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Quote: billwill @ January 21 2013, 2:04 AM GMT

Rain & Ice get into any joints in the telephone system that have not been waterproofed properly and that can make your line 'noisy' at phone frequency ranges and at broadband frequency ranges, this means that it has to retransmit packets of data frequently because the prior copy get spoiled. so the net result is that the useful speed of your broadband drops drastically.

Pick up your phone, press one digit to cancel dial tone and listen, if it is noisy, report it to your supplier, usually BT.

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Thanks.
You are already three hundred times more knowledgable than the airhead I just spoke to at BT.
She actually Googled the question I asked her!

Can't wait to head into the cold. Too warm for sleeping here

Quote: reds @ January 21 2013, 1:23 PM GMT

Can't wait to head into the cold. Too warm for sleeping here

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Looks like we're both on the wrong continent. I want it to be summer every single day of the year.

Quote: Gordon Bennett @ January 21 2013, 1:25 PM GMT

Looks like we're both on the wrong continent. I want it to be summer every single day of the year.

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Rekon you would change your mind once you'd experienced our summer. At the moment it is about 22c but feels warmer. It's nearly midnight. Anything above 17c makes for uncomfortable sleeping.

Quote: billwill @ January 21 2013, 2:04 AM GMT

Rain & Ice get into any joints in the telephone system that have not been waterproofed properly and that can make your line 'noisy' at phone frequency ranges and at broadband frequency ranges, this means that it has to retransmit packets of data frequently because the prior copy get spoiled. so the net result is that the useful speed of your broadband drops drastically.

Pick up your phone, press one digit to cancel dial tone and listen, if it is noisy, report it to your supplier, usually BT.

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And while you're there (sorry this should really be in the tech thread)...

Why would some sites download easily (I can surf around Wikepedia no problem)) but Facebook won't download.
And I can browse on Amazon but the payment page won't load?

Quote: billwill @ January 21 2013, 12:12 PM GMT

...the councils can't put much salty sand in bins by the road, because by the time it is needed, it turns out it has all been nicked by people to put on their paths & own drives.

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Nah, I checked with the council, that grit is there FOR us to put on our drives and pavement. We don't nick it, we use it as it is intended to be used.

Quote: billwill @ January 21 2013, 12:12 PM GMT

Here in the UK we get all panicy when the temp drops below 0 deg C, we have very few snow ploughs /...

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What would you prefer, to clear the roads with extra snowploughs, and gain the productivity that way; or save the money on buying the snowplough, and have the day off work? The latter, for me.

Quote: zooo @ January 20 2013, 11:48 AM GMT

Teehee, broadbean.

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Quote: Lazzard @ January 21 2013, 1:47 PM GMT

And while you're there (sorry this should really be in the tech thread)...

Why would some sites download easily (I can surf around Wikepedia no problem)) but Facebook won't download.
And I can browse on Amazon but the payment page won't load?

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I think that all you are seeing there is that some sites are designed to be low quantities of data, text is far less bulky than pictures and some sites are a morass of pictures and adverts and moving images all of which are far more bulky than text and are often pulled from many different internet locations, so it is slooooooow. It becomes more obvious to you when your link slows down.

Each time your browser has to fetch something from a different location it has to first do the equivalent of calling Directory Enquiries to find out where that server is. This is called a DNS request and though it only takes milliseconds to do a search on the internet (as opposed to tens of seconds when you call directory enquiries), when you get a whole bunch of different ones the search and fetch times add up to a noticeable delay.

Quote: billwill @ January 21 2013, 6:38 PM GMT

I think that all you are seeing there is that some sites are designed to be low quantities of data, text is far less bulky than pictures and some sites are a morass of pictures and adverts and moving images all of which are far more bulky than text and are often pulled from many different internet locations, so it is slooooooow. It becomes more obvious to you when your link slows down.

Each time your browser has to fetch something from a different location it has to first do the equivalent of calling Directory Enquiries to find out where that server is. This is called a DNS request and though it only takes milliseconds to do a search on the internet (as opposed to tens of seconds when you call directory enquiries), when you get a whole bunch of different ones the search and fetch times add up to a noticeable delay.

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Ta bill.
i shall have to just wait 'till it fixes itself - the normal course of events!

Snooooooooooooow!

The life and death of my snowman.

R.I.P.

(I never noticed that bump on his head before.)

Get stuffed, winter!

My fiancé wanted to give him a hat using a tiny plant pot. Not sure why.