Disconnects...

Nerval · Dec 08, 2006, 17:01:25

Sooty's got a long tongue, but you've got to get past his teeth to see it.
Dangerous!

Inactive · Dec 08, 2006, 17:04:54

I can put my tongue out and turn it over ( without touching it )...but only in one direction...strange or what?

( Don't answer )..

Rik · Dec 08, 2006, 17:13:48

Quote from: Nerval on Dec 08, 2006, 17:01:25
Sooty's got a long tongue, but you've got to get past his teeth to see it.
Dangerous!

I prefer to observe him grooming!

Rik · Dec 08, 2006, 17:14:32

Quote from: Inactive on Dec 08, 2006, 17:04:54
I can put my tongue out and turn it over ( without touching it )...but only in one direction...strange or what?

( Don't answer )..

Shouldn't that be "answers on a postcard..."?

Danni · Dec 08, 2006, 21:38:27

Quote from: Inactive on Dec 08, 2006, 17:04:54
I can put my tongue out and turn it over ( without touching it )...but only in one direction...strange or what?

( Don't answer )..

Not that strange- I can only turn it over one way as well (if I try the other way it just rolls).

One of the advantages of living in a village- very little noise and light pollution. Of course the disadvantage is living a few miles from the exchange

As for looking like myself- I'd be happy to look like myself from last year, being 6 stone lighter and able to move without pain...

Inactive · Dec 08, 2006, 23:21:03

Quote from: Danni on Dec 08, 2006, 21:38:27

One of the advantages of living in a village- very little noise and light pollution. Of course the disadvantage is living a few miles from the exchange

Best of both worlds here, I live in a quiet village and have a BT exchange for a nearly next door neighbour...

Rik · Dec 09, 2006, 00:34:38

Quote from: Danni on Dec 08, 2006, 21:38:27One of the advantages of living in a village- very little noise and light pollution. Of course the disadvantage is living a few miles from the exchange

I live in the middle of a relatively large new town, Milton Keynes, but I suffer more from aluminium than distance, the best I can hope for with Max is a 2500 profile. Such is life...

QuoteAs for looking like myself- I'd be happy to look like myself from last year, being 6 stone lighter and able to move without pain...

My sympathies, I know the sort of thing you must be feeling, having put on 5st myself through depression and agoraphobia - a mixture of drug side effects, comfort eating and sedentary lifestyle.

jupiter · Dec 09, 2006, 08:55:20

Quote from: rikbean on Dec 09, 2006, 00:34:38
I live in the middle of a relatively large new town, Milton Keynes, but I suffer more from aluminium than distance, the best I can hope for with Max is a 2500 profile.

That's tough - I'm miles from the exchange on a battered coastline and get the same profile.

Trouble is too that the aluminium will get you in the end - helps Alzheimers along I believe. Or is that aluminium teapots?

Rik · Dec 09, 2006, 11:04:55

Aluminium pans, especially those in contact with fruit, iirc. But I won't need any help, I'll just quietly let my brain go to the bit bucket in the sky.

cavillas · Dec 09, 2006, 13:49:01

Quotea mixture of drug side effects, comfort eating and sedentary lifestyle.

isn't that normal for people of our age then?

Rik · Dec 10, 2006, 11:29:32

You may think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

(Like the avatar)

Danni · Dec 11, 2006, 20:32:23

Well, the cables have been upgraded to cat 5, the filters have been changed, and... we now get the wonderful download speeds of 10KB/s. With a BRAS profile of 6000. And a sync of over 7mb.

I'm about to email Simon again...

Nerval · Dec 11, 2006, 21:43:54

With all the chat in the middle about tongues and stuff, I've lost where you're up to.

I thought the problem was disconnections, not speed.

Re speed, I notice a lot of exchanges (including mine) have gone to red on the VP report here, and if yours has too, then that may well explain the low speed.

Danni · Dec 11, 2006, 23:05:12

We're still getting the disconnections too. Just we now have the added problem of speeds around the same we got on Supanet.

Rowlands Gill exchange is currently green.

Danni · Jan 08, 2007, 23:22:39

Having bagged a different (fully working) router and an extension cord for the power supply, we now have it plugged into the test socket... and our sync rate has gone down from what it was, as has the DS margin and our attenuation has gone up. Apart from the now very real danger that someone will trip over a cable and fall down the stairs, any ideas why things get worse when plugged into the test socket?

Rik · Jan 09, 2007, 08:19:33

What happens if you go back to the normal socket that you connect to? If that's also down, then it suggests a fault with the master socket or line.

Nerval · Jan 09, 2007, 08:25:24

Unless you're using extra cables to plug it into the master socket.

If EVERYTHING else is the same when you plug it into the master socket, then the socket's faulty (as Rik says).

Rik · Jan 09, 2007, 08:34:47

We concur.

Danni · Jan 10, 2007, 16:41:18

I dunno what it was- both the normal socket and test socket were the same (and I put our modem the in place of the router with the same results). I reconnected everything up and things improved. It could be a faulty socket I suppose, but since things have settled down (and I know for the future there's nothing wrong with our wiring) I'll just leave it for now.