biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Oh dear!
If you have been watching the Repair Shop regularly you should now be able to repair it .
Superglue to the rescue
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Superglue to the rescue
That's just motivated me to investigate further. A quick search shows that the company are " Giganet " The deals on their web page state 150 Mb/s for £32, 300Mb/s for £35, 500Mb/s for £37 and 900Mb/s for £40. The website also says " no nasty surprises " UK based team with no call centres " and 3 months "free" with no exit fees plus a "free" Modem. Digging further down the slew of sponsored results on Google takes me to a page from the City Fibre that you mentioned, stating that they are in partnership.
I've been very happy with Zen over the years, last week I received an Email with my annual renewal options. They're still honouring the " no price increase " guarantee they offered when I signed up. I'm getting 70+Mb/s which is more than adequate for our usage.
Replying to myself as I saw a previous message that I was composing has been appended to an unrelated message about hot water bottles!
When my internet went on the blink BT were scratching their heads as to why my line distance was 150 metres to the cabinet thats about 20 metres away. In the end they sent a cherry picker and a gang to dig up the road to investigate. My connection went from our house to a Telegraph pole virtually outside the house. The pole has a " Do Not Climb " notice hence the cherry picker. The cable then followed a convoluted route under a side road to the original green cabinet, from there to a new green cabinet with the DSLAMs then back to the original green cabinet before heading underground to the end of our road, under the main road, up a telegraph pole to a junction box and then back to the original green cabinet. They ended up chucking in a new length of cable from our pole to the DSLAM cabinet. The team were here for most of the day, working in pouring rain. I kept them supplied with coffee / tea and biscuits and aent them off with a couple of decent bottles of wine.
Thats how it works city fibre don't provide any end users service they just provide a network for others to piggy back on to. In Same way mobile companies do.
That deal you quote is pretty rubbish we pay less than £32 for 125 meg.
My next door neighbour, bless him, wouldn't dream of walking to our nearest shop; a Co-op less than ten minutes walk. He drives his Transit, regardless of how little; a box of stock cubes or a bottle of milk, he may be buying.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
My next door neighbour, bless him, wouldn't dream of walking to our nearest shop; a Co-op less than ten minutes walk. He drives his Transit, regardless of how little; a box of stock cubes or a bottle of milk, he may be buying.
We have a neighbour that's the same
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Brrrrrrrrrrrrright and Chhhhhhhhhhhhhhilly here chez Casa Reynard.
Slept well, but had to get up during the night to put an extra fleece throw on the bed. Well, sort of. I wrapped myself in the throw and then rolled into bed. Sooooo toasty.
Anyways, I've spent the morning making inroads into dismantling a dead apricot tree. I'm sad, as I grew it from a pip about 30 years ago, and it's always fruited well. Then last year it started looking pretty ropey and I thought I'd give it one more year. It didn't come into leaf at all this year, so I'm finally cutting it down. It's right up against the garage wall though, so a lot of careful thought is needed as to where to make the cuts. One wrong move would bring down the guttering or smash the window.
Have to confess I was stressing about it, but the top is now down and mostly trimmed / turned into logs. The only damage was a whippy bit pinging me in the chops when I went in with the loppers.
Although what I don't understand, is how I can get sawdust in my undercrackers while wearing so many layers...
Black bag and green bin have been collected / emptied, and both respective teams have their boxes of Xmas biskits.
Time for luncheon, I has a hungry.
Slept well, but had to get up during the night to put an extra fleece throw on the bed. Well, sort of. I wrapped myself in the throw and then rolled into bed. Sooooo toasty.
Anyways, I've spent the morning making inroads into dismantling a dead apricot tree. I'm sad, as I grew it from a pip about 30 years ago, and it's always fruited well. Then last year it started looking pretty ropey and I thought I'd give it one more year. It didn't come into leaf at all this year, so I'm finally cutting it down. It's right up against the garage wall though, so a lot of careful thought is needed as to where to make the cuts. One wrong move would bring down the guttering or smash the window.
Have to confess I was stressing about it, but the top is now down and mostly trimmed / turned into logs. The only damage was a whippy bit pinging me in the chops when I went in with the loppers.
Although what I don't understand, is how I can get sawdust in my undercrackers while wearing so many layers...
Black bag and green bin have been collected / emptied, and both respective teams have their boxes of Xmas biskits.
Time for luncheon, I has a hungry.
When on holiday in Tunisia in 2000, we were briefly caught in a sandstorm. Had never realised how talc fine the sand is until we got back to the hotel and it had got into EVERYTHING - !Although what I don't understand, is how I can get sawdust in my undercrackers while wearing so many layers...
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
My Buffalo Mitts have arrived, delayed due to strikes. Already have one pair of mitts but thought I’d get a second pair for those cold weather cycling days.
That is a good idea, thank you. Shortly after posting that one of the cats took pity on me and snuggled by my feet 😍 I've also found that a very milky coffee with sugar tastes much better at present than my normal unsweetened black coffee.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
My next door neighbour, bless him, wouldn't dream of walking to our nearest shop; a Co-op less than ten minutes walk. He drives his Transit, regardless of how little; a box of stock cubes or a bottle of milk, he may be buying.
Yeabut is he fit for a 10 minute walk?
If I lived on the same level as our only shop I would take the trike but walking for 10 minutes is a totally different matter. I would almost certainly fall over unless I had a railing or wall for support.
In fact I am 200 ft. higher up a steep hill so trike is not possible.
and a read of latest edition of OMEGA magazine.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
And that's my working Thursday done nearly 
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
sympathies - in high school, I would cut other classes, so I could hang out in wood shop. I don't know how, but when I got home from school, I had saw dust in my "under crackers"Although what I don't understand, is how I can get sawdust in my undercrackers while wearing so many layers...
