BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Simon - 20:39 03/12/08
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Deleted User Account - 21:10 03/12/08
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Simon - 09:00 04/12/08
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It's one of those shiny black curved things about 6" square, with blue glowy icons in the top right corner.
It's also not mine - it's a neighbour's.
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Deleted User Account - 11:00 04/12/08
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Simon - 11:44 04/12/08
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This one's fresh out of the box with a new BT Broadband package to someone whose never had broadband before.
I was on the point of telling him to send it back as DOA until I happened across a suggestion that changing the channel was suitable magic.
After that, my Mac laptop could see and connect to it fine, steady as a rock. Mind you, his XP laptop with a Belkin cardbus wifi adapter is still having trouble.
"There it is! Oh, no it's gone again. Oh wait, here's a list of 9 other wireless networks apart from the one that's broadcasting from two feet away. Think I'll crash now (C-A-D). Hi, ooh ooh, there it is. Ah now, sorry, it's gone again."
This isn't just shite wrapped up in crap and topped with a frosting of vomit, this is *MS* shite wrapped up in crap and topped with a frosting of vomit.
While I'm ranting :-) I love the new MS "I'm a PC!" adverts.
"I'm a human being, not a human thinking or a human doing... a human being".
Yeah, right, you're not doing anything useful, you're not thinking anything useful, you're just being frustrated at every turn.
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Bruce Ure - 11:55 04/12/08
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FWIW my experience of WiFi on windows has (also) been that it is incredibly patchy. Sometimes changing the router (or whatever it is) fixes it, sometimes the card/adapter (or more usually card type), sometimes the whole damn computer (which generally changes the card type anyway...).
I sympathise. Bloody nightmare.
Must look out for them ads... I just don't watch telly any more [real-time -- I use uknova and thebox.bz as well as iPlayer etc though]. Actually, the ads are on youtube, prolly.
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Deleted User Account - 12:09 04/12/08
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Simon - 12:12 04/12/08
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2003 AD design
2003 AD was a design classic, not quite on a par with 1964 AD but still it had its moments...
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Deleted User Account - 12:15 04/12/08
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Bruce Ure - 12:17 04/12/08
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Good luck with the move, if you take it.
I find my work laptop (Intel wifi nic I think... tappity tap.. yes) craps out on a regular basis at home but my macbook, mac pro, mac mini, sony vaio, iPhone, iMac, all behave Wi-Fine, pretty much all of the time. Sheesh. Maybe it is just Intel. I don't think the Apple wifi chipset is intel (tappity tap... yes, looks like they use Broadcom and Atheros).
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Deleted User Account - 12:22 04/12/08
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Bruce Ure - 12:42 04/12/08
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<sad>It always pissed me off that the wiry-haired scientist whose name I forget (Reverend Jim from Taxi... Christopher Lloyd that's it) referred to that figure as "one point twenny-one jiggawatts". For one thing, as any fule kno, it's a hard G not a soft one, but mainly, the 0.21 part of that number is so NOT "twenty-one" anythings.</sad>
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Simon - 12:59 04/12/08
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That's the kind of pedantry we like, keep it up :-)
My own bugbear is lose/loose. On the news last night there were pictures of protesters in India carrying placards saying:
"If you are politician, you are looser"
... which may be true, but it's not quite the same concept.
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Bruce Ure - 13:02 04/12/08
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And DON'T get me started on apostrophe's!
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Simon - 13:44 04/12/08
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How do you feel about flabbergasterisks and stupendapoints?
 Flabbergasterisk and Stupendapoint - punctuation for the emphatic
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simon
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Bruce Ure - 14:04 04/12/08
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Eeeeuw! lol.
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Dominic Search - 00:39 14/12/08
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Simon - 09:59 14/12/08
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Excellent. I shall use that a lot :-)
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Deleted User Account - 13:02 04/12/08
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Re: BTHomeHub intermittent wireless
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Simon - 12:10 04/12/08
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The ad's also on Facebook, along with an "I'm a PC" group, which I've just poked with a smelly stick :-)
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