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From: Flavio Matani on 5 Mar 2010 09:09 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-03-05, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >>> To me it made sense in a "I've sorted this successfully, now I'm fired > >>> with success and am finally gonna tackle that" way. I know the feeling > >>> well. > >> > >>That's the sort of thing that leads to people shouting "How hard can it be?" > >>in a loud, optimistic voice. > >> > >>Seven hours later and, well, ... > > > > Usually I need to call a plasterer about then. > > And/or a plumber, electrician, builder, doctor... .... lawyer... or car mechanic. -- flavio matani guitar tuition http://www.flaviomatani.co.uk http://fflavio.com
From: James Dore on 5 Mar 2010 09:43 On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:19:46 -0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On 4 Mar 2010 22:46:57 GMT, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> >>> Now I have my wondrous new sofa, it's time to get wireless working >>> again. >> >> Can't help with the problem, but your reasoning is delightful. > > Made perfect sense to me - you can't lounge languorously on the sofa > with a laptop if you have a cat5 cable trailing across the rug! Tain't > safe. > > Cheers - Jaimie That's why you put the socket behind the sofa, or in the cabinet with the rest of the living room tech and trail your lead around the back. That way one can shift ISO images about with gigabit speeds, not half-duplex-nearly-100mbit-sometimes-maybe wifi. Or is that just me? -- James Dore New College IT Officer james.dore(a)new / it-support(a)new
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 5 Mar 2010 11:02 On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:43:39 -0000, "James Dore" <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: >On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:19:46 -0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh ><jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >> On 4 Mar 2010 22:46:57 GMT, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >>> Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Now I have my wondrous new sofa, it's time to get wireless working >>>> again. >>> >>> Can't help with the problem, but your reasoning is delightful. >> >> Made perfect sense to me - you can't lounge languorously on the sofa >> with a laptop if you have a cat5 cable trailing across the rug! Tain't >> safe. > >That's why you put the socket behind the sofa, or in the cabinet with the >rest of the living room tech and trail your lead around the back. That way >one can shift ISO images about with gigabit speeds, not >half-duplex-nearly-100mbit-sometimes-maybe wifi. > >Or is that just me? 802.11n for me. Pushes ISO's around nicely, I never bother to go wired to speed things up. Cheers - Jaimie -- "A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions that make it fail." - Jerry Ogdin
From: Peter Ceresole on 5 Mar 2010 11:27 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > 802.11n for me. Pushes ISO's around nicely, I never bother to go wired > to speed things up. Yes, it's pretty good. I used to have it all wired, and my iG5 still is, but it's not practical to wire Anne's MBP, and I was surprised at how quickly N wifi shifts the stuff around. -- Peter
From: Rod on 6 Mar 2010 03:35
On 05/03/2010 10:37, Bella Jones wrote: <> > Yes, it looks as if that's the way. But there is an anecdotal history of > these things suddenly stopping working. > > Anyway am not amused - sofa people came just now with a replacement > cover for the wrong one they delivered it with - and it's still wrong! > > We have had our Airport for a few years now. Lack of grief would have been worth it even if it were to fail soon. But I do believe that the firmware/software on several other devices is much easier than it used to be. Just realised, you actually wrote "Virgin cable router". I read that as "Virgin cable modem" - the thing that connects to the cable and has one ethernet port - was I right or did I miss an important factor? If you are ever going to drop a cup of coffee over it, do so now. :-) BTW With my Edimax wireless access point, and some other kit, experience showed me that it is often necessary to upgrade firmware, whatever, before the device will work properly. Even if the device is significantly newer than the firmware release. -- Rod |