Posts by AndrueC

Only if you are a mouse

How dare you Sir! He is a rat, and proud of it.

Re: Erm...

our village's one-and-only FTTC box a mile out of the village,

Presumably because that's where the original PCP is.

Installing an FTTC cabinet next to an existing PCP is relatively simple. You might only need a concrete plinth laying and a hole drilling down into existing ducting. Then you just run the patch cables from the old PCP to the new cabinet and back again. Worst case scenario is a short trench and new ducting (a few yards at most).

But installing an FTTC cabinet where there isn't an existing PCP could be very expensive. You would probably have to reroute most of the lines in the village. That could involve major roadworks or at least a couple of weeks installing poles or new cable runs.

As for why the original PCP is out there that's probably because at the time the network was built that was the last place where all the cables were together. From that point on some cables go to your village, others go to farms or isolated properties or maybe another village.

Re: Methinks MSFT (and some here) are taking this too seriously.

Friday obligatory Dilbert cartoon.

Re: Nice to see...

This is six months later. Doesn't inspire too much confidence.

But, to be strictly fair, nothing any government has done has inspired me with confidence. Domestic or foreign.

Re: Smart Water Meter

I got a new water meter a few years ago. It was an improvement because the one it replaced was under my kitchen sink and was hardly ever officially read. The new one has two parts to it with one being an outside reader so no-one has to enter my property to read it.

The installer placed it outside my kitchen window. In the back garden. Behind a locked gate.

Still, at least it's easier to read because I don't have to move stuff around in a cupboard to get to it.

He installed it upside down.

I sometimes think the world is populated almost entirely by idiots.

Re: Get off my lawn!

Since common sense has gone the way of the dodo, there should be a law : powered OFF means NO CURRENT APPLIED.

Agreed. Will put it on the list right below 'fibre broadband'.

Re: Not all of London has 'superfast' Broadband

Do you ever stop pushing the well worn BT biased line 'FTTP is expensive, FTTC is cheap', bullshit?

Maybe you should have read the article (or even just the headline) more carefully.

You (my highlghting): FTTC rollout is only headline 'superficially cheaper', when you specifically select 'easy' rollout locations where there are existing cabinets

And from the article:He said the measures are "part of a package aimed at keeping businesses in the UK" and are not really intended to improve connectivity outside of major cities.

Your points about cost and location are valid. Unfortunately they are not relevant to this news article. Nor, consequently, as a criticism of my response. In the areas this funding is going to target FTTC is considerably cheaper than FTTP.

Mind you they have been talking about 'gold standard fibre' and if they are targeting businesses FTTP makes more sense than FTTC so you may well get your wish.

Maybe you can 'like' the robbery?

Re: It might just fly

In the end though I doubt this whole drones for deliveries is ever going to get anywhere.

You don't think the idea will fly?

Re: Should the courts hold an entire huge company...

The Mote in God's Eye is my favourite novel of his

I think it'd have to be The Legacy of Heorot for me although I also have fond memories of Lucifer's Hammer. Death and destruction on a global scale with the bonus of a tribe of cannibals - what's not to like about that?

:)

Itunes on a PC ?

It used to be the only way to get stuff to/from an iPod. I don't know if it still is. I vaguely recall some third-party solution several years ago. iTunes is not a very pleasant experience. It has that 'Mummy knows best' feel about it that leaves you feeling vaguely uneasy that it's not actually doing what you want it to.

Updating your library is particularly fraught. I buy music and copy it to my main library (accessed by Logitech Music Server or whatever it is they call it these days). But as I have a couple of iPods(*) I periodically have to sync the two libraries. Now in any other such application you'd just drag a folder into the application and it would figure out the difference and just copy those files. Or there'd be an import option which did the same. iTunes has one or the other (can't remember which) but it just duplicates existing albums. Actually even worse - it duplicates the tracks but keeps them in the same folder. So instead I have to work out how up to date the iTunes library is then manually select the newer albums folders and copy them across. It's a lot of hassle and something I try not to do too often.

(*)Because I wanted a music player that:

* Could hold all my music.

* Had an album shuffle option.

* Automatically started playing when connected to my car and I started the engine.

Connectivity options for my car are many: USB, Apple Connector, HDMI, Aux. I'd be mildly interested if anyone here knew of another music player that fit the bill :-/

Re: Oh goody

I knew there was another reason for paying a fiver a month for a static IP.

That would be a WAN IP address. This issue appears to relate to DHCP which manages LAN IP addresses.

In more detailed terms: The issue seems to relate to the way people's routers are handing out addresses to Windows 10 machines on their LAN (or the way those machines respond to that advisement). Your static IP address relates to the way the world communicates with your router over the public internet.

The original forum post was from 2015. I installed mine last month - so over a year and Logitech have still not fixed it. Mine worked but would periodically go into a fugue state for ten minutes. Giving it a static IP address fixed that. I still wish they had redesigned the remote but it's working well now.

Odd. I thought people used 'X' because they were abbreviating the name.

Re: compuserve anyone

Amazingly I'm pretty sure I can remember my ID:

100237,2643

Re: Price

what my wife is looking for and (rather sensibly) thinks anything large than 5" is bulky

Dabbs, is that you?

You'll be telling us that hardly anyone gets defenestrated next.

Re: Alternatives

Nah, shouldn't be that bad. The reason Mr Musk needs several thousand satellites is because they will be orbiting in LEO - about 800 miles high. The latency on that shouldn't be noticeable.

No it's that '2GB/s' I'd take issue with. Firstly it's more likely to be '2Gb/s' but either way that's a lot of radio bandwidth to find. Spot beaming might help a bit but I can't see that being per-user. I don't think you could even have a service that allowed bursting to 2Gb/s.

It might possibly be the total bandwidth available at ground level but that will then be shared amongst who knows how many users. 2Gb/s (even 2GB/s) shared by 22 million households in the UK ain't so clever.

Good ideas apart from the publicly owned bit. Governments have a proven track record of cocking those up big style.

Re: Battery Life

My S7 Edge isn't too bad. Admittedly I don't use it very much. The occasional SMS, streaming audio over bluetooth for an hour or so most days. Occasional incoming emails. I'm currently getting five days out of a charge. It seems to lose about 4% overnight when my WAP (and if the events run so is the phone's wifi(*)) is off and I live in a low-signal area (one or two bars). Then another 9% during the day typically.

But one thing annoys me (a lot). When I first got the phone email response was patchy to non-existent and it couldn't sync my contacts. I eventually discovered it was caused by the new Doze feature. Despite whitelisting my mail client it still failed. Eventually I found app called 'Disable Doze' and now my mail client maintains its IMAP connection.

What irks me (aside from the hassle of figuring this stuff out) is that despite disabling Doze my battery consumption is the same. So it seems the Android developers have gone to all that trouble and all they achieved is nearly destroying functionality I've been relying on for several years. Absolutely no battery savings from it for me at all. And now I hear that Nougat has an even more aggressive version of Doze. I might be about to end up with a phone that can't notify of new emails when they arrive.

(*)The event timer seems to still be a vicitim of Doze somehow.

Re: "on the UK island of Jersey"

Honestly, we kinda just wanted to see what reaction we'd get.

Causing outrage amongst us commentards? Where's the sport in that?

Obligatory Dilbert.

Re: Explanation please...

other ISPs' criteria

Except that historically the other CP's criteria (leaving aside Altnets for now) has been more restrictive than BT's. The original LLU roll-out shows us that as does the size of VM's network. Has your exchange been unbundled yet? Have VM offered to cable your street yet?

Alnets have shown great willingness and ability to go where few others (even BT) dare to go but they are relying on exclusive access to their network and in some cases free local labour, friendly wayleave agreements and not caring about making money. That doesn't scale very well and it's hard to see how openreach could get involved there in any shape or form.