The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

I give up, when I was born luck must have been in short suppy.
The guy came round to fix my broardband, changed the router
for a new one and checked the cable, everything up and running.
Two hours later bugger all, well 1.30 mbps Ahhhhhhhhhh.

 

[numbnuts]

Just spent 1/2 hours talking to a guy in India, he said " the router in new and it has to settle down,
so give it until Saturday to see what happens, then call me back .....Bye.
I think there is a saying "don't pi$$ up my back and tell me it's raining"

 

[Oldhippy]

I'd thought it would either be on or off @numbnuts the days of warming up the valves are long gone.

 

[Exlaser2]

Afternoon all from a now sunny Coventry , it won’t last 😀.
Car is all fixed, it’s very nice to have a working handbrake again which has made me happy slightly offset by being £250 lighter . It’s needed a new rear left brake caliper which was twice as expensive as a none Electronic one . The caliper its self was over half the total cost of the repair . Oh well at least it’s fixed now and I can moan about it on here. 😂
We have had a good morning today , gave my daughter another driving lesson combined with a trip to the sailing club , a coffee shop and a bakery.

 

[BoldonLad]

Just spent 1/2 hours talking to a guy in India, he said " the router in new and it has to settle down,
so give it until Saturday to see what happens, then call me back .....Bye.
I think there is a saying "don't pi$$ up my back and tell me it's raining"

I have no idea if it is valid or not, but, the Openreach engineer who installed our fibre and new router on behalf of Talktalk told me the “router settle down” story too.

I do assume there must be some mechanism for the Broadband suppliers to “adjust” speed, since the same fibre cables (and in some cases, routers) deliver the “entry level” 150 whatever’s as deliver the mega fast 1000 whatever’s.

I therefore conclude that the different speed packages are really a marketing ploy, rather than a different product.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just spent 1/2 hours talking to a guy in India, he said " the router in new and it has to settle down,
so give it until Saturday to see what happens, then call me back .....Bye.
I think there is a saying "don't pi$$ up my back and tell me it's raining"

That is total and complete bull****

but when some service centre drone on another continent tells you that there is often not much you can do about it

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just been looking at the BBC One schedule to see what we need to set up to record

Found something at night on Friday called "Adult Programme" - apparently we are not allowed to see anything about it unless we type our PIN in
(nearly said PIN Number just to annoy people - but I'm being nice today!!)

Anyway - we found anotehr one on Sunday!!

Seems like the BBC are changing their target audience at night!



so I looked online - the BBC site


turns out it is The Graham Norton Show!!
and the repeat

The Ru Paul Drag race on after it is apparently OK - but not that disgusting Graham Norton show!!!!

weird!!