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Bob Williams wrote:

Thanks guys, but the real reason for the weakness is found by my GP: I’m anaemic.

Good luck, anaemia’s a sod 🙁

It’s probably the worst part of this illness, mainly because it makes me breathless way too easily. I’ve found that iron supplements help, and iron water is the easiest to deal with. One sachet in a glass of fruit juice, once a day, half an hour before and after any caffeine. Just remember to leave a bit of time after brushing your teeth too, or you get that fruit juice and toothpaste taste ???

This is the stuff I use:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0019M7OCA

I get it from Amazon because I’ve got Prime with free delivery, but it’s probably cheaper if you shop around.

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I couldn’t get into the attic to place the repeater today, but I did a quick scan around the house with Wifi Analyzer. In the living room with the router, both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz signals were about -38dBm, but most rooms were in the minus 60’s and 70’s, with some even worse than that.

The Vodafone router automatically scans channels every so often, and should change them if needs be, but today it looked like every one of my neighbours was sharing channel 6 with me. Ironically I was getting a better signal from them half the time…

I’ll try setting it to channel 1 and having another check tomorrow.

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That would be brilliant, thanks Dave 🙂

I’ll try the repeater tomorrow, seeing as it’s here, and I’ll let you know.

Thanks again 🙂

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Dave Rice wrote:

Do not waste your money on Cat 7. Cat 5e is more than good enough and will be for the future. Cat 6 and 7 are a PIG to work with too. Before you buy anything I have a box of Cat 5e and all the proper tools, I also have all the Ubiquity test kit. If you’re near a station I’m quite willing to pop over and help you do this properly.

Thanks Dave, but I’m in the back end of nowhere ?

You’ve just reminded me that I’ve got a box of Cat 5e floating around somewhere though, probably in my mother’s attic. I was about to start cabling the old house during a renovation before I got ill.

I was thinking of the Cat 7 just for potential future proofing, but won’t bother then. I’ve managed to tuck the cable between the media PC and the router under the trim on the patio doors, so Ellen’s happy with it. I just need to sort the cable between my PC and the router, and I can get rid of the Homeplugs.

I’ve just tried switching the wifi on the router to 5GHz only, as everything should now be N or AC, but the Fire Sticks won’t connect. I was hoping that it would force things to run a bit quicker.

I’ve got a wifi repeater here that’s not currently being used, so I’ll try plugging that in up the attic and seeing if it makes a difference to the coverage. I’ll still need to run a cable to the garage eventually, but that’s not a massive problem.

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It’s definitely the Homeplugs. I switched the media PC from wireless to a direct cable to the router first and got the same speeds. Switched my PC to a direct cable, and small files transferred at 20+MB/s, while large files shot up to 100+MB/s. Switched the media PC back to wifi and got 6MB/s for small files and 12MB/s for large files. Tried some photos from one of the Buffalo devices through a Homeplug, and it was struggling to hit 6MB/s.

I’m going to cable up the living room, and try to figure out a plan for the rest of the house. Wifi is spotty at best, so I’m not sure whether to try something like one of the Ubiquity devices, or to run cables to the attic and put a switch up there. The living room’s on the first floor with the bedrooms, so cabling wouldn’t be too bad, especially as we’re planning on redecorating anyway.

Can you see any downsides to buying this cable for inside the house, other than the slightly higher price? For the sake of a few pounds, I’d rather get faster than I currently need and know that it can just stay in place.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RJ45-Flat-Cat7-Ethernet-Gold-Plated-Ultra-thin-10Gbps-SSTP-Network-LAN-Cable-Lot/332266480149

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Dave Rice wrote:

Homeplugs can be pants, I’ve stopped using them. I find after about a year their performance drops right off. The 200 mbps will have a 10/ 100 mbps Ethernet socket. A noisy power circuit can really affect them badly. Bandwidth is shared between the homeplugs, so the more you have the worse it gets. Wireless N. The devices are probably a maximum of 150 mbps and wouldn’t even transfer that quickly on a perfect connection…

…In your case the first place I’d look is the Homeplugs. I have a spare N300 pci-e card if you want to try that in the media PC to see what difference it makes.

Thanks Dave, and thanks for the comparisons.

I’d forgotten about the slower sockets on the Homeplugs, and thought that the media PC’s wifi was 300mbps, but just checked and it is only 150, if that.

Thanks for the pci-e card offer, but I’ll hold on for now until I rule everything else out. Hopefully tomorrow (Sunday) I’ll get half an hour to run cables between the two computers and the router then transfer some files to see the difference.

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Yeah. We had a power cut a few weeks ago, so I didn’t get a choice 😛

It let Kodi on the Fire Sticks access the media PC, but didn’t make much difference otherwise.

One thing I did notice though is opening the network through Windows Explorer was a lot quicker for a while. I’d open the folder and everything would appear straight away. It didn’t take long to go back to normal though, where the various devices pop up one at a time. I’m wondering if something has been timing out, or getting close to it?

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Les. wrote:

On MY Win 7 front, after 138 updates last night, and a raft more 3 times today (something downloading on it right now), I have installed KODI, but when I open it, it throws up an error and shuts down.

Try running this:

http://www.wsusoffline.net/

I’ve just used it to update my father’s offline Windows 10, and it was pretty painless, if a bit slow. It should download all the updates for whichever Windows version you choose, and can update the computer automatically, including restarting.

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Bob Williams wrote:

Thanks guys. I have actually been out for two walks today in gorgeous sunshine with faithful SWMBO.

Bloody hell Bob, you’re showing us younger members up! When I had the transplant I had a smaller scar, and was in hospital for longer, never mind bed ?

Glad to hear that you’re on the mend and still showing us how it’s done 🙂

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Brilliant ?

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I haven’t got this one to hand, but the last two I bought had a spacer in the pack too.

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No sign of them on the computer in Chrome here. Just checked Chrome on the phone, and nothing there either.

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@sgb101 One point that @sawboman missed, and that gets overlooked in the arm teachers argument is this:

Someone gets a gun into a school and shots are fired. The police turn up and find half a dozen adults waving guns around surrounded by screaming kids. What do you think the police are going to do? The teachers will be dead before they have a chance to get their government approved ID out of their desks.

The ideal situation would be for the teachers to stay in the classrooms with the kids, but 30 seconds of thinking says that someone who’s willing to die and wants to take people with them would just turn up at a busy time of day, like the beginning or end, or lunchtime, when everyone’s out of the classrooms. A disgruntled student could even turn up between lessons when the corridors are full.

America needs to make it harder for people to get guns, and have very strict penalties for people who let other have access to their guns due to negligence (kid taking an unsecured gun for example).

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How much coffee spilled on it, and are you confident enough to open the laptop up?

If you can remove the keyboard, you should be able to see what sort of state the inside of the laptop is in and get a better idea of how bad it is.

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Without thinking, I told my computer to update and shutdown before I removed the hard drive to install a replacement. Walked out of the room to make a coffee, and heard the computer restart. Came back to an error message along the lines of no boot record found. Couldn’t boot from a Windows USB drive either, as that would fall over once it found the error.

Several hours of trying live discs later and I managed to get the USB drive to boot. Found out that the update had done something to either the drive letters, or the boot record. Copied everything from F: (100MB drive) to G: (what has always been C: )and got back into Windows. Used EasyBCD to wipe and set up the boot record, and it seems to be working so far. (Still no idea why it chose those letters though!)

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Mine’s going into my main PC for now. This system has been upgraded from Win 7, and probably XP before that. As you can imagine, it’s well overdue a cleanup…

I planned to do it last weekend, but an update on shutdown went horribly wrong, and it took me hours to get everything back up and running ( a Windows update wiped out the boot record, but for some reason, even a windows USB was falling over ).

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Ed P wrote:

Many people find the new Photos app sucks up all available cpu capacity. If this is a problem for you try the remedies posted here: TenForums Link

Thanks Ed 🙂

Hopefully it will cure my father’s old problem from here:

https://forumite.co.uk/forums/topic/sudden-video-problems/

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Sorry, I forgot to come back to this. I ordered two – one for each computer, and they turned up on the weekend. They’re working great, and I’m looking into scripts to switch audio devices from within Kodi on the media PC ?

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The Duke wrote:

I need to find out if you can disable the ‘beauty ‘ mode that it defaults too. Makes you look like you have makeup on. It’s very aggressive. Very naff.

If it’s using the same app as the Honor 9, it’s one of the buttons on the top of the screen. Dead centre on the Honor

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Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

What i would like to know though is why so many board housewives aparently want to meet me for sex !

Aren’t most ads based on your search history? ??

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