Posts by raglits

The home Wi-Fi upgrade we never asked for is coming. The one we need is not

Give me more range, not more speed!!

Stop making wifi faster and work out a way of improving the range!!

Or maybe have a two pronged approach, better coverage from fewer routers/access points for home users and fast as hell with a gazillion access points required for businesses that want to get rid of cabling to the desks.

Why do I need faster wifi? It's already faster than most devices can read data off the storage anyway (at least for the majority of home users). Even my modest 4 bedroom house has required a mesh system to get decent signal on the top floor (3 storey town house here) and even then I needed to play around with positioning of the main router and the satellite to stop the wireless backhaul from dropping out every so often. The internet connection comes in at the front of the house on the ground floor and wireless signal on the top floor at the back of the house was borderline with most routers (no idea what the BT one is like as it's still in the box with the shrink wrap on it).

Just glad I never connected a landline phone up when we moved here as if I wanted to carry on using the landline I'd have to get the router out the box and either use their router or double NAT as it can't be put into modem only mode. Personally I don't think that they should be allowed to do that but I can't be arsed arguing with them as I never use the landline anyway.

This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week

Re: Linux obviously!

You'll want to use virt-p2v

It's been a while since I did this but from memory you boot from the virt-p2v iso on the machine that you want to virtualise and connect to the KVM host (which has virt-v2v installed on it) via ssh

https://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html covers the basics

Comcast to impose 1.2TB-a-month broadband download limits across more of America from next year

Re: Broadband in the UK

I've just moved over to BT, the package I'm on is normally £50 a month instead of the £40 that I'm paying... Got a deal through the perks at work scheme my company provides as one of the benefits (and got £40 "cash back", albeit in the form of a discount when purchasing something else through the scheme)

Re: Broadband in the UK

I've recently changed from FTTC to FTTP, according to my router (not the ISPs) I'm getting 300 down and 50 up for £39.99 a month (prices will change based on inflation so I'm expecting it to be about £45 a month by the end of the minimum term). I was getting 67 down, 18 up with the old ISP and that was £30 a month.

There are cheaper deals out there if you live in the right area, but that's about the best price I can get at the moment for that speed. I'm banking on it being cheaper with someone else (or maybe higher speeds for the same sort of price) when the contract renewal comes up.

If you live in the right area and can get some of the "community fibre" deals that are only available in certain areas you can get synchronous gigabit speeds for less than £30 a month.

Best speed in my area is 900 down with an upload of 100 (I think) but that's almost £60 a month. I could go with Virgin Media and get the full gig download speed but even that only has about 50 upload and having encountered their customer service in the past I'm not in any hurry to sign up to them again.

UK state of the Internet report: Virgin Media 'fast', BT's PlusNet last

Plusnet user here too

Been with them since we moved out of a Virgin media area and coming up to renewal time again. Assuming this works that same way as last time I'll tell them I'm going to move ISP and they'll match the price of the competitor. One phone call every 18 to 24 months is something I can deal with, especially as the static IP address was a one off charge of £5.

OK, the download speeds are slower than the Virgin package we were on but the upload is actually better and when you're sharing a Plex server with a few family members this is welcome. I run speed tests at random and almost always get 68 down, 18 up.

The standard router is pretty awful (unless they've improved it since I signed up over 3 1/2 years ago), the connection speed was fine but the wifi was rubbish (not great range and would occasionally stop broadcasting altogether) but with a combination of some Draytek kit for connecting to the internet and a wifi mesh system for the majority of kit in the house we don't have any issues (apart from one Nokia phone that really doesn't seem to like staying connected to the wifi).

Hey Dixons, you know what's mobile? Your rapidly shrinking sales

Re: Waste of space

I ordered a freezer a couple of weeks and reserved for collection in store. Got the text to tell me it was ready for collection and wasted my lunch hour going to store, paying for the freezer and then waiting nearly 30 minutes before being told it wasn't in stock in the store and that I'd need to cancel my order and reserve it from another store that did have it in stock!!!

My reply was something along the lines of "I don't need to do anything, you need to sort this out. I have paid for an item after being informed that it was ready for collection, therefore you will provide me with said item as I'm not going to reserve online at another store and waste my time and fuel when your system obviously doesn't know what the stock levels actually are" (there was more but that summary will do)

A short time later I had the freezer I wanted on a next day delivery with a 4 hour time slot. Much to my surprise it did actually arrive during this window but I was not happy in store

It will never be safe to turn off your computer: Prankster harnesses the power of Windows 95 to torment fellow students

Re: Anyone remember the BSOD screensaver?

Was waiting to see if anyone else used that. I installed it on all the Windows servers at the (small) company I worked at and had the boss in a panic saying they'd all crashed. When I pointed out that Exchange, SQL and the file servers were all still working he got really confused :)

It was also the default screensaver on my laptop/desktop until I started working at places that locked them down

It's official! The Register is fake news… according to .uk overlord Nominet. Just a few problems with that claim, though

www.thetoyshop.com is another, it's actually the web site for The Entertainer chain

The Gemini pocket PC is shipping and we've got one. This is what it's like

Re: For those with kids...

Or a slightly different version ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PDxV1kfgzY

Lap(top) of luxury: Porsche Design revs up 2-in-1 Windows 10 slab

Re: Built in Taiwan

Would that be worse than the car that was actually built by the Italians and styled by the Japanese - The infamous Alfa Romeo Arna

Surely if you were going to build a joint Italian-Japanese car you'd get the Italians to style it and the Japanese to build it, not the other way round :)