JordanKZ

Fine in Lerwick:

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2947560522.png

 

 

Pretty terrible in my part of Lerwick...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2947590456.png

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Any chance of a tl;dr?

-16.21 for lecky

I have no idea where you get this figure from. My electric bill is just under £100 a month and I live on my own in a one bedroom flat.

The idea that someone is walking around with the specific intent of looking for dog feces just to spray paint them, is more concerning to me than the actual problem of people not picking up after their dogs.

Seriously, what kind of person is that obsessed with this problem?

Been with Plusnet for three years now. Not a single complaint.

Insert madness here

... You're completely nuts. Seriously.

Since Saturday I've had pretty much stonking speeds. Getting up to 2.4MB/s on Plusnet here in Lerwick. I moved a few things on my network, changed a router setting and it seemed to do the trick.

I'm finding the ADSL2+ slower than our old ADSL connections... Any ideas?...

 

Well, I think with 6.9Mb download and 1.09Mb upload, most people will suggest "be thankful and stop whingeing"

 

You say Plusnet only moved you over a few days ago. Have you actually followed their advice of giving the system time to learn to stabilise your line?

Trust me, it doesn't feel like 6.9Mbit down due to the fluctuations.

I wasn't actually given any advice at all. They just said to me I'd get moved over and that's that. But if it's a case of waiting, then that's fine. I just wanted to see if anyone else was having any problems, that's all

I'm finding the ADSL2+ slower than our old ADSL connections. I got moved over to the 21CN network by Plusnet a few days ago and my connection has some serious problems sustaining any kind of decent speeds.

Speedtest (slower than what I used to get, no where near what I should be...)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2449487730.png

Steam download chart, just stopping at random. Doesn't matter what time of day I attempt to do this at.

http://i.imgur.com/DPPNZxx.png

Connection status off my router

http://i.imgur.com/wefSevg.png

Any ideas? I'm baffled to be honest.

According to Sam Knows... 21CN is now live on the Lerwick exchange. Not sure if that's actually correct mind. But I have been pulling 1MB/s this morning, usually I don't get over 800KB/s.

Not surprised anybody is confused about computer specs to be honest. The IT market goes to great lengths to keep the general public confused. That way they will keep on spending money on machines with power that they will never actually use.

 

Intel decided to 'streamline' their processor range by bringing out the i3, i5 and i7 processors. Simple really....

 

i3 is Entry Level

i5 is Mid Range

i7 is Pro

 

Except it isn't. Each processor has a range within it. Some of the i5 processors are faster than the i7's. The end consumer doesn't realise this, and they have no need to.

 

I do take exception to tha fact that Intel processors are miles better than AMD's without any explanation. As the two main CPU manufacturers out there, they both tend to take turns as to who has the fastest/bestest chips around. Sometimes Intel has the stronghold, sometimes AMD does. Neither are worse in that respect, it just depends what is available on the market at the time.

That doesn't even work any more either. Even low end i3 Ivy Bridge chips are staggeringly more powerful than anything "entry level" that we've ever had before.

Oh and yeah, stay the hell away from AMD chips. Single core performance even on their fastest chips is utterly pathetic. It's a real shame, AMD used to be a great cheap alternative before the Core 2 age.

Posty-post.

 

I'm afraid not. No exchange in Shetland has non-BT equipment in.

 

Info for the Sandwick exchange: http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/NSSSH

 

Sky have told you filthy lies!

At this point, if it's not another issue with BT hardware it just appears that they're heavily throttling users at peak times :-/

Desperately trying to get mine sorted before Blops2 comes out, quickly running oota time

This is the world trying to tell you something. Trust me.

I've had issues the last couple of weeks with extremely high latency in the evenings... I just tend to try and ignore it. But it means online gaming is out of the picture. Which is nice.

Scrabble is available for all Android devices running 2.1 and higher... Unfortunately, Electronic Arts owns the rights to the Scrabble game and does not have the rights to sell it in the UK due to strange legal issues. I'd imagine this is why it's not available on the iPad either.

Also, don't buy a Samsung Galaxy Tab. They're terrible. Buy an Asus Nexus 7.

Well, just bought 2 tickets for The Dark Knight Rises on the 12th. Not been in the cinema yet, looking forward to it.

How much do you guys pay for Broadband? I know it's a shed load....just wondering how big the shed was;)

I'm paying £35/m on Plusnet's unadvertised unlimited package and that includes line rental and evening & weekend calls too.

Not a bad deal, tbh.

It's Batman and Ted, can't wait

Guessing we can't buy tickets from Shetland box office yet?

Its just im finding we are getting quiet a bit of ghosting and don't think our scart cable is to great so hoping a hd cable might help

Also i noticed with all cables they have different sized connectors at end so wanna make sure i get right one

I don't think the cable was ever the problem, Technika buy older panels from companies like LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony. Quite frankly when it comes to TV's you get what you pay for. The more you pay the better the set (generally speaking).

Thanks folks for the replys.

 

I will look into satellite - anyone used/using this already? It would be useful to hear about experiences.

Satellite is more reliable (in theory) than using BT for your internet access. But it's not quick and your upload will be staggeringly terrible due to latency.

To be honest, the BT solution is the best we're going to get until they (or someone else) finally starts to provide fibre connections to residential properties.

We have a Humax Foxsat Freesat HD box that did a channel re-scan on it's own and entered an "Olympics" section in the main EPG menu. 24 HD channels? Yes please.

Well.. DITT have packed their office back up and clearly stuff is going during next month.

No idea what's going on with the cinema stuff though. The entire project seems incredibly non-committal right now.

I recently used Macrium Reflect to clone a HDD. Worked perfectly. The PC didn't think anything had changed.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx