It connected immediately at the Homeplug’s full speed of 100Mbps. I tried a few sockets on the switch and had problems, so I swapped it for an identical one, and everything worked first time.
I feel a bit stupid for not checking it sooner, but I thought I’d ruled it out for some reason. Never mind, it’s fixed now. I’ve just got to wait until Monday to get hold of TT, and apparently wait 30 days because they need notice to shut my account down…
Well done Ed. Bloody BT “Super” Hubs, should be banned. I see EE are providing them as well. I’ve got all my customers off them now.
It’s essentially what the TalkTalk router is. The really frustrating part is, before TT I was on Vodafone, and they gave me the same router. Vodafone’s router had most of the settings available though, whereas the TT router is set up with the bare minimum options, and only a few more if you manage to get into the ‘advanced’ menu.
Mark – I think I did, but I’m not 100% sure now.
At the moment the network and internet are both working through the spare TP-Link Archer D2. I’ve had to disable my wifi, and I can’t access my media system because it’s connected to the TT router, but neither of those are urgent. I’ve got AnyDesk on all my machines if I need to fix anything. Right now I’m backing up to the NAS at a much faster speed, and in the next few days I’m switching to Three Mobile for the home internet. There’s no point in struggling to fix the TT issues now as the Three router may fix them anyway.
Just to make you laugh at the end – I set the TP-Link router up earlier and couldn’t get the internet. I’d plugged a cable from the switch to the router’s WAN port, but it didn’t work. The backup was working so I left it to it. I came back a few hours later and thought I’d try bypassing the switch and plugging the cable directly into the second router. I unplugged the switch cable from the TP-Link and it felt very loose. I pulled it and found out that it wasn’t connected at the other end :wacko:
Thanks both :good:
I tried a live disc earlier, Ubuntu Studio, and it wouldn’t connect. I played around with it to make sure I hadn’t missed anything, but no joy. I can’t try Ed’s idea as Ellen’s using the internet for work, so I plugged a spare router in. It’s working perfectly.
I’m going to try connecting the spare router to the switch to give it internet for now, then connect the NAS to it so that at least I can get the backup done. Over wifi it was going to take about a week :wacko:
Obviously not ideal, but either my PSU or storage drive is starting to play up, so I need the backup done sooner rather than later.
Epic have changed their giveaways page back to the old format, and added extra games. As well as Ark and Samurai Shodown, Sludge Life and Dolores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini Adventure are currently free too :good:
supposedly all AM4 mobos have two NVMe slots
Unless I’ve misunderstood, mine only has one slot:
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B450M-PRO-VDH-MAX/Specification
Hitman: Absolution is currently free on GOG:
Snake Pass is currently free for Humble Bundle newsletter subscribers:
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/snake-pass-free-game
Ark: Survival Evolved and Samurai Showdown NeoGeo Collection are both free on Epic this week:
Thanks both
I’m going to double check the existing kit tonight and make sure it’s all connected properly, then I might get one of the TP-Link kits :good:
Does this mean that they act like a mesh network, so you only see one SSID?
“One Touch for super range extension – Wi-Fi Clone button simplifies your WiFi configuration and helps build a seamless unified home network with one simple touch”
I’m still having coverage problems, and until I can get a sparky in after the lockdown, I can’t get extra sockets either, so these sound ideal.
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