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Whilst walking the dog, I occasionally meet a lady whom I took to be in her late 70s at least. “Have you had your Covid jab yet?” says I. “Good God no”, says she. “I’m only 64”.

He’s still quite bitter about the whole thing.

Thats because the Lego model will work and be reliable

Not logged on for a bit just seen this , Nice looking car James 👍. I’m always up for a run out as soon as we are allowed out we should be able to muster up a few cars .

Basic connection speed is a good thing, but latency (ping time) is more so once you achieve a certain basic speed (which yours is well above for most needs). You ping times to the speed test site look fine, but when you have issues with services, try pinging them to see how they look, test end-to-end. The speed test is only really testing a fairly limited set of paths & systems, and I suspect ISPs give those sites higher priority. For a bad car analogy, your car can do 200mph on a clear motorway but when you try to get to Lands End via the twisties full of caravans, it goes slower. The internet at large can be the the twisties, the speed test site is the motorway destination. Then you have a whole other set of variables you have no control over like how much capacity does the service you are using have. It's finite of course, and things like Zoom are going to be hugely busy right now. I've no idea how they manage their system nor how it works, but when the client reports "unstable internet" it can mean pretty much anything, but probably that it is having trouble connecting with the host site, but that probably has nothing at all to do with your setup or anything you can do anything about. A common tool used by bad actors to mess with internet services is a DOS - denial of service attack. Basically they swamp a service with requests to the point it becomes unusable. As a client of that service, the symptom from your end would look like a problem with the internet connection...until you check somewhere else and find all is well with your connection.

I also have a load of autoglym stuff. I won it from Caterham. I don’t use it because I never wash the car. Sincerely, Caterham drift champion 2008

Just booked in for the full day at combe for my first track day in the WF. Any one from the south want to join Covid permitting?

Thought we could use this to keep track of who’s going where? March 8th Cadwell (MSV) Cadwell March 8th 1. @Rush Motorsport March 11th Blyton (Franks secret track day club) 1. @AdamR March 25th Snetterton (MSV) Snetterton 25th march 1. @Rush Motorsport 2. @Mole March 25th Cadwell (Javelin) 1. @DanDB 2. @Trevturtle 3. @Snowy Steve March 27th Castle Combe (CC) 1. @Hadz July 9th Blyton (WSCC) FRIDAY 9th July 2021 WSCC Blyton Trackday 1. @DanDB 2. @Gary Taylor - Scotland AO 3. @Andy Banks July 12th Croft (Track Obsession) Croft 12th July 1. @Gary Taylor - Scotland AO November 17th Donington (MOT) 1. @Rush Motorsport

She's finally here. Taken her out for a quick run but my god it's cold, she looks great and sounds even better. Not given her the full beans yet. What's everyone's favourite valeting/detail products?

Ignore my message - I have just read the rest of the thread ! 😁

I admit I’m deeply cynical. Giving speed test sites a bit of a hand would deal with a very large number of issues folk have. Internet slow. Visit speed test site of choice, get a decent result, conclude it must just be something else and not the ISP, don’t bother the ISP, then, as these things often do, normal service is resumed as the bottleneck de jour clears. Just a bit of headology rather than outright flimflam. Just a feeling, no evidence.

Next time a Starbucks dude (or dudette ) asks for my name, I'm saying space cowboy... or Luke Skywalker... or Darth Vader. Lets see what they write on the cup. But I'm betting they've heard it all before... unless they're new to the Barista field...

Ah, such wounds to the ego never heal!

And with regards to speed tests etc, I find that whole thing a bit odd. Customer does a speed test and the results are "slow", or at least slower than customer expectation. Customer phones ISP and says so. ISP says we don't trust the speed test sites to be accurate or they won't accept them as "evidence", and puts the customer through a whole battery of tests. Most of the time these tests don't really do very much other than waste time in the hope that the "fault" clears itself in the mean-time. And yet there is the raised possibility that the ISP's are prioritising these speed test sites. Personally I doubt that very much. If they were prioritising them then surely they would be giving a better speed than if they weren't. If this was the case and a customer reports a "slow" speed then it really should be accepted as slow because if a prioritised site is slow, the rest of it could be even slower... Then there is another process that rarely gets mentioned. Over and above the speed tests and the speeds that we are told our devices can achieve, there is something called TCP windowing. I won't bore you with the technicals. Suffice to say this can impact "internet speed" as well and unless one is monitoring the actual live traffic with Wireshark, TCP windowing goes completely un-noticed yet it can have an effect on the user experience. Then there are the error messages like Chris mentions. Remember they are "simply" a piece of text written into the machne probramming that when a particualr set of circumstances is met, the error is displayed. But they are generally not to be trusted. However most folks, being non-technical, panic and start doing all the usual things which is not their fault, but frustrating when "we" turn up to fault find only to find it's an issue waaaaay outside of our control. I really could (and have...) ramble on for hours. I used to teach networking a long time ago... Been a field engineer for the last 11 years though so I see customers with these problems every day.

Bandwidth is like comparing a 10 lane Yankee freeway with a narrow uk single track back lane

Phew. I thought it was just me 😄 *Runs to Autotrader*

I’m at Melton Mowbray, count me in! Maybe @Weekend Warrior might join in too

November 3rd, 2020 Spend: £12,000 Whilst on holiday in France, with very little to do, I started to reflect on life and really missed having a V8 in it. So a plan hatched; sell the Westfield, and buy a Seight! I present to you: Barney I'd spotted him on Ebay, but the auction disappeared before I sold my car. On the off-chance it wasn't sold, I messaged the seller. And as luck would have it, the original buyer had pulled out. So I agreed to meet up today and with the help of @kenton made a deal.