Techie Stuff

I had a BT Smart Hub 2 on a 300mb connection and it was pretty smooth tbh. No complaints other than the monthly fee was getting out of hand. Moved to a Sky Max Hub on a 900mb connection. Just connected it up about 4hrs ago & I've noticed a few differences already and none of them are good. I was on my PC (wired connection)…

I’m getting a kitchen refurb which will involve installing new plug sockets. Is it worth having usb a and/or c plug sockets or are usb sockets in general on the way out ?

When i try and stream Music from youtube music app it works fine on mobile data but as from yesterday it has stopped working on my home wifi. I have tried changing between the two and it just stops on the wifi with a loading circle. My home internet is BT with hub2. I have tried switching the hub off for a few hours to get…

Over the last few days I've had a pop up asking "Block or allow access to other apps on this device" when signing into some banking/financial web sites. This is new to me and I'm not sure what to do. Its been suggested that if I trust the site I should allow it as it could be security related but I'm not sure. Is it…

Firstly, not sure if this is the best forum. Please forgive me if there's a more appropriate one. I'm not a regular contributor. My sister is trying to get third party access to our elderly father's NHS app. She's filled in all the appropriate forms, got his consent etc. The staff at his GP practice say they have done…

Hi All, I need to cancel my sub for CometVPN. You cannot download this onto a firestick which I need. I travel a lot for work and take this with me to use in hotels. It is useful watching UK TV/iplayer etc while abroad when they have no UK TV in general Sadly I have been with them longer than 30 days so they aren't giving…

I recently took out a contract with BT Broadband and immediately noticed a change in Google knowing my location. I have all these things locked down on my devices, I don't have use locations services on any device. I did a number of tests which proved it was the BT Smarthub3, I was able to switch between wifi services on…

my 12 month extension to windows 10 runs out next month and I haven't got the confidence or tech know-how to either use Linux or follow instructions telling me how how to get Windows 11 via Rufus etc. My laptop is my TV and music centre, besides that it's mainly emails and general browsing. So I'm thinking of buying a new…

We have a HP Pavilion desktop PC running Windows 10. The machine is quite powerful and more than capable of upgrade to Windows 11. However virtually everything we do is on Android phone or tablet. Mainly Gmail, web browsing, some word docs and some spreadsheets. I am a bit fed up with Microsoft and all of the constant…

they forgot to charge me for AppleCare. is it just the same to buy AppleCare online!

My mum is nearly 90 and severely visually impaired. She has 2 echo dots - Alexa A Samsung A23 mobile - google assistant? (not enough memory for Bixby) A Samsung TV attached to a BT pro box An Ipad - Siri and a Broadlink RM max I think she should be able to verbally communicate with these devices and they should be able to…

I use copilot a lot, both for a quick question and serious research. For the former, where extended features are not required, I would use the Copilot integrated into Edge, which was the only way to access it without the annoyance of signing in. Microsoft have changed this to requiring sign in. The result is that instead…

I saw this advert on Facebook (ironically) for a device called 'Brick' available from getbrick.com. I liked the premise of it. It cost £50ish for the product but the app is free. I am really bad for doomscrolling after i've gone to bed. The way it'd work is you pick which apps you want to block (Facebook, Instagram etc)…

Firefox in its ultimate wisdom decided to tick the box 'Clear cookies and site data every time you close Firefox' on an update, which I always left unchecked. Now I can't log into Yahoo. I used all the 4 options to get a code but got nothing. BTW I did get a code on phone and pc which I put in but got no response. When I…

Since the fall detection on the Apple Watch SE2 is flipping useless we're looking at other ways to deal with a problem with my mother who keeps going over. Thinking of something like those things you can have round your wrist or whatever & you pull them. Problem is I'm not sure if those things are say to alert someone else…

Hi, I bought a new TV earlier in the year (LG 43" Nano80A6B) and had been thinking of getting a 4k disc player - I currently had an oldish blu ray player which I'm using with the TV. I wondered if anyone knew much about them and if the combination of TV & player would be enough of a jump in quality to justify the cost of…

Reading the thread about third party access to the NHS app made me wonder whether it is possible to have more than one user account on an Android phone. The answer according to google, who ought to know, is that it can be done quite easily. Android is based on UNIX which is multi user, so maybe it’s not too surprising that…

hi just looking at ideas, whether a soundbar is suitable for both music (streamed from phone) and also as the tv speaker (due to poor internal tv speakers) it would be nice to just have one device but i dont want to compromise on the music audio quality, welcome any opinions!

Hi I have being using OpenOffice Writer for ages, but this morning I couldn't open the files. There was no error message. TG yesterday I saved the file on Google Drive and I managed to work on the OneDriveLive. I have no idea how it works. I see that the file gets saved as I work on it. I've seen I can send it to someone's…

What is the best budget video door bell? Do they all operate with wifi.