Wednesday is looking wild

thistle_

'Ning

Day off, going to the zoo. Just in time before lockdown.

Looking wet later so might be zwift time.

sungod

'ning

temperature heading back to nippy

ride, cafes, wfh, do some hols research

lincolndave

Morning, clear skies at the moment, dog walked, Alpen for breakfast, no work today, so cycling for me before the predicted deluge.
Have a good day

tlw1

Work stuff than a run and chilled night if I can sort the new Wi-Fi network to a level that keeps teenage kids happy 🙄

veronese68

Morning folks,
Another day of WFH, at least it will be if my laptop would connect to the poxy system at work. So chilling unexpectedly for now.
Wednesday so pub later

Stevo_666

Mornin' All,

Bit of a lie in had. Looks like we got out of Liverpool in good time before they lock it down. Got a day off to sort stuff out but may do a half day and take the other half sometime soon when I feel like it and when the work rush is over.

No lectures for junior this week and next week is just the intro week and foundation stuff so I guess they'll be partying even if they get locked in soon.

hopkinb

tlw1 said:

Work stuff than a run and chilled night if I can sort the new Wi-Fi network to a level that keeps teenage kids happy 🙄

I have Virgin's fastest fibre package. We get up to 370mbps at the router. I then have Google nest wifi to spread it round the house. You have one "router" unit wired to your provider's router (switched to modem mode), then you just plug in the rest round the house. All very user friendly, and the app means you can pause individual devices or set a schedule for the kids etc. It works well, and gets a battering.

Though it sounds like you already have a network, rather than asking for advice.

Ben6899

'ning!

More WFH, AiP sorted, it's nippy here. But bright.

Bar tape and new brakes ordered for the winter bike - will fit those tomorrow along with the new tyres. I might also see if my other wheels (lovely handbuilt Ambrosio) currently fitted with Spesh Roubaix 25/28s will fit in the frame. Might be tight under the front brake caliper (Dolan Preffisio known tight spot!)

Did a Sufferfest last night - first targetted training in ages - and it cleaned my clock!

step83

hopkinb said:

tlw1 said:

Work stuff than a run and chilled night if I can sort the new Wi-Fi network to a level that keeps teenage kids happy 🙄

I have Virgin's fastest fibre package. We get up to 370mbps at the router. I then have Google nest wifi to spread it round the house. You have one "router" unit wired to your provider's router (switched to modem mode), then you just plug in the rest round the house. All very user friendly, and the app means you can pause individual devices or set a schedule for the kids etc. It works well, and gets a battering.

Though it sounds like you already have a network, rather than asking for advice.

I swapped to Vodafone Gigafast when they plugged it in locally, limiting factor is my homeplug and existing home cabling so it maxes to around 800Mbps, can pip to over 1200 on WiFi if your near it now its full FTTP.
Nest WiFi is handy for that, some routers will allow you to set the channels an sometimes actual ports on the router to allow different things, worth checking I know a couple have apps you can use to control access through, can't recall which provider that was though. If you do I think it splits some of your traffic across two bands, so need to make sure that the devices can see both frequencies and also that any SSID's are actually hidden, don't want randoms trying to hook in.

Grey day again in Heckshire, chilly 13c an a bit of fog rolled down the hill this morning to spice up the morning pedal.
Logging going on still in the woods so lots of bits closed an some honking great logs lying around. Did manage to get the mudguards on, quite handy with the rather damp roads just need to fashion an end flap on each to keep any spray right down.

Anyway, onward to mediocrity!

veronese68

Think we need to change broadband provider, we're on the fastest Virgin package but it's not as fast as claimed. I've been told it's whatever they claim up to the junction box in the street but then it gets split into several houses, so if all your neighbours are on Virgin you only get full speed at 3am. With lots of people wfh it's a bit of a shitshow.
Problem is I find it so dull I CBA to do anything about it.

sungod

are g.network in your area yet?

they're slowly digging up every street in london, sometimes twice, to run the fibre

900meg symmetric is 48/month on a two-year contract

i've been thinking of getting it to run in parallel (load balanced) with virgin for a while, wfh so much now it is really disruptive every time virgin have a hiccup, if it turns out reliable i'd drop virgin

veronese68

sungod said:

are g.network in your area yet?

Not yet, looks interesting though.

veronese68

I think Ben and I have been well and truly Trumped by DHL, well done m'lord

Ben6899

Well and truly!

thistle_

veronese68 said:

I think Ben and I have been well and truly Trumped by DHL, well done m'lord

Eh? What did I miss?

orraloon

Check the Trump thread.

thistle_

sungod said:

are g.network in your area yet?

they're slowly digging up every street in london, sometimes twice, to run the fibre

900meg symmetric is 48/month on a two-year contract

i've been thinking of getting it to run in parallel (load balanced) with virgin for a while, wfh so much now it is really disruptive every time virgin have a hiccup, if it turns out reliable i'd drop virgin

Virgin has made it to the big town (the wires have been put in twice but apparently the speed/service is terrible). Just about got fttc here.

Download speed is ok for WFH but could do with something a bit more symmetric. It's a shame you can't get a second phone line and run the fibre with the upload/download speeds reversed then bond the two together.

oxoman

Afternoon All. Feeling decidedly Peed off without a proper phone to use, killed mine yesterday so waiting for repair whilst using a non internet phone from about 10yrs ago. Now also feeling even worse noticing peoples internet speeds, i thought we did ok at 50mbps. Keeps 2 Xbox,s 1 PS1 and numerous other wifi dependant items going.

orraloon

Mmmm. Not quite sure why peeps need 800mbps. I have a basic virgin media deal with 50mbps and works fine, bar the once twice there has been a service outage in past 4 months. Maybe the Illuminati need loads of capacity to control the sheeples? Or summat.

thistle_

I was happy with 3 Mbps until we got fttc a year ago and went up to 40 mbps which is plenty (uploads are a bit painful)

hopkinb

Streaming uhd TV, work video calls, ps4, mini watching YouTube, downloading "stuff", streaming music. All can be happening at the same time. All works with no buffering. It's the number of users and devices here. Otherwise wouldn't be needed.

oxoman

We seem to manage with both lads gaming online with ipads being used as well, plus me and the OH using devices and Netflix etc. Never had buffering, just occasional loss of broadband when the whole area crashes. I can remember when dial up was the only option and it took ages to do anything online.