I was reading through posts on thinkbroadband‘s forum yesterday and came across a post which mentioned that Speedtest.net has a CLI! I don’t know why, but I’d never realised there was a CLI for Speedtest.net. I then went onto Docker Hub to see if anyone had already created an image …
This weekend, I set about trying to get IPv6 working on my home network. It wasn’t necessary but given I’d received a /56 network prefix from my ISP (Aquiss) and it wasn’t completely straight forward to setup, I was on a mission to get it working! 5 hours later and …
Back in 2017, the Connected Counties (Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire) team announced that the small village I live in was going to get an upgrade from ADSL to FTTP. At the time I was less than impressed about the reasons we were going to get such an upgrade* but I’m not …
In January I bought a Chromecast so that friends and family could cast videos onto the main living room TV. It’s a handy little device and when idle it displays lovely background images of nature, space and various other things. I don’t know why, but I never considered where it …
Last year I cancelled my ADSL connection and went 4G only on my EE 64GB contract. It’s been an interesting three months, so I thought I’d post this info in case anyone else was considering going 4G only. Background to why I went 4G only In August 2017, I noticed …
Back in 2014, I posted that I’d bought a 4G router having reached the point with my home broadband where it would go no faster…! https://blog.v-s-f.co.uk/2014/10/fed-up-of-waiting-for-superfast-broadband/ I’ve used eight 6GB EE sims since I bought the router, but those sims were costing too much and I’d stopped buying them after …
I’ve previously posted about how slow my ADSL connection is (5Mbps max!) and that I bought a 4G router just over a year ago (https://blog.v-s-f.co.uk/2014/10/fed-up-of-waiting-for-superfast-broadband/). Before I bought the 4G router, I decided to look at how to load balance the connections. There were two reasons for doing so. One …
Back in 2013, I blogged about losing faith in BDUK after Hertfordshire published the upgrade map of exchanges for the project that would end in 2015 (now end of 2016/beginning of 2017!). Last month Connected Counties who are running the upgrade for Herts and Bucks published a new map showing …
I am… It seems to me the original goal of the rural broadband initiative has been lost along the way. My local broadband initiative group (Superfast for Herts/Connected Counties) upgrades cabinets in local towns which already have fast broadband available as it gives them the numbers required to hit targets, …
Yesterday I lost my faith in BDUK and the entire process for superfast broadband. Hertfordshire published a map of roughly where they would be focusing on upgrading to superfast broadband and despite a demand of over 200 in my little area, they have left us out*. What is interesting is …
This is really for my use more than anyone else. We had a case a few months ago now where we lost telephone connectivity for over a day. Having this service set up to ping my router every few minutes helped me to see that the problem wasn’t just internal …
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