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its not entirely impossible. but i would believe that if this was the case that you wouldn't be online at all. and would still put £5 on the phone line being damaged or needing a faceplate to clear up the line. Rob

yes LAN (ethernet) is far better than wireless. to answer your question your speed isn't too bad and your ping is ever so slightly higher than i personally would like if it was my network,but for general surfing the net and watching the odd youtube video,you should be fine. here's a few "shitty ISP's" ive had to deal with in the past Orange,customer service is ok (as the basic tier 1 customer service tech desk are read from "scripts" people with instructions written down on basic home netoworking and ways of solving day to day issue's. their speeds now are dropping back in the market as they do not offer fibre optic broadband and they do clamp down on people downloading "P2P" eg,torrent AOL - i currently use these (as for what i need) as carphone warehouse do not use traffic shaping or throttle their customers for downloading vast ammounts of data (says different in their contracts but we are on unlimited contract but,they never slowed us down during peak times) customer service.. not brilliant as its in india (tier 1 is anyways) again like orange,tier 1 means call center staff reading from paper. carphone warehouse own AOL UK,TALK TALK and TISCALI. the better ISP's seem to be at the minute BT (but expensive) with the 10mb fibre optic broadband and VIRGIN is rated as top best you do get throttled on downloads if you download 24/7 but its not to the extent that you can't surf the net or anything else,it just means your "torrents" download or upload slightly slower than they would at say 3am. customer service - easy going,friendly,with.... UK call centers!! only downside (the occasional drop out,one minute you might be on OSF next minute your not online for a couple of minutes) other than that virgin seem to be the best on the market. the thing is to remember, as people demand more and more from the internet such as watching TV and online gaming and generally sending mass data such as 500gb or more,speeds have to be increased meaning the smaller people on lower speeds get pushed to the back of the cue and eventually find it hard to connect at all forcing you to upgrade your internet service package (bit like if you tried going on dial up now) you won't be able to connect at all. if anyone reading this thread is having problems with their broadband speeds READ ON!! step 1 are you using your "telephone line" ? ( you can find this out by looking at your phone master socket,does it have 1 DSL filter to which you have your phone and modem OR router plugged into it? example : if you have your master socket and the little ADSL filter like above, you can fit a "speed enhancement face plate"!! (i did this and is done in 5 minutes!) step 2 look at your master socket faceplate (the one with just the open fitted to the wall) if you have one that says BT OR T OR unkown that splits in two you can simply buy the BT I PLATE link on how to install the BT I plate http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3838-video-guide-how-to-install-a-bt-i-plate.html DO NOT LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT OPENREACH ALREADY HAVING THE IPLATE FEATURE BUILT IN!!! for those of us (including me) have the OPENREACH type faceplate you need this kind of faceplate http://www.maplin.co.uk/adsl-plug-in-faceplate-filter-384038 no need to fiddle with any wires,simply remove the original screws "gently" sliding off the original 1 socket faceplate and again"gently sliding on the new 2 socket faceplate" and using the screws that come with the new faceplate. to which you can throw away that old DSL filter as its no longer needed. how and what does this do? to put in to car terms you have your phone line come through your wall into the faceplate which has 1 or 2 mircofilters (air filter/s) to which then you would "normally" have your DSL filter plugged in to which again that has yet another microfilter (air filter built in) .. in affect your running 2/3 air filters on 1 carb.. restricting air flow, in this case,affecting your data flow in lay mans terms.. by removing all the "un-needed" filters and only having the one that is built into the new faceplate,your running one K&n air filter which takes out all the noise on the line,clearing it up,making the data more direct! (like the air rushing through the air filter,while still filtering all the nasty stuff with none of the draw backs. i did this when i first moved to where we are now, when we first moved in to our new house we on adsl broadband were getting around 1.2MB/s download with a ping of around 700ms when i fitted the new nte5 faceplate (bought from mapplins the exact same as above) my speed increased on upload and download! from 1.2MB/s to 4.1MB/s with a ping of just 9ms and the noise db from standard faceplate was 237db after the new faceplate was fitted this dropped massively to just 2-3db anyone need any help or info just let me know ( i do work 2pm-10pm) shift but am willing to help anyone when i can Rob

i was like that once but got bitten by the computer modding bug and been the same ever since lol surely theirs some computer gamers and geeks on here with upgraded desktops ? think we should start a thread of "show us your desktops" lol

wouldn't have thought this was down to his isp (unless steve is on fibre optic broadband) as the isp is just giving a connection from a datacentre. if he uses his telephone line for his connection eg ADSL broadband OR ADSL max. then depending on his router or modem reading on his downstream decibel reading (if its high,its the phone line at fault) as this should be around 2db or at highest 7-8db anymore and it will lag like a pig. if its found out to be higher than 7-8db its the phone line at fault. as even if steve did download 24/7 or whatever,his isp wouldn't throttle him to this extent. i have just sent steve a pm offering to help. with those speeds above i would say its a deffinate damaged phone line if he connects with his telephone line. another reason why i say i believe it would be a damaged phone line already are because of his stupidly high ping time of 1-2 minute average web page loading speed. @ vista,your ping isn't bad as it would on average take to load a page of around 40-50 miliseconds to load most web pages. where steve on the other hand would have to wait 1-2 minutes for the same page to load as the speeds that steve has posted are affectively "dial up speed "

erm yeah... your download and upload as far as that goes is well.. kinda poor to be honest if you think 50k was dial up and your only getting 94k ( the K stands for KB/s) kilobytes per second. your affectively on dial up which your upload is even worse also, trying not to confuse you too much - if you look at your results it says 0.94MB/s - your not even a full megabyte of speed - hence the 94kilobyte speed has your internet web pages been opening slowly recently or before winter? as im thinking if your running broadband via your home telephone line, that maybe the bad weather could have damaged the phone line as your ping is ridiculously high! ping means your trying to send data in this case we shall say your trying to download 34kilobytes of data and it is taking 1.3 minutes to download as their are interuptions and to put it simply "confusion or disruption in your internet or network) an average ping should be anything from 15ms to around 115ms (time taken to respond and open a web page) rather than your currently waiting around 1-2 minutes to open web pages.

you say it takes ages to open pages.. steve click this link and run a speed test (tests your internet speed) http://www.speedtest.net/ click the link above and click "begin test" at the top of the page,this gives you an "estimated download and upload speed" (but is rather accurate) and the ammount of memory you are actually running is very very small indeed try that "low price memory link in the reply above" find out if your computer is DDR2 or just DDR type memory (this can't be interchanged DDR2 will only fit DDR2 type motherboards and visa versa you seriously need to be looking at 2gb for most tasks these days

sorry to double post. you can get dirt cheap "good quality" memory for computers (depending on the type) http://www.lowpricememory.co.uk/ you'd need to know if its "DDR2" and the speed type either 6400 or 8600 also,use lightweight programmes if your speed is crap. download "Ccleaner" (all round FREE cleaning application thats pretty good) defragging,doing this too often can cause damaged sectors on your hard drive, do this once every two months or once every month if your a mass downloader and are constantly exchanging data from hard drive to hard drive.. also,try AVG anti virus 2011. dosen't take up much processing power at all and works well. for the serial for the full product.. (PM me) easiest possible going setup would be having limited things installed on your machine so.. mozilla firefox AVG antivirus windows firewall (believe me it works!) turn any automatic updates "OFF!" as they aren't actually needed and take up a shed load of space and use more processor cycles (uses a lot of the computers recourse's ) as for norton... i don't even rate that.. its full of "False positives" which throws up problems and other rubbish which don't exist. (just a marketing scam believe it or not) and its a big processor hog! my computer is on 24/7 and has been for the past year and half day and night,exchanging data and hosting files and a website from home and help setup computers for friends and family the above about "leightweight" is just having bare minimum in and using programmes OR applications that use very little processing power to perform the tasks. hope this helps fella

Yes !! I have the Norton Virus !! I'll uninstall it and see how we go. Cheers for the info Steve I have bought 2 x 1gb memeroy stick things to replace the 768mb I have now, hopefully that may help a bit too. I understand that if you have a 256 and a 512 memory, it will not use the 256 at all. Is that right? The processor only recognises 256, 512 etc, not 'wrong' sizes like 768? no, if your mixing sized ram sticks like that, it goes on whichever stick has the "LEAST" ammount of clock speed eg,256mb stick may be say" 800mhz speed while say the 512mb stick runs at say "1333mhz" it will only run as fast as the slowest clock speed eg, the 256mb stick as the speed is slower, to put it simply, your playing pass the parcel between you and one other friend,your faster than he is,but he's slower so you have to be just as slow as he is so you can work together.

Hi guys... Well im back to studying my theory test again as i have finally decided... "i must have this car" (not saying what car) (one of duttnut's old ones...) thing is... ive been unemployed for a while and the thing that is kind of worrying me now is that when i have had jobs in the past,i seem to fook them up somehow and can't seem to hold a job down... I really want to feel alive again (like i did when i had the mk1 fiesta in mid 2008 when i was about 16 ) where now everything just seems like an utter farse and i just can't be bothered... i want to feel like i used to do,where i would look at a few jobs when i was 16 and think,right am gunna apply for that and was genuinely happy.. where now i manage around 2 weeks at order picking and either get sacked or begin making stupid arse mistakes and begin think"oh fook it,i can't be fooking arsed with this" but as i say,i need a job for myself esteem again,and as said above... the car in question... which i first looked at (thanks DAVE!) is still the car i wish to buy even now and i looked at that car over 3 years ago (or near enough) what am i doing wrong? other people just seem to turn up to whatever job they have,day in day out (bit like "oh yeah its just work again lol bit like school where you turn up day in day out" anyone help me? Regards Rob

yeah i have this too pro order last week at a brand new shop that just opened im the only one who's pre-ordered it gamertags (add me oldskoolfordrob does it really have the osf's in it??!! hope so! closest thing im gunna get to driving a capri or a mk1 escort for ages Rob

Well... i spoke to my mother about the way im feeling and she said the same thing, i gave me some herbalist tablets "St Johns Wort" as she said that they helped her when she felt the same a few years back. At least i know why i feel this way. Thanks Zetecvan2.0 yeah feeling lethargic, as if ive just eaten a whole xmas dinner i will see if my parents can get registered with a doctor or whatever and see what the doc says Thanks Rob

hi everyone.. id just like to ask something here for the past couple of months ive been feeling rather shitty about myself and am feeling like i really just can't be bothered to do anything (even though in my own mind i know i probably would have done it if i had the energy) i can't seem to sleep at night, ive always gone to bed late, around 11-12pm and then soon as my head hits that pillow. im usually out like a light.. for the past couple of months ive been struggling to get to sleep before 3 and sometimes even 4am.. i try and go to bed at even 10:30pm or 11pm and turn everything off (except the computer as it never bothered me before) and try and get to sleep.. i end up trying to concentrate on clearing my mind (other wise i lay their thinking about whats gone off that day and this ends up widdling away the hours) so.. i lay their trying to clear my head so i can relax and go to sleep.. and find what 20 minutes feels like turns out ive been laying in bed for nearly 3 hours unable to sleep... and then end up getting up just before dinner time.. (which my dad then moans about no matter what when i try telling him,it dosen't seem to hit home with him) i very rarely eat at the right times, due to me getting up late and i generally don't feel like eating in the morning (some days i don't feel like eating anything at all... only shit like, biscuits and other rubbish like mars bars or whatever (no proper warm meals) i always seem to have a bad attitude eg (someone cuts me up on the bike.. i want to rip the drivers head off and kick his head in, whereever i go,their always seems to be some fool doing something to really piss me off..(where as this didn't really bother me too much) i always seem to want people to just leave me alone and just stop talking as i can't be arsed talking back to them as its just a pain in the arse and i can't be bothered.. (even though i do..i just don't go out of my way to talk to someone (again i wasn't like this before a couple of months ago...) i really want to sleep during the day as i had just had a bad night as im still really tired(not normal tiredness as you had just jumped out of bed i mean it feels like ive been out on the piss all night (eyes feeling like their bulgin,furry tongue and loss of apetite..and general feeling of i want to go back to bed.. i can't always be arsed to go and see my mates (even though,before i began feeling this way i used to travel nearly 50 mile round trip just to see them for a few hours (and used to do this 2-3 times per week..) now i feel its just too much of a pain in the arse... i can't be arsed to do things ( i used to enjoy doing) and generally feel like i really want to be left alone,for people to stop talking, i don't want to eat much, have headaches more often than not, i don't want to do what i would normally do as i really can't be arsed.. when ive been working at places in the past,ive usually gotten the sack after a few days usually through lack of enthusiasm.. (again father gives me jip over this) while my mother... dosen't as it was recently taken BACK into consideration that i might still suffer from dispraxia or dysclexia (certainly discalcula..) is their something wrong with me OR is it just down to simple eating diet and learning to cope with life?

yeah that is what were going to do, just find out who exactly owns the property,if he is CRB checked and who allowed him to turn up and take the photo's. and thump him"exactly what i would have done,their and then" to turn round to someone and say"your a thief" when its a picture of "himself".. isn't like saying"well ive taken your photo now, its mine, and in affect stealing your identity and privacy rights?

yeah don't worry i was looking this up last night, it appears that to actually take photo's of minors in a sporting club (RFL) that i know of now, anybody representing the club,or helping the club etc MUST BE CRB checked... we know this camera fella isn't CRB checked.. and their for either the club directors are at fault for letting the camera guy do this or the man with the camera is at fault for going against RFL rules Stated in a legally binding contract here http://www.therfl.co.uk/~therflc/clientdocs/Recording%20Images%20of%20Children.pdf Now Their is another contract which my parents signed (different to the one above) clearly stating "the club can take photo's of your child" in other words,for the club's benefit not the guy in question. this is solved now Thanks guys Rob

Hi folks I would just like to clarify - (this is in no means a dig at camera men or people who take photo's either for personal use or commercial) But here's what the problem is... my younger brother plays rugby for his local club and when he was playing match games. A man (we didn't know) turned up and began taking snaps- and told us about his website. Now - he charges stupid amounts of money for sh*t photo's thing is. me thinking"sod this" - did a print screen and pasted the photo's and saved them. now.. today the man who took the photo's approaches my brother in the clubhouse (club bar) and says"YOU DELETE THOSE PHOTO'S FROM YOUR Retards Club! YOUR A THIEF!!" and then walked away.. now.. unknowingly my dad approaches the guy in question and says politley as you do- and said"hiya id just like to ask if i could buy some of the photo's" to which the guy with the camera says"NO YOUR SON IS A THIEF - IF YOU DON'T KNOW - ASK HIM YOURSELF!" - (in capitals as he was rather abrupt about his business) now.. my arguement to this is.. A) my brother is under 18 but over 13 to have a Retards Club account. yes the photographer has the copyright protected images as he is the one who took the image (fair play) C) he's on either public land OR leased land to the club via the council. Thing is... now here's the arguement. he's taking photo's for his "own" personal and financial gain. with no feedback to the club itself. now in the RFL (Rugby League Football club Rules) it clearly states "The Club recognises the need to ensure the welfare and safety of all young people in Rugby League. As part of our commitment to ensure the safety of young people we will not permit photographs, video or other images of young people to be taken or used without the consent of the parents/carers and the young person." Now.. so here's the argument IF he is on public land,does he have the right to begin taking photo's at free will of under age persons (which the under age persons are playing as a club ) Another factor.. IF he has the rights to take photo's on this persons land - does he still have the rights to take the photo's of minors. ( i know you can walk down the street taking photo's of lusty linda and wally willy (although getting ya camera shuved up your rectum is highly likely to happen) DOES it give him the right still? To add another small point.. don't you think it is rather arrogant and rude and the rest of it, to take photo's of your family and kids and be able to sell them for profit ? without your permission? isn't their any invasion of privacy or human rights.. I really don't have an issue with photographers as i don't mind taking photo's eg - rides out and days out in places etc - but when your parents have put him on this earth,brought him up,clothed,put him on the pitch..for some w*nker to just whip out a camera at his/hers own free will and take photo's and not need prior parent/gaurdian consent and then sell them for his/hers own financial gain... would you agree to this. as i personally was ready to wallop him i must be honest.. Thanks in advance Rob