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Micro-joys - the little things as an adult that make you happy/ find joy in

Matt N said:
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!
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200mbps is a limit set by the provider for the price you pay. If you've just had FTTP fitted, the maximum (theoretical) speed through that fibre cable is 100 Gbps (100,000 Mbps) which just blows my mind considering where we were just a few years ago. In 2007 when we moved office, before fibre was available, we bonded 6 ADSL connections together and only achieved 1-2 Mbps from that.



GooseOnTheLoose said:
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.
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Was thinking the same thing as I was reading the thread but didn't want to seem pedantic!
 
Slugjc said:
You haven't live unless you have trailed a cable across the house, unplugged the house phone and listened to the broadband jingle. Only for it to not connect
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Or the joy of being mid-download when the phone rings and causes it to disconnect.

I still remember going to Japan in the early 2000s and whilst we were still sitting by desktop computers at home slowly watching an image download line by line, they were all walking around with mobile phones that had 3G internet access, it was like jumping in a time machine!
 
Bucket of water...frozen rock solid in an old metal bucket.
Inverted and removed in the thaw, and surrounded by the last of the outdoor fairy lights...and a nightlight in the middle.

Stunning artwork, might put it up for the Turner Prize.

Undecided over the title, either Hot Ice or Valhalla, but a stunning combination of fire, light and ice...
And still going in the morning!

Better than an old Ford Escort under a big doily.
 
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