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And steals all your data, worse still, it may confuse BuildHub with another, much more popular Hub. I still wonder why we need ISPs, why not a large mesh network that is decentralised. Most of us live close to another house, and then you can put relays in phones and vehicles. For to be better than the system we have, eventually. Seems crazy to me that they are launching thousands of satellites just so I can get access to my email.

Does that allow you to connect to other BT customers WiFi when you are out and about?

What do you actually mean by this. Do you want a reliable connection, a fast connection, or one that can be used to download lots of data. You can have any combination, except the first one. You can also check out the local exchange to see what you can actually get as a maximum. My neighbour pays for a 20MB line, be we can only get 5MB. Keep telling him, but he thinks he is on a good deal. I use my mobile phone for all my internet stuff, except when I steal my neighbours. There are times when it is a bit slow, but generally better than when I was hard wired. I say hard wired, actually they swung about so much in the wind, that it was not unusual to loose connection 50 or 60 times a day. As they use the OpenReach stuff, they had the same problems, old creaking infrastructure and even older, more creaking technicians. I found the pricing good. Much better than my neighbours on Sky. If you have a problem with TalkTalk, they tell you to pull the junction box apart and disconnect your phone. Pillocks.

My boss was a government inspector on the EU fishing fleet. The first boats he saw that took H&S seriously were the Spanish ones. There was an incident down here a few weeks ago, fisherman fell off back of boat, caught his own net. Luckily the boat hit the harbour wall at Newlyn. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/28/fisherman-clings-boat-autopilot-five-miles-falling-overboard/ Not so lucky: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-16984521

My living room is really a corridor between the kitchen and the stairs. Light switched set up for entry via front door, car parking is at the back. Bosch washing machine bleeps, says it can be turned off, never managed to do it. Airtight terraced houses have a problem when neighbours slam their back doors. The whole house shakes, even when the door slammer (have moved now) are two doors away. Noisy plumbing, just can't seem to find out why. Bloody windy and very wet. Good things, cheap as chips to heat, close to A30, so can get places easily, 2 miles from beach, mile from the woods (not many trees in Cornwall), in Cornwall.

I have not read all this thread, and my suggestion is never popular with plumbers. Have you looked into installing a small VENTED cylinder. You may get away with having 2 kW element in it. And you can do a lot of the work yourself. And no certification on the water side. I have a 200 lt E7 cylinder, way to big really. Could get away with half the volume, even running it at 50°C. Could get more storage if I ran it hotter (when guests come). I have a pumped shower, flow rate is about 11 lt/min. No one has ever complained and a few have commented how good it is.

Pay on a credit card, the bank takes the risk then.

That's interesting, never thought about it. Probably no more than 3.68 kW or 16A. But I suspect smaller. But they are not off-grid or islanding systems.

If I set up a hotspot, offered a registration via email, I wonder how many people would set up a password that is the same as the email one.

I was thinking: "Got noisy kids, go elswhere" If that is too many letter, I can change the 'elsewhere' to away. If that is still too many, maybe "F_Off"

All dodging the floods. 18.25°C at 31/07/2019 14:44

It is interesting this group of mixed devices connecting. I got for a coffee and steal the internet. Usually my Android Phone and Kindle connect just fine. Now the summer is here, but even when cafe is quiet, it takes a while to connect both the devices. As an aside, I am thinking of changing my phones hotspot name. It is a rather boring one at the moment. Not sure if I should just give it a rude name, humours name, or a rant. Is there a word limit?

Can use Bluetooth to swap files too.

Thought you were going to say you have an urge to punch them.

Would be a MicroSoft conspiracy, Linux people are to disorganised to organise one. Don't Apple throttle the Wi-Fi to save battery life. Without, initially, letting on to their fiercely loyal, educated, rich, unbiased users.

Carrying on from what @scottishjohn has said. Many large renewable projects were installed a decade ago for a limited life on a site. There is a good chance that life will be extended. Even without replacement, some of these sites will produce very cheap power. Large scale storage is now about £10/MWh. If you add in the production costs of say £30/MWh, then you are getting reliable power at 4p/kWh wholesale. That is about as cheap as it gets.

You don't need much moisture to ruin the layup. I once spilled a few drops of tea in the mat cutting bench. Next person did not notice as they used it, long story short, a ruined moulding. But I managed to repair the damage. Would have been quicker to remake it though.

Would be a MicroSoft conspiracy, Linux people are to disorganised to organise one.

That may not report correctly if there is a problem with all the Apples. Borrow an Android and see if that behaves the same. This may help in clearing up the IP table: https://community.bt.com/t5/Home-setup-Wi-Fi-network/Removing-Wireless-Device/td-p/1703717

Too right. And I know you know a lot more about it that most. If you try to lay up onto something wet, it stops the exothermic reaction dead. It just does not cure where it is damp. I can see why the British boat building industry was so bad at one stage when nonsense like this is talked about as fact.

Ongoing maintenance. I used to design, supply and fit spa baths, small swimming pools, saunas, plunge pools, steamrooms and sunbeds. Pulled out of the domestic market, customers just had no idea what was involved in owning them. Find a local hotel, or better still, a decent council run pool, pay your £5 and enjoy it all.

I really am not sure. Maybe some with a better understanding of network hardware can give a definitive answer. There may be a way to clear the table, try googling the problem, there may be an answer.

The router may still be expecting more. I only have practical experience of setting up networks, but I think some routers have a table in them that fixes IP address when a device connects. They don't always delete the information when the device is disconnected. So each time the router cycles though the devices list, it is also checking for devices that are not there. It may also send out extra information to double check. So a bit like the postman wanting get a signature for a delivery, finding no one in, knocks again, and maybe a third time, before walking away, then coming back the next day and doing the same. I may be talking bollocks here, but that is how it was explained to me once.

It is similar to ordinary paint drying, it gets rid of any volatile. Not really necessary for general purpose polyesters though, they are designed to cure properly at a much lower temperature.

5 devices, I think that is the problem.