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Oh you lucky sod!
I am now meant to have every weekend off in full for old *** age related recovery reasons.
I finished at four today/yesterday, crashed out to bed at seven, and now having tea, toast, and beer etc, wondering if I am starting very late or a bit early.
I will return to bed when all the painkillers kick in.
I am now meant to have every weekend off in full for old *** age related recovery reasons.
I finished at four today/yesterday, crashed out to bed at seven, and now having tea, toast, and beer etc, wondering if I am starting very late or a bit early.
I will return to bed when all the painkillers kick in.
Shaggy_Dog_
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I love looking at maps on the computer. Sometimes I'll go in to Street View in Google Maps and virtually walk my way along parts of London to that I used to walk many years ago and look at how different some things are and compare it to my memory of them. As a kid I didn't have much money or a car so I got in to the habit of walking places if I wanted to go to them so I like to reminisce and take a virtual stroll down memory lane.
Matt N
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I’ve got one for this thread this afternoon.
We got new fibre-optic wi-fi fitted yesterday… and my word, it’s an absolute revolution! You’ve never known download and upload speeds like it (well, I never have, anyway)!
I just uploaded a video to YouTube for the Speed Build Contest, and a video of a length that used to take 1-2 hours to upload on the old wi-fi… took less than a minute! Yes, the whole 3-4 minute YouTube video had uploaded in full before I’d even finished inputting the video information and had finished processing and checking by the time I was done… it’s nuts! I just find the fact that I can input my video info and then have it uploaded in full HD as soon as I finish absolutely extraordinary!
This is going to sound insane, but I’ve just been downloading and uploading things constantly ever since we got the new wi-fi because I just can’t get over the raw speed!
The wildest part is that we don’t even have the fastest package… so wi-fi even faster than this exists!
We got new fibre-optic wi-fi fitted yesterday… and my word, it’s an absolute revolution! You’ve never known download and upload speeds like it (well, I never have, anyway)!
I just uploaded a video to YouTube for the Speed Build Contest, and a video of a length that used to take 1-2 hours to upload on the old wi-fi… took less than a minute! Yes, the whole 3-4 minute YouTube video had uploaded in full before I’d even finished inputting the video information and had finished processing and checking by the time I was done… it’s nuts! I just find the fact that I can input my video info and then have it uploaded in full HD as soon as I finish absolutely extraordinary!
This is going to sound insane, but I’ve just been downloading and uploading things constantly ever since we got the new wi-fi because I just can’t get over the raw speed!
The wildest part is that we don’t even have the fastest package… so wi-fi even faster than this exists!
Bowser
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What speed was it before and what is it now?
We have dreadful WiFi where i live with little option to upgrade (I've been waiting for Virgin to install fibre for over 3 months, every few weeks i get a text saying it has been delayed and i'm resigned to it never happening) so i get similarly excited when i go somewhere of multitudes higher speeds and can skim through Netflix et al buffer free.
Matt N
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Our figure before was 10-12Mbps download and 0.1Mbps upload, and our figure now is 200Mbps for both. I don't know whether our wi-fi before was particularly bad or our wi-fi now is particularly good, but it feels like living in the future! The streaming quality is impeccable, as are the upload and download speeds!
Funnily enough, we had a similarly hairy experience getting fibre. The provider we went to is Gigaclear, the only people who actually run fibre to where we live (they have separate infrastructure to the regular BT infrastructure, for some reason... their name had become mud locally for a number of years due to the amount of sustained roadworks the installation of their infrastructure caused!), and we had a "pre-installation check" back in June where we were told that there was some issue that meant they couldn't run the cable into our house. Despite communicating with them, we then heard nothing from them until December, when someone came and determined it was fine after all and installed the cable, and then the actual wi-fi installation happened yesterday (someone came, drilled a massive hole in our wall and stuck a separate wi-fi cable through it). Our journey to get Gigaclear fibre has been long and onerous... I hope Virgin comes and fits your fibre eventually!
I'm irrationally happy with it now it's here, though... and we don't even have the highest package! Our package is 200Mbps, and I believe it's the cheapest one, but Gigaclear offers more expensive packages quoting up to 900Mbps!
GooseOnTheLoose
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You didn't ever get to live at halls for your University experience and experience JANET and her ring, did you?
I'm lucky to have had FTTC in all of the places I've lived since 2011.
If you ever get to experience Sohonet though everything else will always feel incredibly slow in comparison.
Matt N
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I've lived at home for the entirety of my university years (all 3 years of undergrad and currently for an MSc year); what exactly is "JANET and her ring", out of interest?
GooseOnTheLoose
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JANET is the Joint Academic Network, which connects and powers most of the UK's Universities and research centres and other educational institutions.
JANET - Wikipedia
Matt N
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I had no idea that UK universities had their own special wi-fi network aside from Eduroam, the wi-fi we're given to use as students... I was under the impression that halls and such were just powered by Eduroam (the student wi-fi network is Eduroam at both University of Gloucestershire and Cardiff University, the two universities I've attended).JANET is the Joint Academic Network, which connects and powers most of the UK's Universities and research centres and other educational institutions.
JANET - Wikipedia
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GooseOnTheLoose
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It really hurts my little goosey head when people conflate Wi-Fi internet access with networks. Wi-Fi is a local networking protocol and delivery mechanism, but the networks which power the backbone are different.
Eduroam is a Wi-Fi hotspot roaming service, which connects to JANET.
I blame age.
Matt N
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As someone who did a Computer Science degree, I should probably know that... I blame the fact that I didn't take any additional networking modules beyond first year!
GooseOnTheLoose
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If you thought that 8 Mbp/s was slow, just be thankful you never had to experience 512 Kbp/s Broadband, or 56 Kbp/s dialup!
Matt N
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100Kbp/s (0.1Mbp/s) was my upload speed until yesterday... based on what you've put, it sounds as though we had upload only twice as fast as dialup, which I only know as the internet my parents had before I was born!
Our download was 10-12Mbp/s, which was middling but serviceable for basic activities other than high quality video streaming, but our upload speed was absolutely dreadful!
GooseOnTheLoose
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Bearing in mind that 56 Kbp/s was the maximum theoretical speed you could get, the actual speeds were often a heck of a lot slower.
I remember that Father Goose spent a good 12 hours at work downloading The Phantom Menace trailer and bringing it home on a ZIP disc so we could watch it together. It was a whopping 25 MB!
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delta79
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Ah. Janet. The fastest Internet i used for about 20 years.
I remember installing a dedicated data cable from the database processors computer to the top level switch when gig network cards came out. Only 3 computers where gig. The other 2 were the File server and primary domain controller.
Everything else was 10/100.
I remember installing a dedicated data cable from the database processors computer to the top level switch when gig network cards came out. Only 3 computers where gig. The other 2 were the File server and primary domain controller.
Everything else was 10/100.