Random Irritations

[Robster59]

I have absolutely no idea what a Mesh system is…🤔

This link may help to explain it. It's made a massive difference to the speed and stability of the Wi-Fi in our house.
https://www.tp-link.com/us/mesh-wifi/

 

[Rooter]

I've had mine

We had the Sky Q put in at the end of May this year. The engineer didn't know how to sort it and left us with a booster to try to improve the signal. That didn't work. I tried to use the Sky Q mesh system without the TP Link, but that was giving pretty slow and inconsistent speeds, so I did a search online and found exactly what you said. It's a known issue. But I did eventually find the solution that worked for me.

• Go into the Sky hub on your browser (http://192.168.0.1/) and disable the 2.4 and 5.0GHZ WiFi in your router (untick the Enable Wi-Fi box).
• Connect the main hub via cable to your router.
• I usually keep the same name and password as on the router.
• Go into engineer mode on your Sky Q box
  • Press the ‘Home’ button on your remote control.
  • Scroll down to ‘Settings’ and DO NOT press select.
  • Press ‘001’.
  • Press ‘Select’
  • Goto network and switch off both bands and confirm before exit.
• I then connected each of my Deco satellite nodes directly to the Sky Q box via cable.

Not the most elegant solution as you can't connect the Sky Q box wirelessly to the internet, but it worked for me.

OK cheers, so its hardwired, I'm out.. So I'm right! they don't play nicely!! the BT ones connect to the Q boxes wirelessly, so in hindsight I would have bought them. My solution works well! Its just complex to setup!

 

[Rooter]

This link may help to explain it. It's made a massive difference to the speed and stability of the Wi-Fi in our house.
https://www.tp-link.com/us/mesh-wifi/

Yes, and ability to cope with so many devices. I think the ISP standard boxes are pretty junk for running a wireless network!

 

[DaveR]

Having my desk stolen. I can understand why they didn't think anything of it since I'm only in twice a week. But they could have been nicer about it - I arrive today and someone is sat my desk using my monitor, my charger etc, and I get pointed to another desk with a huge knot of leads sitting upon it for me to untangle. Thanks a lot.

There is probably a guy going into your office 3 days a week complaining on a forum somewhere that his desk gets stolen 2 days a week

 

[Rooter]

There is probably a guy going into your office 3 days a week complaining on a forum somewhere that his desk gets stolen 2 days a week

And some door knob untangles his leads!

 

[GB72]

Insurance companies again. Been with Aviva for years. more fool me. Their quote this year was nearly £1000.00 a year more than Direct Line for a 2 car multi car policy.

 

[Blue in Munich]

There is probably a guy going into your office 3 days a week complaining on a forum somewhere that his desk gets stolen 2 days a week

And some door knob untangles his leads!

 

[upsidedown]

How much is it now?
£1 in the honesty box at our place

£1.50 a mug or pot of tea for one

 

[Robster59]

OK cheers, so its hardwired, I'm out.. So I'm right! they don't play nicely!! the BT ones connect to the Q boxes wirelessly, so in hindsight I would have bought them. My solution works well! Its just complex to setup!

Hardwired from the node to the Sky box. All the nodes connect together wirelessly. I bought the Deco before I got Sky Q, so I had to come up with the workaround which works fine for me, just using the Ethernet ports on the hubs.

 

[Rooter]

Hardwired from the node to the Sky box. All the nodes connect together wirelessly. I bought the Deco before I got Sky Q, so I had to come up with the workaround which works fine for me, just using the Ethernet ports on the hubs.

So if you do chose to move one, you can run the Q's wirelessly. You just need to switch back on the sky SSID (Then hide it) and have the Q boxes connect to the sky Router/Network. all of your other traffic stays on the deco mesh. It works well for me

 

[Swinglowandslow]

So if you do chose to move one, you can run the Q's wirelessly. You just need to switch back on the sky SSID (Then hide it) and have the Q boxes connect to the sky Router/Network. all of your other traffic stays on the deco mesh. It works well for me

Since when have we stopped using English on this forum?😂😂😂

 

[Rooter]

Since when have we stopped using English on this forum?😂😂😂

Sorry Dad. is that you???

 

[williamalex1]

Insurance companies again. Been with Aviva for years. more fool me. Their quote this year was nearly £1000.00 a year more than Direct Line for a 2 car multi car policy.

Coincidently I was just about to post my irritation about Direct Line. I spent ages yesterday filling in their online car insurance quote questionnaire. Only to get a message saying " oops sorry we have a problem, but your details will be saved for 24 hours ".
So I called the help line, the guy apologised saying their system was down but should be back on 2.30ish and don't worry all your details will be saved for 24 hours.
I tried online again today to retrieve my quote using my account details but no joy .
So I phone again today, only to be asked to give all my details AGAIN .
I explained that I had already filled in all the details twice online and had been previously their customer 2 years ago, so all my details should be on the system and nothing has changed except for being a year older.

Finally I had to give all my details AGAIN over the phone.
Quote comes back £91 dearer than LV=.

 

[patricks148]

Guitar and bass magazine going to online only..

 

[Swinglowandslow]

Sorry Dad. is that you???

Yes, how did you guess? 😂
It's ironic that I admire tremendously something I haven't now got much idea about- I.e up to date technology.
Some years ago I built my own computer, but now I have been well and truly overtaken!
So, watch out, young 'un, it'll happen to you😀

 

[Blue in Munich]

Comrade Neville getting on his high horse again.

 

[fundy]

Comrade Neville getting on his high horse again.

what bs is he spouting this time?

was disappointed not to see him interviewedon ITVs FA Cup coverage when non-league Chesterfield went through to the 3rd round yesterday

 

[Blue in Munich]

what bs is he spouting this time?

was disappointed not to see him interviewedon ITVs FA Cup coverage when non-league Chesterfield went through to the 3rd round yesterday

Distribution of wealth to even the playing field. As was pointed out, why should the better commercially run clubs subsidise the poorly run ones?

 

[Slab]

Drivers that change lanes multiple times in heavy slow moving traffic to 'jump' a couple of places in the queue each time

 

[ColchesterFC]

Distribution of wealth to even the playing field. As was pointed out, why should the better commercially run clubs subsidise the poorly run ones?

Is he just talking about football clubs or can I expect him and his former football colleagues to be sending me a cheque to redistribute some of their wealth?