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Great days racing today at Aintree sprint with Chris , Derek and Gary , weather was fab thanks John.

Good turn out and great run too. And it didn't rain. Split into two groups leaving Vyrnwy due to yours truly's best navigating efforts. Fortunately met up again in Bala.

OK, had to wait for Boots to process them! All credit to the various charities and especially Bucks County Council for a great free show for 10,000 at Wycombe Air Park. Not often the local Council gets praise but free unlimited bottled water was impressive.

Here's mine out on a trip to a classic car meet in Bicester. And one from the Complete Kit Car photo shoot.

Today at my local classic car show, Cars At The Spa, in beautiful sunshine.

As Chris says, Powerline extenders are where it's at. https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-WPA4220KIT-Powerline-Broadband-Configuration-UK/dp/B01LXOZ4EN/ref=sr_1_3?crid=Q44TNV5JZQOL&keywords=powerline+wifi+extender&qid=1561889185&s=gateway&sprefix=powerline%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-3 Plug the small one in next to your broadband router and connect it to the router with the supplied CAT5 patch cable. Plug the big one in to the garage and it will broadcast wifi. The plugs will use your 240 volt electrical cables in the house as "pseudo" ethernet cables. They work well. The item above uses only the 2.4Ghz frequency. If you are using modern phones or PC's you will want a device that uses the 5.0Ghz frequency so this fits the bill: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-WPA4220KIT-Powerline-Broadband-Configuration-UK/dp/B0723C86CX/ref=sr_1_3?crid=Q44TNV5JZQOL&keywords=powerline%2Bwifi%2Bextender&qid=1561889185&s=gateway&sprefix=powerline%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-3&th=1 With regards to speed, you'll never see 300Mb/s on 2.4Ghz wifi. It's a VERY long and slightly complicated set of reasons. Basically ignore the headline speed on the sales blurb for both 2.4 and 5.0Ghz frequencies. It's only attainable in very specific circumstances to do with channel width and number of antennas on both the device and the wireless access point. If you have "fibre internet" at home with speeds anywhere between 20 and 70Mb/s then you should be able to match this over the wireless on both 2.4 and 5.0Ghz frequencies. Finally both those say "plug and play" and they are BUT if you take a moment to set up the wifi plug to match the rest of your wifi (IE set the same SSID and password on the plug) then it will work seamlessly when you move into and out of the garage.

@AdamR top marks for this thread it’s closer to a lot more of us than we think 😎

@IanK (Bagpuss) Has been disgraced! Run him over, never again....

Hi Guys, Just bought my Westie this week from Andrew at Toybox,my question is, are there any other Westie owners in and around Snowdonia, I'm based close to Caernarfon on the A4085, would love to meet up with any others local to me for a brew and a run into the mountains.

Cracking run out to Lake Vyrnwy today, we got a bit split up but all got back together somehow, something to do with a red car taking the wrong road, (again)

Count me in for the tuition please.

802.11ac is the latest wifi standard and includes things like MIMO. Most modern devices will prefer the 5.0Ghz frequency which promises more throughput (speed) at the expense of range, but in a house range is mostly moot unless the house is very large. MIMO is only really worth it if the host device (phone/tablet/pc) has more than one antenna for it's wifi or there are several wifi devices in the home and communicating with the hub at the same time. Then MIMO has a benefit. 802.11n is backwards compatible with AC so don't get too bogged down in the standards alphabet soup! I have no idea if the Sky Q hub router (a hub is not the same thing as a router technically speaking). Google it...

7pm tonight for the none Patreons

Maybe have a read through these....

In the early days...

Been out since 7.30am 😃 but had to give up as there's a wiggle on and thousands of bikes not giving way and riding five aside and 400yrd long 🙄

Feeding my Grandson...... and trying to understand just how he knows how to manipulate me.... just 3 weeks old and a master at his craft.

It's also not too shabby at Ynyslas... Gary

Nice. I'm starting a new job in Fareham next week, so will have to join you guys sometime.👍

Hello All, I'm waiting for confirmed locations and special price for the WSCC club.

Well for the second time in a fortnight we have the drunken T@"Ts running down the road and up and over every car and we now have two damaged cars from last nights. So help required c£300 ish for a decent CCTV system that can record for a decent period of time say 28 days the re write over. 2-4 cameras not really a fan of paying a subscription so stand alone system if possible. many thanks