COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

[Steven Chorkley]

I've seemed to notice Openreach around Barlick, near Valley Gardens and up Walmsgate with old vans with rolls of fibre on a trailer... Is this the begining of the FTTC Rollout?

[Pluggy]

Mr Whipp posted to this effect a couple of days back, maybe Barlick is getting FTTC. With the low profile Barlick has had with BT in the past regarding upgrades to broadband, I was expecting it around 2020......

[Steven Chorkley]

Mr Whipp posted to this effect a couple of days back, maybe Barlick is getting FTTC. With the low profile Barlick has had with BT in the past regarding upgrades to broadband, I was expecting it around 2020......

As they are doing this under a government contract aiming to get 99% of Lancashire connected by 2015 I presume they are working much harder to have the infastructure in place before the deadline.

Samknows claims that FTTC will be rolled out by the end of this year and BT's official site claims that it is accepting orders in June

[Pluggy]

I haven't looked at samknows since we got 21CN. I suppose BT have to run the football telly they nicked from Sky to those without Satellite somewhere......

[Stanley]

If they are it will be speed freaks who want the fastest who pay the extra money. My demands on the service don't extend that far.

[David Whipp]

The programme for fast rural broadband shows Barlick being enabled by the end of this financial year (that is, 31st March).

Talking to the Openreach guys installing a second fibre optic route into Rolls-Royce a few months ago, they said the availability to householders from any particular cabinet would depend on whether that house was served by a full board(?) or an extension board(?) with only a few lines on it. According to what they said, it isn't worthwhile enabling a board(?) unless it has a lot of lines on it. Haven't checked out if this is the case.

I thought we should be OK to get it at our house, as it's had a phone line since year dot. However, we got a new number to the one mum and dad had, so our pair may not be on one of the original boards(?).

(Not sure that they said 'boards', but that's the concept that lodged in my noggin, if you get my drift.)

[Wendyf]

It would be nice just to get our own broadband....never mind superfast.

[David Whipp]

It would be nice just to get our own broadband....never mind superfast.

Wendy, you're not far from the big microwave mast; perhaps you could syphon some of that off?

[PanBiker]

If Wendy tapped into the station up on Elslack moor she may get more than she bargained for. "Big Ears" talks to the spooks up at Menwith! Could make for interesting listening though.

[Wendyf]

We tune in to a very kind neighbour's broadband which comes up from Earby. We are right at the end of a line from Colne, which just isn't good enough.

[Steven Chorkley]

I'm with David... with Netflix, Lovefilm, and my nerdiness.... 17mb/s is now rather slow. Especially comparing it to my friends connections 40mb/s+. I cannot wait until it's possible to get 20mb/s upstream.

Thankfully, the only cabinet around me is at the bottom of our road. Haven't seen any roadwork plans to lay another cabinet, or to that matter, actually see where they are going to place it.

On another topic.... How is the stability of the microwave connection at 50mb/s ? That's got to be poor, especially in poorer conditions such as today !

[Sunray10]

Ahh, so is a "board" a cabinet - one of those things with doors on out in the street with all wires inside it and bits and bobs ??

[Stanley]

Don't even ask Ray, the answer might swamp you..... As I'm on my own 16mb is fine for me thank you, I don't download any of the high end video stuff.

[David Whipp]

Ahh, so is a "board" a cabinet - one of those things with doors on out in the street with all wires inside it and bits and bobs ??

The cabinets are the BT boxes on the pavements, which can have several 'boards' (if that's the right term) inside them.

[Stanley]

Those nice people at Canonical have just given me a brand new version of Firefox.... Well done lads! Wonderful service.

[Steven Chorkley]

Good or Bad?

http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/12/mozi ... owser-ads/

[Steven Chorkley]

After talking about BT fitting fibre up the street last week, contractors this morning have started to dig up the road next to our original cabinet. Progress

[David Whipp]

... and there are quite a few new cabinets being installed.

[Whyperion]

OGFB ( and other PHPBB3 )(hacked or is it my computer/firefox ). Had assorted adverts added into the posts yesterday, on OGFB initially - as back at a laptop after a week of still clearing former mother-in-laws inhabitation (we are three suitcases into one bedroom on an upper floor so far - look out on my boot sale table when dry weather comes back for 20 pairs of unused stockings in granny brown and 6 sets of NOS size 8/10 white suspender belts - alas too late for 14 Feb this year ). I thought the ads were from some board changes , but visiting a how to solve the problem forum also on PHP BB the same problem occurred with random new tab to a getitsoftfree website also popping up. I think it may have been something I clicked on from a handy fast downloaded I installed about a year ago which was not ad free and offered additonal 'helpful' programs that normally I decline ) as also had weird google search results which were predominantly ads to stuff unrealated to the query being searched. Rolled back to a fortnight old version of windows, no change, so de-installed a large number of programs today and will see how a firefox re-install goes. Currently using safari with none of those problems (but safari does not like freecycle and yahoo mail running at same time ). Anyway posting this just in case other users had same problems.

[PanBiker]

There is a link referring to this behaviour in a post above.

[Pluggy]

Its your computer, its very common in Windows Land, some cr*ppy software that's installed on your computer. Screwy Google results are the same thing. Getting rid of such stuff is my bread and butter.

People donate money to keep OGFB free of adverts, There are no adverts (other than occasional spam that the mods jump on) on OGFB.

Let me guess, the adverts you're seeing are for dodgy weight loss products and body building suppliments.....

[Whyperion]

Sorry, missed earlier post, One ad did invite me to donate to American Red Cross , so not necessarily all bad , and the weight loss should be needed but the shop in meadowhall bus station was selling past its sell by date 3 packs of cadbury fruit and nut for 60p (must eat the heathly lettuce sandwiches I made before I started wednesdays journey. anyway wrong stuff now gone, but in my haste to clean up I deleted what I think was the main leading problem ( zoom downloader [it alternates accept /decline button location to adware etc and i had clicked on the wrong answer ) which I realise I somewhat needed as windows is giving loads of (?false) positives on this prog contains a virus on some downloads of pdf readers from cnet etc fairly reputational sites ( yes I know there is adware etc ) internet research seems to indicate that windows ( and using IE or safari gives same results ) is not saving the downloads, and somehow automatically checks from installed AV (poss macaffee but I am configuring that to not check on downloads for 60mins ) though its also trying to access windows defender - which I have half missing from my system files as control panel wont let me reconfigure some programs either. I am not too bothered about finding a solution as I have other work arounds but it is annoying that any ideas on the net wont work on my current laptop.
Until I installed adobe reader and flash safari and ff both worked really quickly and I was looking for better and slimmer alternatives to those to speed up my connections and downloading.

[Stanley]

No such problems with Ubuntu 12.04 64bit and a new 70mb worth of OS this morning from those nice people at Canonical.....

[David Whipp]

Are we heading for a catastrophe?

A while ago, I mentioned that one of our smallest cats was lying on top of our wireless router, I wondered if this would affect performance.

Now our largest mog has taken up residence; will the router still perform perfectly?

[Wendyf]

Ahhh, I just love black cats. That face is so much like my long gone Bobby, not so long gone Monty and my very much alive but 3 legged Tinky2. We have had to stop our fluffy black cat Feebie (whose face is completely different) from sleeping on top of the fish tank as the heat was causing her to have small fits.