Is this also available in English? I tried following the guidance, but got stuck at the stack height should it be 35 or 37mm? Does the convex plate get installed dish facing in or outwards?
A lot of problems with lines are down to LLU, Local Loop Unbundling as it is known. You can read about it here in greater detail but in short it's not always Sky or Virgin's fault but BT who will own or have control over part of a line. What is local loop unbundling (LLU)? I use Sky for both TV and Broadband and don't have a problem. I do have Sky extra room for one other Sky box but the rest of my rooms have a distribution system which allows me to watch Sky in any other room in the house that is wired up to the system, the only drawback is that every room will have the same channel on at the same time. A magic eye and a remote is all that you need to operate the system once it is cabled up. It costs about £30 to set up a distribution system plus the cost of each magic eye and a remote. However as mentioned above you can only watch the same thing on every TV, so it's no good if everyone in the house wants to watch different channels at the same time. To add to the system I also have 2 media players one of which has 500GB of storage. This serves to hold a number of films which I download and keep on the large storage player. I also use a Roku box for Netflix and for NowTV. The Roku box is also linked to my computer system and that allows me to wirelessly stream films\TV series etc to 3 TV's that have the boxes fitted to them, this then allows a degree of flexibilty and makes the watching of the same channel on Sky less of a problem. I use TVersity or Plex media server on the Roku to do this, basic downloads of both these are available on line if you want to test them out using a Roku box, Chromecast is also catered for if you have one. I use EZcast which is cheaper to purchase My next stage is to use a NAS (Network Attached Server) server which will then become the centre hub for TV and films and that way I can download or watch anything I have stored on it by dialing it up on a LAN network and then streaming direct to my TV or a Smartphone, tablet or Iphone. So there are alternatives and a NAS server system can be setup for under £100 if you want just a small system. You may possibly want to consider these alternatives depending on what you watch. I have many US TV series already downloaded that will in some cases not ever be seen in the UK or are lagging way behind UK showting times.
Although Im in IT for a job - Ive not messed with anything BT orientated for quite a while but the last time I did BT did a pretty hopeless job or Protecting their routers as they were using rebadged Netgear's: Back up the config which dumps a file to the desktop (or your choosing) and then edit with notepad and the username and password is in the config file. Brilliant, then you can pull that and use your own router...not sure if its the same still but I cant check as ive not got BT and don't know anyone that does at the moment... Has anyone established that you can or cant use your own router on current services?? ie replace the homehub?
I have replaced the homehub in the past, not sure on the latest homehub5 as that's being delivered this week (fibre gets activated Friday). FW has apparently fixed the HomeHub5's flaws and it's now a top rated provider piece of equipment. The only issues I have ever had with providers and using my own routers is that Sky write it into the contract that you must use their routers (which allows them back door diagnostic access). I just kept the sky one in the cupboard for when they wanted to provide support on the line. If you really want to just use the providers equipment as a modem only, PM me for setup help.
Ah - so the adsl based routers offer the same functionality as the Virgin routers? understandably the virgin router has the modem built into it (ie coax cable plugging in) - they didn't have to offer the modem option but they do - which is good - that's really good if BT offer the same option...
One of the lads at work sent me a text saying "reconfigured the BT router..." and then sent an MMS of the router on the lawn in the back garden with a pickaxe through it...I think he'd had enough at that point...
New BT Hub has a built in VDSL modem for the Fibre. If they don't allow a modem only option, just go from router A (providers) LAN port, to WAN on router B (your better router). Set the DHCP on router A to reserve the same IP for the Router B. That way you can port forward or DMZ everything so inbound traffic all goes straight to Router B. You can then port forward on Router B to your chosen internal equipment. I have mine going to my NAS and server so I can start and monitor my movie downloads whilst out and about.
Yep - I can see that...(not had to do anything like that myself) a bit of a faff for someone who doesn't know how to do it though...I tend to leave my server on all the time and remote into that from my phone to kick off downloads and the like...
Double the router though means double the firewall [emoji6] Confusing to say the least when someone penetrates a router and thinks they have LAN access only to find one piece of equipment connected (the 2nd router). They then have no environment in which to really penetrate the second as they are stuck in limbo on a crappy router with terminal that only has basic commands.
True but on the scale of hacking the average user isn't going to be on the radar for hacking and, you might not think it but the isp's do police a little bit as me and my mate were running a port scan from my machine and within an hour got an email from the isp's security department essentially saying "we know what youre up to...cut it out..." However at work we ran an encrypted ftp server (it was a backup box so not important), disabled the root account (debian build) and set the logging off and virtually all the attacks (failed login attempts) were coming out of china...and from our traces - more often than not - universities...
I would argue that port scanning itself is perfectly legitimate and none of their business. You could just happen to be pen testing someone you know with their permission. I myself have port scanned when i've forgotten the work ports I should be connecting to. Like you say, most are chancers or bots that see an open port and go for it. They wont be interested in home users, however when home users run servers and things then they may be a more lucrative target.
Very true....ill confess that im not in networking (so im pretty rusty with the finer points of it but can fudge my way through if I need to) I tend to be more server/mailserver support (we have a dedicated network team)....getting off topic now...damo...whatchyadoin....he probably fell asleep ages ago...
I'd go for 35, to give less preload, so a lighter pull at the lever. As you can only tell which is the concave side by finding the tiny dot, who cares? I put mine in the correct orientation but remain to be convinced it makes the slightest difference
Ive been with Virgin now for 12 years ive got 100mb large TV package and landline im now paying 51.90 month. My mistress :tonguewink: has just got sky and already its been dropping out got only 8.5 mb max Middle pack pack inc films and is paying 75 month .... in fact im ringing them tonight to say im cancelling it because there to costly see were that gets me ... So in summery id go with Virgin had very minimal problems over the years with the fibre cable ...:smile:
Here's a screenshot of my wireless speed. I'm paying just under £40pm for broadband 200mbps and phone unlimited. Don't require a tv package due to kodi on the smart tv for all latest films. Rainierland and showbox too. Mobdro has all the sky tv sports films plus everything else. Just use a chromecast
Had them. Virgin was fine, throttling is an issue. BT also fine, actually is unlimited. BT customer service is crap, off-shore script reciters. We're rural now so its BT copper for us, no choice. Sky are fine. No experience of Sky broadband, it runs on BT copper here so went to the horses mouth. You'll get a million and one yeah's and neighs for both. Make your choice.
