An answer to bike thieves?

[ColinJ]

I have one but I can't find it.. I'm sure I left it near the coal shed last week. (on Wednesday, I think)

Recycle it! Don't spend an hour or more trying to set up the elusive virtual wifi ...

(You were talking about a USR 9003 router, weren't you?)

 

[ColinJ]

Ooh - cobbletastic fun! I'm off for a few hours now to watch the last 150 km of Paris Roubaix.

Maybe when I return we will have found what the mysterious bike thief deterrent is ...

My vote is for one of these:

 

[Drago]

A picture of Diane Abbot?

 

[PeteXXX]

Recycle it! Don't spend an hour or more trying to set up the elusive virtual wifi ...

(You were talking about a USR 9003 router, weren't you?)

No, I was talking about the thief deterrent that I can't find.
Maybe someone already found it and recycled it, hence the reason I can't locate it!

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I reckon @porteous him/herself is invisible.

 

[mjr]

what Base ?

Ace.

 

[subaqua]

I have had Internet speed problems for a week or so which somehow resolved themselves last night ** so I am catching up on missed races and messing about on here while waiting for the race action to kick off.



** Please allow me to humiliate myself with an admission of my stupidity ...

I thought that my PlusNet router was playing up so I went down to my cellar and retrieved a bag of old routers that I had stored down there. I fished out the first router that came to hand (there were 3 in there) and spent nearly an hour messing about trying to set it up.

I had connected my laptop to the router using an Ethernet cable. The problem was that I couldn't find where the menu entry for the wifi setup was.

I eventually gave up attempting to work it out and tried to go online to search for instructions. The problem was that I hadn't got the replacement router working yet ...

Damn! I swapped back to the original PlusNet router to use that for the search. I Googled 'name of router' plus 'setup' and didn't even get as far as reading the results because I realised that the results came up on screen almost immediately rather than at the glacial pace that I have been suffering recently. I ran the broadband speed checker which had been indicating 0.5 - 1.0 Mb/s for the past week and - there you go -15.3 Mb/s! The router must have had its iKnickers in a twist and powering it down and rebooting it had fixed the problem. Super!

And then I realised that the old router with the mysteriously hard-to-find wifi setup page is a USRobotics 9003 model. That would be the one I used on TalkTalk back in 2003 and which doesn't have a wifi interface ...

Doh .....

 

[derrick]

Three pages on and none the wiser.

 

[Beebo]

What ever it is, for £25 my bet is it will be useless.
The only real solution is a very heavy expensive lock, or dont leave your bike locked up anywhere.

 

[wheresthetorch]

I think it is two tenners and a fiver sellotaped to the the bike with a note saying "please take this instead of my bike".

 

[Rooster1]

 

[Tim Hall]

Has anyone tried one of these? At around £25 I think I will give one a punt!

One of what?

StanleyDerrick, see this. This is this. This ain't something else. This is this. From now on, you're on your own.

 

[andrew_s]

I reckon @porteous him/herself is invisible.

Probably be to embarrassed to come back here now

 

[jefmcg]

He's been away all day. Watch for embarrassment when he gets back.

 

[Rooster1]

All is forgiven.