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What we're watching now...Continuing
The thread 'what are you watching now' was locked due to it's size and the thread continuing it by the moderator, was amalgamated and also locked.❓ to access the old thread which is now read only Original What are you watching now thread So this is a new thread with a slightly different Tittle.... Continuing.... Planet X appears to be hidden behind the Sun in our Solar System What Made Spartans So Much Better At Fighting INSANE AI Video Generator you can use NOW! I Got Early Access to Suno's New AI Tool - Here's what I Did With It! Udio's New Feature is a Gamechanger for AI Music
Fibre optic cable damaged by a grabber truck
My brother has a strange incident happen. He is in the middle of renovating his property, and on Christmas day, he received a very irate message from his neighbour saying that a grab truck had cut his internet. My brother called community fibre on behalf of the neighbour and they could see there was a fault with the line, and they would get someone out to fix it ASAP. Question is, in this situation, anything on the outside of the ONT is the responsibility of the ISP? I note virgin done charge for faults where a line has been cut by a mower etc. If this is fixed at no fee for the neighbour then my brother will just send a small gift as a gesture of good will, otherwise he will reimburse the neighbour and deduct it from the builder. What does the group think?Solar storms causing problems!
There's been a lot of solar activity (winds, storms, sunspot activity, solar flares, northern/southern lights and CME's) recently and this has been causing problems. The last week of February was affected by erratic download speeds varying from a 98% drop in speeds to around a 10% drop. Upload speed was more or less normal. The USA was hit particularly hard as several websites went down, along with DNS servers. The odd thing was that other wi-fi devices were fine and connected to the internet as usual. My wired machine, however did not. On Friday 1st March I performed a speed test and the download speed is where I'd expect it to be. Another odd thing was that I was able to ping websites successfully, but I could not access them through browsers. NASA are reporting that a lot more activity is coming Earth's way on the 9th. Lets see what happens. I also post the occasional video about this here: https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Community-Natter/What-are-you-watching-now/td-p/2914384 More reading: solar flares and geomagnetic storms - Search (bing.com)I am leaving Virgin
It is a shame , but I will be leaving Virgin in the New Year. After 4 years with Virgin, their renewal offer was more expensive than moving to Vodafone. AND Vodafone are offering 500Mbps rather than 125Mbps. Virgin once again offer better deals to new customers than retaining an existing customer.New Forum..theme and design comments
What do you think Now we've lost a lot of facilities that used to be in previous Themes Post editing facility, gone Signatures, gone Users on line, gone Page thread view count, gone Page numbering, gone Video thumbs need cookie acceptance printed over the top of the thumb now Text messages showing in one column about one third of width of page on my screen Ability to view newest posts first in a long thread or to go to the latest post quickly, gone So far this is what I've noticed . Is this an improvement or not? Buffer6
Gmail in Outlook not working
I recently moved over to Virgin Media from Sky. I use Outlook on a Macbook to check multiple email addresses including Hotmail and Gmail accounts. Since moving to Virgin Media, I am unable to send and receive using the Gmail accounts. Historically the mail server settings have been Googles (imap.gmail.com, Incoming 993, Outgoing 465). These have worked regardless of how I am connected to the internet. All of the various Google authentications have been clicked, checked and all worked fine. The only change is my home internet now being Virgin Media. If I connect to a different network or Hotspot to my phone, it all works fine. I read some support info about using imap.virginmedia.com but surely this won't work when I'm on a network that isn't Virgin. How do I fix this? Help!!Six year old PC upgrade
My PC was long over due an upgrade, hadn't even changed the thermal paste every two years as you're supposed to, so it must have slowed down or run hotter over time. I was running a Asus crosshair VII Hero Motherboard with an AMD 2700x 8 core 16 thread CPU and 16GB of 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM I seen on Amazon that the AMD 5950x 16 core 32 threads CPU was on offer for under £300, so decided to upgrade along with 64GB of CL16 DDR4 3200Mhz RAM (CL16 works out OK as it is a multiple of the base clock) It now runs over 3800 Mhz with peaks up to 4500 Mhz, I have a Corsair AIO watercooler so that does the job, TEMPS not exceeding 72c on test with all 32 threads running flat out. I originally included a 850W gold PSU in my build, to allow for upgrades later and had some Artic thermal paste from a previous PC The Upgrade cost £406, so that will have to do for another lot of years. It's amazing how fast the PC now runs. Sticking with Windows 10 for now
