The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

antrobus

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just, forlornly, tested my BB speed.

1.66Mbps download
0.35Mbps upload.

!!!!!!?

I've got 49Mbps and 18Mbps.

But then I have fibre. My son insists on it.:)

antrobus

PasturesNew wrote: »

That breaks Rule 1.

Rule 1: If it works, do NOT fiddle.... you WILL break it and will have no idea how/why or how to recover.



Breaking Rule 1 leads to Outcome 1.

Outcome 1: You will cry ... for hours ... and feel very very sad for at least a week.... and have flashbacks to your sadness for months/years.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

zagubov

I used to have the fastest internet speed on the NP thread a few years back but we grew weary of the high cost, sneakily upwardly creeping price and intolerable frequent internet blackouts.

I'm stuck with a very much cheaper, very much slower, slightly more reliable service but I daren't test my internet speed now or I might not be able to keep convincing myself I'm better off

vivatifosi

In your shoes Pastures, I'd buy a really cheap tablet and see how you get on with it. Android is easy to use once you get the hang of it, and if you really like it but like me find typing a bit slow, you can get a wireless keyboard.

Not true Android, but you can pick up an entry level 7" Fire tablet for £50. My tablet, which I use all the time as it's easier than firing up my laptop, is a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1", normally in the low to mid £200s, I got mine for £125 In the Argos sale.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

In your shoes Pastures, I'd buy a really cheap tablet and see how you get on with it. Android is easy to use once you get the hang of it, and if you really like it but like me find typing a bit slow, you can get a wireless keyboard.

Not true Android, but you can pick up an entry level 7" Fire tablet for £50. My tablet, which I use all the time as it's easier than firing up my laptop, is a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1", normally in the low to mid £200s, I got mine for £125 In the Argos sale.

I've never seen a tablet, not really sure what that's all about. All I've ever known/used is a desktop PC and a laptop. XP Home.

I don't know what they can/can't do....

I NEED a keyboard, I hammer stuff out all day 24/7 at 100+ wpm. I am a typist by history and training... I don't even look at the keyboard ever.... in fact my keyboard's almost bald of letters etc. I don't need to know which key is which, I "just know".

I am not "typing" here, I'm watching the telly. I watch the telly for minutes without looking at my screen even... I'm just typing, typing typing. I don't want something I have to look at.

vivatifosi

I am a bit slower than you, about 94 wpm, but I also touch type. That's why I think you need a keyboard. But if I wanted to, I could pretty much run my business from my tablet.

I use mine for surfing the net, MS Office, watching TV, telephoning people I know, listening to music, reading books and magazines online... there's tons you can do.

As you know I also like genealogy. There's a magazine I like on Genealogy, "Who Do You Think You are" which would cost a fortune to buy each month, but I download mine free of charge from my local library website, flip my tablet round to portrait orientation and read it on that.

GDB2222

antrobus wrote: »

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

But it is clearly very, very broken.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I am a bit slower than you, about 94 wpm, but I also touch type. That's why I think you need a keyboard. But if I wanted to, I could pretty much run my business from my tablet.

I use mine for surfing the net, MS Office, watching TV, telephoning people I know, listening to music, reading books and magazines online... there's tons you can do.

As you know I also like genealogy. There's a magazine I like on Genealogy, "Who Do You Think You are" which would cost a fortune to buy each month, but I download mine free of charge from my local library website, flip my tablet round to portrait orientation and read it on that.

Can you have lots of tabs open at the same time and lots of files?

e.g. 3-4 browser tabs and 2 notepad and 2 excel files and Paint?

I am not very good at reading documents online to be honest, I don't get on with it... magazines and PDFs are quite hard for my brain to process for some strange reason. It's like I can't follow them easily, for more than a few lines at a time. I can't absorb information from them.

I could manage a genealogy magazine if there was one bit of it I was interested in .... but I'd not do much reading of such things online. I like to have PDF files, so I can load them up to search for specific stuff.... eg. if there were, say, a parish register and I loaded up a PDF and searched to see if there were any instances of a name... but I see PDFs more as "handier/better to search through than using a proper book would be"

vivatifosi

I just closed my tabs, but had seventeen open. I guess it's all down to PCs getting faster and miniaturization. You can have a computer in your pocket in your phone, which is great but a bit on the small side, but this is somewhere between the two.

The main difference between my laptop and my tablet is that I've installed quite a few apps on it that I find interesting. That and it runs on Android, not Windows. ETA.. My tablet also has less RAM (2Gb) and a smaller storage (16Gb but expandable).
ETA no 2. You can read PDFs on a tablet without any problems, I find it easier due to the ability to flip the screen around. However I will say this works much better on a 10 inch tab than a 7 inch one due to the size.

chris_m

antrobus wrote: »

!!!!!!?

I've got 49Mbps and 18Mbps.

But then I have fibre. My son insists on it.:)

Following this cabinet change I'm currently on 40Mb/2Mb - that's fibre to about 200yds away and copper the rest of the way.
It used to be fibre, then copper for the last mile or so and the download speed varied between 8Mb and (on a good day) 12Mb.

I'm certainly not complaining at this change. Hopefully it'll be more reliable too, previously it dropped out at the slightest sniff of an electrical storm, so less copper in the circuit "should" reduce the sensitivity to interference.