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15,931 · January 27

2 minutes ago, PhilA said:

Nice. GPON or XGS?

Internet

How would I find out? 😂

23,291 · January 27

12 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Internet

How would I find out? 😂

Well.. if they let you buy 2Gbps or more up/down then it's XGS.

They just went nerdy with the naming, using the Roman numeral X for "ten" so XGS, Ten Gigabit Symmetrical.

The other way is with a laser meter and see what color of light is coming your way. A spectral peak at 1590nm is XGS. Or you can just ask the installing engineer.

More likely is they're rolling that out in the city and you're getting the old hardware installed in the sticks. It's good for the environment, recycling.

Phil

TL;DR:- Don't worry about it, it'll be better than what you had...!

15,931 · January 27

18 minutes ago, PhilA said:

Well.. if they let you buy 2Gbps or more up/down then it's XGS.

They just went nerdy with the naming, using the Roman numeral X for "ten" so XGS, Ten Gigabit Symmetrical.

The other way is with a laser meter and see what color of light is coming your way. A spectral peak at 1590nm is XGS. Or you can just ask the installing engineer.

More likely is they're rolling that out in the city and you're getting the old hardware installed in the sticks. It's good for the environment, recycling.

Phil

TL;DR:- Don't worry about it, it'll be better than what you had...!

It’ll be the shit one. The package says Fibre 500 on my account.

This is Norfolk, I imagine some of my neighbours are still on dial up and fax machines.

3,980 · January 27

I live in Norfolk.

What's internet?? 😁

11,538 · January 27

1 minute ago, JJ0063 said:

It’ll be the shit one. The package says Fibre 500 on my account.

This is Norfolk, I imagine some of my neighbours are still on dial up and fax machines.

We're on copper to the cabinet - 10 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. Near neighbours can get 45/8 as they have overhead fibre to the boundary then copper. The guy right next to the fibre mini-cabinet has the luxury of 80/20.

On a 4G Sim router I can almost get that 80/20 so we flicked off the landline around 2019 until such time as the Information Superhighway reached us. Funnily enough, still waiting. (Did I mention there are no dual carriageways in this county? :-) )

(This is not a problem in itself but if the streaming services etc keep upping their bandwidth/stop sending 720K stuff then we'll be in the old Digital Poverty world that I keep telling students about)

23,291 · January 27

We serve some very rural areas. There's a lot of new fiber going in, and anything as of the middle of last year is ten gig. No more GPON going in.

This project has been teetering on the edge and put on hold far too much, big government scheme.

14,601 · January 27

Thought id splash out some parts for the Honduras as they looked like been on there for a while

41,321 · January 27

7 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Thought id splash out some parts for the Honduras as they looked like been on there for a while

There is a good chance those bits are far worse quality than what is on there and have the large possibility of causing running issues.

Generally with Honda's, those sort of bits are good for the life of the vehicle and don't break.

7,788 · January 27

Nice little result on this ex-nun Corsa I picked up last week:

Couple of advisories for 6+ year old tires but a clean bill of health for 15 months. If I didn’t buy it they were going to ring the scrapman!

15,449 · January 27

32 minutes ago, The Vicar said:

Nice little result on this ex-nun Corsa I picked up last week:

Couple of advisories for 6+ year old tires but a clean bill of health for 15 months. If I didn’t buy it they were going to ring the scrapman!

They are pretty durable, especially the 1.2 version. The 1.0, not so much.

A friend of mine had a 1996 1.2 in black which got sideswiped onto the top of an Armco barrier in the middle of Cork, by a BMW that had had a blowout. The four people inside escaped any very serious injuries.

36,332 · January 27

No subframes in a B so as long as the front suspension mounts are OK, plus the rear spring seats, you're good. Mine rotted everywhere but I got it fixed up.

The 1 litre on mine eventually cut out on me after months of unsolved misfire issues. It tapped when it restarted so I ragged fuck out of it on purpose. I got a replacement engine from a grass track racer for fifty quid and it lasted another 7 years. 4 banger 1.2 definitely the one to go for.

3,593 · January 27

12 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Number of US-style ‘battering ram’ pickup trucks on UK roads has nearly doubled in a decade

Usual 'news' story.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/us-style-pickup-trucks-uk-roads-up-data-shows

What a lot of rubbish. I thought for a second this was about UK imports of American spec Dodge Rams, Chevrolet Silverados etc, but it’s just about perfectly normal UK market ones. Usual eco warrior press release guff, which will only get reported by the Guardian and maybe that scruffy git on the BBC. Amusing to note that the market stats about the ‘most popular’ include two that haven’t been available new for quite a while, the Navara and the L200. Rust will do its bit for road safety by eating its way into Navara chassis!

I assume the BIK changes will reduce the popularity of the double-cab ones, but then, if these will have the exemption from the ZEV mandate out to 2035 in the way vans will, they will stay popular.

22,670 · January 27

7 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

What a lot of rubbish. I thought for a second this was about US imports of Dodge Rams, Chevrolet Silverados etc, but it’s just about perfectly normal UK market ones.

I assume the BIK changes will reduce the popularity of the double-cab ones, but then, if these will have the exemption from the ZEV mandate out to 2035 in the way vans will, they will stay popular.

And given the state of current road surfaces and that a lot of pick-ups are actually used as pick-ups by trades and farmers etc it is not surprising they are about.

I'm not sure how Guardian writers expect the world to function - they will still want someone to come round and re-roof their house in a pick-up 😂

But hey-ho. I post these news items for information and to inform on what's apparently important to some.

3,593 · January 27

You read the Guardian so we don’t have to - it’s a public service!

*I lie, I look at it most days. It’s still just about free to use and despite the obvious bias, much better than the BBC website, which is frankly shit. Half their ‘news’ is about the comings and goings on their own bloody programmes!

15,449 · January 27

14 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

I'm not sure how Guardian writers expect the world to function - they will still want someone to come round and re-roof their house in a pick-up 😂

They are usually humanities graduates, so any knowledge of how anything practical in the world works would be purely fortuitous. In any case, anything liked by actual working people is something to be sneered at, in their minds.

The Mums for Lungs lady sounds like a total bed wetter in the throes of a moral panic. A 2.5 litre pickup doesn't cause any extra emissions over any equivalent vehicle. Maybe it would be a good idea if mothers taught their children not to stand or run out in front of motor vehicles, which is what my mother taught me

18,254 · January 27

5 minutes ago, artdjones said:

They are usually humanities graduates, so any knowledge of how anything practical in the world works would be purely fortuitous. In any case, anything liked by actual working people is something to be sneered at, in their minds.

The Mums for Lungs lady sounds like a total bed wetter in the throes of a moral panic. A 2.5 litre pickup doesn't cause any extra emissions over any equivalent vehicle. Maybe it would be a good idea if mothers taught their children not to stand or run out in front of motor vehicles, which is what my mother taught me

I agree with teaching children not to run in the road but I think Tufty got run over by a Dodge Ram in 2017.

15,449 · January 27

7 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

I agree with teaching children not to run in the road but I think Tufty got run over by a Dodge Ram in 2017.

Oh well, he was a bit self righteous anyway.

17,507 · January 27

21 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Oh well, he was a bit self righteous anyway.

Yea, squirrels are like that.

15,931 · January 28

14 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

Finally have full fibre!

Had FTTC round here for donkeys years and being in rural Norfolk, I never thought we’d see the day of actually getting fibre. Had an email in November saying the ducting is now in and we can put an order in.

Morrison data were subbed the job and came out last Thursday and put the ONT in but the lad was a lazy cunt and said he couldn’t get the fibre to the house because his rod wouldn’t fit the ducting (bullshit)

Openreach came out this morning, opened the lid on the path and found the rope that the dig team had kindly already fed (so didn’t need rodding anyway) and fitted the fibre.

gone from 40mb to 450mb so it’s a nice difference for £4 extra on the BT bill!

Aaand it’s gone shit.

Restarted the hub, no change. Googled it and apparently there’s no “settling” period for FTTP?

Same router as before the install, same location etc.

1,917 · January 28

10 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Aaand it’s gone shit.

Restarted the hub, no change. Googled it and apparently there’s no “settling” period for FTTP?

Same router as before the install, same location etc.

Am I missing something?

"Speed to hub 521mb" ?

15,931 · January 28

Just now, jim89 said:

Am I missing something?

"Speed to hub 521mb" ?

Speed to device 48mb

1,917 · January 28

Just now, JJ0063 said:

Speed to device 48mb

🤷🏽‍♂️ Restart device?

15,251 · January 28

Ordered air, oil and cabin filters for the Renault, Hyundai and Kia. Whole lot came to £65 on Autodoc (and not their cheap Ridex parts).

Everything I have found with the Renault is it could be one of three different types. I had the same with the wheel bearing, there’s either an 80, 82 or 83mm OD unit with each requiring it’s own hub!

11,538 · January 28

2 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

Speed to device 48mb

If you're running to the device on WiFi at 2.4 GHz then that's a possible figure depending on the network setup.
Grab a copy of Inssider https://www.metageek.com/products/inssider/

Play around with that to see what sort of stuff is going on with the wireless setup - it's a fussy thing at times (initial thoughts are that you are having cross channel interference from a neighbour - check the router and see if you can manually set it to 1,6 or 11 and see what that does.

If you're on 5 Ghz WiFi then same applies - test the setup and look for cross-channel interference.

If you're on wired LAN then somethings broken :-)

15,931 · January 28

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

If you're running to the device on WiFi at 2.4 GHz then that's a possible figure depending on the network setup.
Grab a copy of Inssider https://www.metageek.com/products/inssider/

Play around with that to see what sort of stuff is going on with the wireless setup - it's a fussy thing at times (initial thoughts are that you are having cross channel interference from a neighbour - check the router and see if you can manually set it to 1,6 or 11 and see what that does.

If you're on 5 Ghz WiFi then same applies - test the setup and look for cross-channel interference.

If you're on wired LAN then somethings broken

Thanks!

I’ve just run it again and it’s now 178mb so I’m not sure whats going on, I’m going to give it a day or two before doing anything to see if it sorts itself out!

Edit: now 400mb, I think it’s probably doing some sort of optimising overnight and I happened to be awake when it was at it shittest.

15,449 · January 28

2 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Ordered air, oil and cabin filters for the Renault, Hyundai and Kia. Whole lot came to £65 on Autodoc (and not their cheap Ridex parts).

Everything I have found with the Renault is it could be one of three different types. I had the same with the wheel bearing, there’s either an 80, 82 or 83mm OD unit with each requiring it’s own hub!

What Renault is it?