Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[Rockingit]

Goooooooood morning viet... I mean forum!

How the hell are you all?

Price surging oasis tickets, whaaaat? No thanks. That needs making illegal! Cheeky sods trying to compare themselves to hotels and uber; Difference being they tell you the price before you're in the queue.

Rain is here today in Newcastle-under-Lyme!

How's weather where you are?

I've worked with both of them, they're both ****'s of the highest order. Save your money.

 

[littlespark]

Saved myself a load of money by watching their 1990’s Wembley concert that was in sky tv at the weekend.

 

[Rockingit]

This morning's delight is wrangling the best broadband and multiple mobiles deal I can find... Vodafone are so far showing promise

 

[Dan]

Are the BT lines that 90% of them use alright in your street? As that gives you loads of scope then.

I use virginmedia for work and sky for the general house devices and cameras and that does lag a lot. VM is mint though.

 

[littlespark]

BT for home broadband 150Mb/s

Voxi (vodaphone) for mobile service . (Free calls, texts and 45Gb data)

I think there’s a referral programme if someone uses my voxi link.

 

[Rockingit]

Are the BT lines that 90% of them use alright in your street? As that gives you loads of scope then.

I use virginmedia for work and sky for the general house devices and cameras and that does lag a lot. VM is mint though.

We're out in the sticks and only have FTC anyway, so it's kind of irrelevant. We see about 7/38 on a good day. But Sky who we're with at the moment just don't seem to have the DNS capabilities in their home routers for more than about 15 devices - as we're 30+ and constantly upstreaming camera's it's just never been that great at all!

 

[littlespark]

You can cut down a lot of the connected devices list surely?

I went into ours and knocked off a daughters ex boyfriend, a couple of their friends… phones we don’t have anymore…..

In fact, with that daughter in korea now, I can take off her phone and her laptop

 

[Rockingit]

You can cut down a lot of the connected devices list surely?

I went into ours and knocked off a daughters ex boyfriend, a couple of their friends… phones we don’t have anymore…..

In fact, with that daughter in korea now, I can take off her phone and her laptop

That's not what I meant. I'm talking about active devices which form a part of the current DHCP and routing table. It's an increasing problem in high tech households - I've just turned my head around and counted 7 from my chair, all currently talking in some form or other to the outside world. A rough total is something like 28 with just me in the house - even the washing machine is on wifi!!

 

[Dan]

We are way too connected aren't we!

You need run all the house admin on its own router there maybe.

As for the provider consider the fact the equipment will change with a new one so may not work as well with so many devices. But get the best price in writing and go to your existing one and haggle. Always worth giving a go.

 

[Rockingit]

We are way too connected aren't we!

You need run all the house admin on its own router there maybe.

As for the provider consider the fact the equipment will change with a new one so may not work as well with so many devices. But get the best price in writing and go to your existing one and haggle. Always worth giving a go.

This is part of the problem. Sky doesn't talk well to anything other than it's own cheap modem/routers. I'm more than happy to spend a (sensible) amount of dosh on a commercial level system and basically have two networks running on different subnets but the bottle-neck will always be the final last-mile out to the ISP. FTP would solve this in a heartbeat as I could just go and buy a fibre modem of my choice and a decent router, alas...

I've already got two AP's running and a total of five wifi LAN's on different IP ranges, but it's the same master DHCP server in the sky box...

 

[littlespark]

I thought the router actively looking for certain devices that are no longer in range would slow it down… (maybe not a lot, but every little bit helps?)

I’m going to go through mine again tonight. I forgot about her Nintendo switch and her old phone that she drowned in a nightclub toilet. They can be removed.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Looking through the above posts it seems to be children that slow the Wifi/Tech down.

 

[James]

This is part of the problem. Sky doesn't talk well to anything other than it's own cheap modem/routers. I'm more than happy to spend a (sensible) amount of dosh on a commercial level system and basically have two networks running on different subnets but the bottle-neck will always be the final last-mile out to the ISP. FTP would solve this in a heartbeat as I could just go and buy a fibre modem of my choice and a decent router, alas...

I've already got two AP's running and a total of five wifi LAN's on different IP ranges, but it's the same master DHCP server in the sky box...

I used to have similar issues, until I bought one of these

Dream Machine Pro - Ubiquiti Store

10G Cloud Gateway with 100+ UniFi device / 1,000+ client support and 3.5 Gbps IPS routing.

uk.store.ui.com

and 5 of these

Access Point U6 Lite - Ubiquiti Store

Compact, ceiling-mounted WiFi 6 AP with 4 spatial streams ideal for smaller offices.

uk.store.ui.com

you keep the sky router and turn off its wifi, connect a cable from router to Wan port on unifi and you are good to go.

 

[Rockingit]

I used to have similar issues, until I bought one of these

Dream Machine Pro - Ubiquiti Store

10G Cloud Gateway with 100+ UniFi device / 1,000+ client support and 3.5 Gbps IPS routing.

uk.store.ui.com

and 5 of these

Access Point U6 Lite - Ubiquiti Store

Compact, ceiling-mounted WiFi 6 AP with 4 spatial streams ideal for smaller offices.

uk.store.ui.com

you keep the sky router and turn off its wifi, connect a cable from router to Wan port on unifi and you are good to go.

Ha! I was looking at exactly that same Ubiquity combination earlier and emailed a local distributor for further advice. However, does the Sky box still not want to act as DHCP server and be a bottleneck?

 

[pirate]

Good morning all!
Just back from doing an airport run and can't decide whether to go back to bed or stay up. I've been awake since 1am anyway and I have a job on later this morning. I'll probably stay up and make breakfast which is scrambled eggs and smoked salmon and a glass of Cava...got to start the day off properly!