Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

ukmaggie45

Generali wrote: »

Cripes!

It brings to mind the old joke.

How many people work at Liverpool docks?
About half of them!

Initial reports seemed to say that the bloke was in a solicitor's office... Have to say I could fully understand why one might want to bomb a solicitor! The problems we had with my parents' one over their wills certainly made us feel like going and paint spraying "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" on his office doorway! :rotfl:

ukmaggie45

Just went back to the Echo website (as quoted earlier) to find this:

'Insurance claim confrontation'

Key development possibly.

Sources have told the ECHO that the incident is linked to a confrontation in the offices of boat insurance firm, Groves, John and Westrup.
The ECHO has been told that the alarm was raised after a man entered the firm’s offices in Silkhouse Court in protest at an insurance claim.
This is yet to be confirmed.

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A man has since been arrested. Nobody hurt. Building being checked out.

ivyleaf

I stopped thanking the posts about broadband speeds when it occurred to me that I hadn't a clue what they were on about Don't try to explain though, anyone, it would go straight over my head!

Glad you're feeling so much better Generali (apart from the sore back).

Doozergirl Ouch, sounds horribly like sciatica, unless the pain's down the front of your leg.

OH has just bought some lotto tickets....oh well, as he says, someone has to win. They do tonight, at any rate.

PasturesNew

ivyleaf wrote: »

.... it occurred to me that I hadn't a clue what they were on about....

As you sit at your PC and want to see stuff on the Internet, how fast that arrives at your PC and how fast the pages load will depend (for starters/mostly) on your broadband speed.

This can vary enormously based, mostly on: who you get the service from, what you are paying for (the deal) and your location/other factors.

e.g. my speed is slow(est) because I am using a BT line and it doesn't have the modern superfast internet available at all. This is all hidden stuff to me, the user.... but, in simple terms: The BT phone line box that I am ultimately connected to, that is a big fat box in one of the local roads, simply does not have the modern fibre connection, but old-fashioned copper phone lines.

You can go to the website and click a button "Start Test" and it will place a file on your PC and time it. It will then upload that file back to itself and time it. It will then know how fast the Internet stuff arrives on your PC .... and you get the download/upload speed figures we've all been giving.

The higher the number, the bigger your pen15.
The higher the number, the more stuff you can do, faster, on the Internet (e.g. watching films, Skype calls, etc etc).

In short: My figure of 2.65 is utter rubbish.

I cannot do anything about that unless I change my Internet provider - and, as I know the BT box has old cables in it that means I'd have to buy Sky instead to get it faster. Which I won't as I don't really understand all that stuff.

silvercar

I cannot do anything about that unless I change my Internet provider - and, as I know the BT box has old cables in it that means I'd have to buy Sky instead to get it faster. Which I won't as I don't really understand all that stuff.

Are you in a Virgin area?

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

As you sit at your PC and want to see stuff on the Internet, how fast that arrives at your PC and how fast the pages load will depend (for starters/mostly) on your broadband speed.

This can vary enormously based, mostly on: who you get the service from, what you are paying for (the deal) and your location/other factors.
...

I went to a performance test conference some time back to talk to the nice people at itrinegy. They sell network emulators so that you can test the performance of your systems over public networks at peak and off-peak times.

A big factor people do not consider is the peaky nature of internet traffic. This helps explain why many people don't get the throughput they expect when they sign up.

ivyleaf

PasturesNew wrote: »

As you sit at your PC and want to see stuff on the Internet, how fast that arrives at your PC and how fast the pages load will depend (for starters/mostly) on your broadband speed.

This can vary enormously based, mostly on: who you get the service from, what you are paying for (the deal) and your location/other factors.

e.g. my speed is slow(est) because I am using a BT line and it doesn't have the modern superfast internet available at all. This is all hidden stuff to me, the user.... but, in simple terms: The BT phone line box that I am ultimately connected to, that is a big fat box in one of the local roads, simply does not have the modern fibre connection, but old-fashioned copper phone lines.

You can go to the website and click a button "Start Test" and it will place a file on your PC and time it. It will then upload that file back to itself and time it. It will then know how fast the Internet stuff arrives on your PC .... and you get the download/upload speed figures we've all been giving.

The higher the number, the bigger your pen15.
The higher the number, the more stuff you can do, faster, on the Internet (e.g. watching films, Skype calls, etc etc).

In short: My figure of 2.65 is utter rubbish.

I cannot do anything about that unless I change my Internet provider - and, as I know the BT box has old cables in it that means I'd have to buy Sky instead to get it faster. Which I won't as I don't really understand all that stuff.

Ah, thank you.....I don't know exactly what our broadband speed is, don't need to know exactly, but it's fast as we're only just down the road from the exchange.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

What am I thinking - we have about 10 of the white boxes wating to be ebayed purchased because they come with vouchers that are cheaper per month than the subscription costs (eg Box plus voucher for 2 months movies costs £10, 2 months movies subscription costs £20). PM me the address and I will post one (I seem to remember someone gave me some books at some point so I owe).

Do I understand correctly that these things can be used without subscription to watch free catch up stuff on a TV by connecting to broadband? If so, I will happily take two of them off your hands for whatever price you were going to ebay them for.

hjd wrote: »

My results (when I post link says it's not valid...)
Ping 4 ms
Download speed 37.37 Mbps
Upload speed 8.75 Mbps

It's faster in the morning before the US gets up.
My pc has speeded up considerably since my hard drive was replaced by an SSD.

Ping 14ms
Download speed 49.77 Mbps
Upload speed 18.69 Mbps
That's at 6:30pm, which I assume is pretty much peak time?? I'll try it again in the middle of the night and see what I get then.

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

Do I understand correctly that these things can be used without subscription to watch free catch up stuff on a TV by connecting to broadband?

That's exactly what I'm hoping!

Thanks all for the advice
Re the bluray player - good idea but it is literally just the catch up that's needed.

Michaels: thank you so much for that offer, would be fab (can probably take a couple more off your hands too so will pm you for negotiations ). Either that or sell you some of the entertainment passes next time tesco have their double up offer on

zagubov

Just done the speed test
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4980441960
Virgin keep boosting the speed every few years.