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So far, Zen it is.
However because it's Openreach it's capped at 115 up. I do a lot of uploading (work in video). City Fibre is a few streets over. Ride out Virgin until CF is in for 900 up? Or just get out fast and change in 18 months.
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for just the good customer service.
ok, I mean that will be a wonderful and refreshing change. Going to do a tiny bit more research but headed there at this rate.
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Thing is, all of that sounds like effort. I really want a solid plug and play experience. I've got no brain for troubleshooting stuff any more. Attaching storage is definitely interesting though. But I'd want it to be fast so not sure usb is the one? Am presuming it's usb2.
I'd be interested to see if I could hook it into Blackmagic cloud...
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Potentially - unless you have to generate one specifically. They're on the short list but want to do some more checks into stuff like user experience/portals/logging in etc/troubleshooting/ping etc.
Logging into virgin (see also Vodafone) is such a chore and I wonder if anyone does it better.
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eero mesh any good? TalkTalk are offering an eero pro 6 router free with their fiber 900 package for 25 quid a month for 6 months.
This is in comparison to zen at 70 quid per month for allegedly the same speeds who offer a "FRITZ!Box 7530 AX Wifi 6 Router"
I'd like a complete system anyway, so if eero is any good then perhaps it makes sense to start with their router. Though looking online it looks an 'old' one so maybe get whatever ISP and pick up the TP link ones everyone was on about a few weeks ago.
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IT'S HERE! IT'S FUCKING HERE! My street has fiber and as soon as I choose an ISP virgin are fucking TOAST
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I'd probably try contacting a hire company. Whenever I visit them they have trays of old stuff they never get around to fixing. Specifically I've seen some at Origin Cine in Bristol not so long ago, but in London try Shoot Blue, One Stop, Genesis, maybe Grip Van.
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I had a good run.
Saw a Virgin van in the street the other day and came home to have speeds of around 50mbps down over ethernet (from the 350mbps I'm paying £70-something a month for).
Now it's back to the tried and tested 1.02mbps down.
I've signed up for updates from just about everyone from Openreach to gigawhatsit to cityfibre etc. Openreach still promising (by March). We'll see.
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could only be improved if slightly sloping so they fell forward always. Maybe a spring.
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Don't underestimate him.
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I just watched it again and the casually tossed ferrero rocher killed me.
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Openreach have just updated from 'Build planned between now and Dec 2026' to 'Build planned between now and Mar-2024'
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Aren't this lot localish to you @dancing james ? (give or take 100 miles)
https://shop.thenewtinsomerset.com/uk/p/1499/crumbly-somerset-butter-fudge
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^This is dream work, team, pat on the back.
Been wondering and doing nothing about this shit for years. -
Galvanised things outliving me.
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How solid are your Hay? How prone to weathering etc - do they need to be covered/need much maintenance? I want metal because I have no intention of looking after wood that's kept outdoors.
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childish scribble
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Yeah it's the whole floor. Sorry, was in the garden typing as I thought of it so wasn't my clearest post.
We're mid terrace against a steep hill. Our side return is at ground floor but at the end leads up a steep flight of steps to a decked area which is currently at two levels - the level closest the house being higher and above the utility room.
Access (apart from the exterior staircase via side return - still waiting for Weird Al do a Bluetones cover) is through a (large tilt turn) window in the office at the back of the house. The window aperture starts at knee height and is an awkward climb through. I'd like to be able to have floor to ceiling (or near enough) doors in the future.
But I think the only way to achieve this is to lower the height of the decking which means lowering the height of the floor in the util room.
Or just move but that's not on the cards any time soon.
The kitchen is already a step above the rest of the house (step up from hallway). The kitchen floor is boarded and there's a cavity/crawl space underneath big enough to crawl around down there. I've never looked what's under the concretey bit but suspect it goes to a slope of some kind and the utility room was a later addition to the house. So it could well be some kind of foundation to stop the hill above us sliding into the house.
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The back of our kitchen leads up some wonky concrete steps to a washing machine room. How would I go about chiseling all of that floor out so it's the same level as the kitchen. My intention for this would be so I could lower the roof of that room which would allow me to lower the decked area above it/outside to eventually have a door leading out to the garden instead of a window that I have to climb through.
How DIY-ish is the first part - I think the lowering of the roof will be beyond me but am trying to cut costs where possible.
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Your neighbours are atypical.
LFGSS
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of fixed gear and single-speed cyclists.
I'm sure I remember putting a postcode in with them and getting "get ready, we're here soon" or words to that effect not so long ago. But now when I do it on their website it just says 'thanks for your interest'. So maybe it was a different site - don't know.
Council roadwork page show the next street over being cityfibred next week and the street at the top of the hill (kind of parallel with ours) this week.