sunday we're above the gulf of arabia, our altitude is falling

homers_double

We just borrow a dog every now and again

Stevo_666

homers_double said:

We just borrow a dog every now and again

There are probably a few things it would be handier to be able to borrow from time to time than to have around all the time.

thistle_

homers_double said:

We just borrow a dog every now and again

Good idea.
People are often happy to lend you their dog while they go on holiday etc. to save on kennels etc.
Win win.

orraloon

Back in the zone. Feeling chilled and relaxed tonight, it's the positive mental effects of riding one's bike and enjoying life. For multiple reasons Sept and Oct were v bike-ride-light after a couple of active summer months post The Relocation.

Loss of fitness of course meant heavy breathing and backing off on the upslopes. Really enjoyed the ride though. Must Keep On It through winter; getting linked up with local CyclingUK / CTC peeps will help.

I ❤️ riding my bike. Beer time...

beansnikpoh

50 minutes sitting stationary on the M5. How do you crash on a 3 lane motorway when it's dry and sunny, unless you're drunk or fannying about on a phone?

Now watching my new telly. I splashed out on a well reviewed oled one. Very impressive. I have a soundbar and a sub. I also bought some rear speakers effectively for free because I had a 30% discount on Sonos recycling deal. Not yet told Mrs B³ that I intend to wall mount them. I expect resistance.

pinno

orraloon said:

Cats! Dogs! It's not even raining.

Ride rided, at last a proper ride, been ages since last one, wot wiv.... things. Graveller and 38s so more effort / less pace, but G-One Allrounds pretty spot on for the amount of mush, leaves, general gloop across the back roads.

Weather getting weirder, mid Nov, 17 degrees, hazy sunshine plus flying insects...

Yep - rescued a Red Admiral that was trapped in the conservatory.

tlw1

thistle_ said:

homers_double said:

Also managed to slip in an entry for DEVA triathlon in June

tlw and I will come and heckle

Mmm shall we do it?

tlw1

Bit tired after a shoot night at home 😂

thistle_

tlw1 said:

thistle_ said:

homers_double said:

Also managed to slip in an entry for DEVA triathlon in June

tlw and I will come and heckle

Mmm shall we do it?

I'll pass. I can manage 5k once a week and don't think I'm going to improve much any time soon

Wheelspinner

beansnikpoh said:

50 minutes sitting stationary on the M5. How do you crash on a 3 lane motorway when it's dry and sunny, unless you're drunk or fannying about on a phone?

Now watching my new telly. I splashed out on a well reviewed oled one. Very impressive. I have a soundbar and a sub. I also bought some rear speakers effectively for free because I had a 30% discount on Sonos recycling deal. Not yet told Mrs B³ that I intend to wall mount them. I expect resistance.

I bought a new OLED on the weekend, gets delivered on Friday. Still be rubbish content most of the time, but should be way better for movies, and some sport stuff. Looking forward to giving it a a try-out with a 4K version of some of my favourite films.

beansnikpoh

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

50 minutes sitting stationary on the M5. How do you crash on a 3 lane motorway when it's dry and sunny, unless you're drunk or fannying about on a phone?

Now watching my new telly. I splashed out on a well reviewed oled one. Very impressive. I have a soundbar and a sub. I also bought some rear speakers effectively for free because I had a 30% discount on Sonos recycling deal. Not yet told Mrs B³ that I intend to wall mount them. I expect resistance.

I bought a new OLED on the weekend, gets delivered on Friday. Still be rubbish content most of the time, but should be way better for movies, and some sport stuff. Looking forward to giving it a a try-out with a 4K version of some of my favourite films.

That's what I reckoned. I only have streaming, so I choose what to watch. There's stacks of good content that I've not seen yet, and still have no time to watch.

Wheelspinner

beansnikpoh said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

50 minutes sitting stationary on the M5. How do you crash on a 3 lane motorway when it's dry and sunny, unless you're drunk or fannying about on a phone?

Now watching my new telly. I splashed out on a well reviewed oled one. Very impressive. I have a soundbar and a sub. I also bought some rear speakers effectively for free because I had a 30% discount on Sonos recycling deal. Not yet told Mrs B³ that I intend to wall mount them. I expect resistance.

I bought a new OLED on the weekend, gets delivered on Friday. Still be rubbish content most of the time, but should be way better for movies, and some sport stuff. Looking forward to giving it a a try-out with a 4K version of some of my favourite films.

That's what I reckoned. I only have streaming, so I choose what to watch. There's stacks of good content that I've not seen yet, and still have no time to watch.

I've a conundrum... I don't stream much of anything beyond some YouTube stuff, and music. I do get some cable TV type content via my broadband, but even 1080i video periodically has buffering issues and dropouts.

I can't subscribe to things like Netflix or any similar content channels for UHD stuff, simply because my broadband is hopelessly inadequate for the task. On a good day, I am still stuck with about 20 Mbps at best.

My only option to fix that is to switch to Starlink as the ISP, which would give me somewhere around 10x the download speed I have now. My problem is I'm no fan of the owner anyway, and it means sending money offshore to a foreign entity who are unlikely to make any meaningful tax contribution in Oz for the revenue they generate here.

pblakeney

Wheelspinner said:

...and it means sending money offshore to a foreign entity who are unlikely to make any meaningful tax contribution in Oz for the revenue they generate here.

Ditto any paid for streaming service if financial morals are an issue.

MattFalle

thistle_ said:

'Ning

Ride, cafe, then work stuff.

I think @MattFalle posted in another thread the other day, not sure what we've done to upset him.

Ciao

MFs are around, just been v busy recently so only time to pop in and out and not sow words of wisdom and sense and joy.

tbh, its also been quite dry across the forum - a lot of Mudk and people moaning that Wiggle have stopped free returns - just put it in the post ffs.

also been on a bit of a downer and m fully aware of what I'm like when I'm like this and so try to keep out of the wy.....

sungod

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

50 minutes sitting stationary on the M5. How do you crash on a 3 lane motorway when it's dry and sunny, unless you're drunk or fannying about on a phone?

Now watching my new telly. I splashed out on a well reviewed oled one. Very impressive. I have a soundbar and a sub. I also bought some rear speakers effectively for free because I had a 30% discount on Sonos recycling deal. Not yet told Mrs B³ that I intend to wall mount them. I expect resistance.

I bought a new OLED on the weekend, gets delivered on Friday. Still be rubbish content most of the time, but should be way better for movies, and some sport stuff. Looking forward to giving it a a try-out with a 4K version of some of my favourite films.

That's what I reckoned. I only have streaming, so I choose what to watch. There's stacks of good content that I've not seen yet, and still have no time to watch.

I've a conundrum... I don't stream much of anything beyond some YouTube stuff, and music. I do get some cable TV type content via my broadband, but even 1080i video periodically has buffering issues and dropouts.

I can't subscribe to things like Netflix or any similar content channels for UHD stuff, simply because my broadband is hopelessly inadequate for the task. On a good day, I am still stuck with about 20 Mbps at best.

My only option to fix that is to switch to Starlink as the ISP, which would give me somewhere around 10x the download speed I have now. My problem is I'm no fan of the owner anyway, and it means sending money offshore to a foreign entity who are unlikely to make any meaningful tax contribution in Oz for the revenue they generate here.

tbh 20 meg could be enough, but things like latency and how your isp does things may be more of an issue, for domestic service it's almost certain there'll be other people 'sharing' the same connection at the telco end, i.e. at busy times you'll get reduced speed

try checking your connection using https://fast.com/# and click the 'show more info' button, it should show you the latency, lower is better, > 100 milliseconds is likely to be trouble

if the isp router has crappy wifi, using an ethernet cable for the tv rather than wireless might help

Wheelspinner

sungod said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

50 minutes sitting stationary on the M5. How do you crash on a 3 lane motorway when it's dry and sunny, unless you're drunk or fannying about on a phone?

Now watching my new telly. I splashed out on a well reviewed oled one. Very impressive. I have a soundbar and a sub. I also bought some rear speakers effectively for free because I had a 30% discount on Sonos recycling deal. Not yet told Mrs B³ that I intend to wall mount them. I expect resistance.

I bought a new OLED on the weekend, gets delivered on Friday. Still be rubbish content most of the time, but should be way better for movies, and some sport stuff. Looking forward to giving it a a try-out with a 4K version of some of my favourite films.

That's what I reckoned. I only have streaming, so I choose what to watch. There's stacks of good content that I've not seen yet, and still have no time to watch.

I've a conundrum... I don't stream much of anything beyond some YouTube stuff, and music. I do get some cable TV type content via my broadband, but even 1080i video periodically has buffering issues and dropouts.

I can't subscribe to things like Netflix or any similar content channels for UHD stuff, simply because my broadband is hopelessly inadequate for the task. On a good day, I am still stuck with about 20 Mbps at best.

My only option to fix that is to switch to Starlink as the ISP, which would give me somewhere around 10x the download speed I have now. My problem is I'm no fan of the owner anyway, and it means sending money offshore to a foreign entity who are unlikely to make any meaningful tax contribution in Oz for the revenue they generate here.

tbh 20 meg could be enough, but things like latency and how your isp does things may be more of an issue, for domestic service it's almost certain there'll be other people 'sharing' the same connection at the telco end, i.e. at busy times you'll get reduced speed

try checking your connection using https://fast.com/# and click the 'show more info' button, it should show you the latency, lower is better, > 100 milliseconds is likely to be trouble

if the isp router has crappy wifi, using an ethernet cable for the tv rather than wireless might help

Thanks SG. Checking that speed I (currently) am showing only 15 Mbps.

The service I am on here is essentially a 4G network, used for "remote" area provisioning of broadband. It's separate from the mobile network altogether, run by a different company. One problem with it is they spread the capacity thin, so in order to be able to "guarantee" reliable service they limit the speed of everyone attached to it. They did try a little more flexible speed for a while and I would get upwards of 40 at different times of the day, but they had so many complaints from users about the reliability of the connection they went back to the throttled service. Or something.

I use a Google mesh wifi setup here as the house is a lot of solid brick internal walls (and just plain huge) so the signal doesn't penetrate that well. The TV box is currently hard wired to one of those mesh units which works ok, mostly.

Stevo_666

MattFalle said:

thistle_ said:

'Ning

Ride, cafe, then work stuff.

I think @MattFalle posted in another thread the other day, not sure what we've done to upset him.

Ciao

MFs are around, just been v busy recently so only time to pop in and out and not sow words of wisdom and sense and joy.

tbh, its also been quite dry across the forum - a lot of Mudk and people moaning that Wiggle have stopped free returns - just put it in the post ffs.

also been on a bit of a downer and m fully aware of what I'm like when I'm like this and so try to keep out of the wy.....

But the cure is talking to us lot...

MattFalle

Stevo_666 said:

MattFalle said:

thistle_ said:

'Ning

Ride, cafe, then work stuff.

I think @MattFalle posted in another thread the other day, not sure what we've done to upset him.

Ciao

MFs are around, just been v busy recently so only time to pop in and out and not sow words of wisdom and sense and joy.

tbh, its also been quite dry across the forum - a lot of Mudk and people moaning that Wiggle have stopped free returns - just put it in the post ffs.

also been on a bit of a downer and m fully aware of what I'm like when I'm like this and so try to keep out of the wy.....

But the cure is talking to us lot...

Thankyou - much appreciated!

sungod

Wheelspinner said:

sungod said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

50 minutes sitting stationary on the M5. How do you crash on a 3 lane motorway when it's dry and sunny, unless you're drunk or fannying about on a phone?

Now watching my new telly. I splashed out on a well reviewed oled one. Very impressive. I have a soundbar and a sub. I also bought some rear speakers effectively for free because I had a 30% discount on Sonos recycling deal. Not yet told Mrs B³ that I intend to wall mount them. I expect resistance.

I bought a new OLED on the weekend, gets delivered on Friday. Still be rubbish content most of the time, but should be way better for movies, and some sport stuff. Looking forward to giving it a a try-out with a 4K version of some of my favourite films.

That's what I reckoned. I only have streaming, so I choose what to watch. There's stacks of good content that I've not seen yet, and still have no time to watch.

I've a conundrum... I don't stream much of anything beyond some YouTube stuff, and music. I do get some cable TV type content via my broadband, but even 1080i video periodically has buffering issues and dropouts.

I can't subscribe to things like Netflix or any similar content channels for UHD stuff, simply because my broadband is hopelessly inadequate for the task. On a good day, I am still stuck with about 20 Mbps at best.

My only option to fix that is to switch to Starlink as the ISP, which would give me somewhere around 10x the download speed I have now. My problem is I'm no fan of the owner anyway, and it means sending money offshore to a foreign entity who are unlikely to make any meaningful tax contribution in Oz for the revenue they generate here.

tbh 20 meg could be enough, but things like latency and how your isp does things may be more of an issue, for domestic service it's almost certain there'll be other people 'sharing' the same connection at the telco end, i.e. at busy times you'll get reduced speed

try checking your connection using https://fast.com/# and click the 'show more info' button, it should show you the latency, lower is better, > 100 milliseconds is likely to be trouble

if the isp router has crappy wifi, using an ethernet cable for the tv rather than wireless might help

Thanks SG. Checking that speed I (currently) am showing only 15 Mbps.

The service I am on here is essentially a 4G network, used for "remote" area provisioning of broadband. It's separate from the mobile network altogether, run by a different company. One problem with it is they spread the capacity thin, so in order to be able to "guarantee" reliable service they limit the speed of everyone attached to it. They did try a little more flexible speed for a while and I would get upwards of 40 at different times of the day, but they had so many complaints from users about the reliability of the connection they went back to the throttled service. Or something.

I use a Google mesh wifi setup here as the house is a lot of solid brick internal walls (and just plain huge) so the signal doesn't penetrate that well. The TV box is currently hard wired to one of those mesh units which works ok, mostly.

hmm, mesh networks can be bad for latency - typically each node in the mesh has to receive the entire packet before sending it on to the next one, the delays stack up

if you get a chance, i'd still try connecting the tv direct to the isp router and see if things are better, as long as the cable is ok you should be ok up to 100 metres

thistle_

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

50 minutes sitting stationary on the M5. How do you crash on a 3 lane motorway when it's dry and sunny, unless you're drunk or fannying about on a phone?

Now watching my new telly. I splashed out on a well reviewed oled one. Very impressive. I have a soundbar and a sub. I also bought some rear speakers effectively for free because I had a 30% discount on Sonos recycling deal. Not yet told Mrs B³ that I intend to wall mount them. I expect resistance.

I bought a new OLED on the weekend, gets delivered on Friday. Still be rubbish content most of the time, but should be way better for movies, and some sport stuff. Looking forward to giving it a a try-out with a 4K version of some of my favourite films.

That's what I reckoned. I only have streaming, so I choose what to watch. There's stacks of good content that I've not seen yet, and still have no time to watch.

I've a conundrum... I don't stream much of anything beyond some YouTube stuff, and music. I do get some cable TV type content via my broadband, but even 1080i video periodically has buffering issues and dropouts.

I can't subscribe to things like Netflix or any similar content channels for UHD stuff, simply because my broadband is hopelessly inadequate for the task. On a good day, I am still stuck with about 20 Mbps at best.

My only option to fix that is to switch to Starlink as the ISP, which would give me somewhere around 10x the download speed I have now. My problem is I'm no fan of the owner anyway, and it means sending money offshore to a foreign entity who are unlikely to make any meaningful tax contribution in Oz for the revenue they generate here.

Don't you have terrestrial TV, or satellite TV?

Wheelspinner

sungod said:

Wheelspinner said:

sungod said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

50 minutes sitting stationary on the M5. How do you crash on a 3 lane motorway when it's dry and sunny, unless you're drunk or fannying about on a phone?

Now watching my new telly. I splashed out on a well reviewed oled one. Very impressive. I have a soundbar and a sub. I also bought some rear speakers effectively for free because I had a 30% discount on Sonos recycling deal. Not yet told Mrs B³ that I intend to wall mount them. I expect resistance.

I bought a new OLED on the weekend, gets delivered on Friday. Still be rubbish content most of the time, but should be way better for movies, and some sport stuff. Looking forward to giving it a a try-out with a 4K version of some of my favourite films.

That's what I reckoned. I only have streaming, so I choose what to watch. There's stacks of good content that I've not seen yet, and still have no time to watch.

I've a conundrum... I don't stream much of anything beyond some YouTube stuff, and music. I do get some cable TV type content via my broadband, but even 1080i video periodically has buffering issues and dropouts.

I can't subscribe to things like Netflix or any similar content channels for UHD stuff, simply because my broadband is hopelessly inadequate for the task. On a good day, I am still stuck with about 20 Mbps at best.

My only option to fix that is to switch to Starlink as the ISP, which would give me somewhere around 10x the download speed I have now. My problem is I'm no fan of the owner anyway, and it means sending money offshore to a foreign entity who are unlikely to make any meaningful tax contribution in Oz for the revenue they generate here.

tbh 20 meg could be enough, but things like latency and how your isp does things may be more of an issue, for domestic service it's almost certain there'll be other people 'sharing' the same connection at the telco end, i.e. at busy times you'll get reduced speed

try checking your connection using https://fast.com/# and click the 'show more info' button, it should show you the latency, lower is better, > 100 milliseconds is likely to be trouble

if the isp router has crappy wifi, using an ethernet cable for the tv rather than wireless might help

Thanks SG. Checking that speed I (currently) am showing only 15 Mbps.

The service I am on here is essentially a 4G network, used for "remote" area provisioning of broadband. It's separate from the mobile network altogether, run by a different company. One problem with it is they spread the capacity thin, so in order to be able to "guarantee" reliable service they limit the speed of everyone attached to it. They did try a little more flexible speed for a while and I would get upwards of 40 at different times of the day, but they had so many complaints from users about the reliability of the connection they went back to the throttled service. Or something.

I use a Google mesh wifi setup here as the house is a lot of solid brick internal walls (and just plain huge) so the signal doesn't penetrate that well. The TV box is currently hard wired to one of those mesh units which works ok, mostly.

hmm, mesh networks can be bad for latency - typically each node in the mesh has to receive the entire packet before sending it on to the next one, the delays stack up

if you get a chance, i'd still try connecting the tv direct to the isp router and see if things are better, as long as the cable is ok you should be ok up to 100 metres

Ah ok. There are three nodes in my setup, and the TV is wired to the furthest one from the router. It’s a weird pile of tech that comes with this service - there’s a roof antenna, connected to a modem inside. That feeds the wifi router. I’m using the Google thing for that as the original one supplied by the telco was fairly crap wifi strength, and simple extender/repeaters just made it worse, which is why I used mesh instead

That modem box is actually a router though I think so I could in theory run a second cable from it to the other end of the house. Just need probably 50 metres of it, and a stack of conduit, plus loads of masonry drill bits and a hammer drill.. lol.

I’ll check the latency figure at the far end and see how it compares.

Thanks!

thistle_

Wheelspinner said:

That modem box is actually a router though I think so I could in theory run a second cable from it to the other end of the house. Just need probably 50 metres of it, and a stack of conduit, plus loads of masonry drill bits and a hammer drill.. lol.

You could get yourself a 50m cable and run it loose temporarily to see if it solves the problem, before getting the drill out.

Wheelspinner

thistle_ said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

Wheelspinner said:

beansnikpoh said:

50 minutes sitting stationary on the M5. How do you crash on a 3 lane motorway when it's dry and sunny, unless you're drunk or fannying about on a phone?

Now watching my new telly. I splashed out on a well reviewed oled one. Very impressive. I have a soundbar and a sub. I also bought some rear speakers effectively for free because I had a 30% discount on Sonos recycling deal. Not yet told Mrs B³ that I intend to wall mount them. I expect resistance.

I bought a new OLED on the weekend, gets delivered on Friday. Still be rubbish content most of the time, but should be way better for movies, and some sport stuff. Looking forward to giving it a a try-out with a 4K version of some of my favourite films.

That's what I reckoned. I only have streaming, so I choose what to watch. There's stacks of good content that I've not seen yet, and still have no time to watch.

I've a conundrum... I don't stream much of anything beyond some YouTube stuff, and music. I do get some cable TV type content via my broadband, but even 1080i video periodically has buffering issues and dropouts.

I can't subscribe to things like Netflix or any similar content channels for UHD stuff, simply because my broadband is hopelessly inadequate for the task. On a good day, I am still stuck with about 20 Mbps at best.

My only option to fix that is to switch to Starlink as the ISP, which would give me somewhere around 10x the download speed I have now. My problem is I'm no fan of the owner anyway, and it means sending money offshore to a foreign entity who are unlikely to make any meaningful tax contribution in Oz for the revenue they generate here.

Don't you have terrestrial TV, or satellite TV?

Yeah, but… this is Straya, maaaate.

We take the worst ideas from elsewhere and dumb them down further.

tlw1

Ffs - back to the hotel bar we go 🙄

thistle_

You put 13/11/22 into the delorean by mistake

seanoconn

thistle_ said:

You put 13/11/22 into the delorean by mistake

😂 very good 👍

pblakeney

thistle_ said:

You put 13/11/22 into the delorean by mistake

Even more interesting, that means the Delorean hit 85 mph. 😉

tlw1

In

pblakeney said:

thistle_ said:

You put 13/11/22 into the delorean by mistake

Even more interesting, that means the Delorean hit 85 mph. 😉

It goes a little faster - apparently