Sign in / up

* Posts by Roger Anderson

15 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2012

Openreach out and hike prices on legacy fixed-line products: Broadband plumber pulls trigger after Ofcom gives the nod

Roger Anderson

If only it was that easy

I've been fighting to get FTTP for 3 years but for all the government shout about voucher schemes etc etc it's basically impossible for anyone who lives outside a densely popular area to get it. I live 1 mile outside of a reasonably populated Scottish town and FTTP is available there. Me and my neighbours though have been given a quote for £108,000 by Openreacb to install FTTP to 12 houses, and that's after they have discounted any applicable vouchers. £9,000 each....no thanks!

Openreach community funded scheme have stopped replying to me so it's impossible to discuss and of course they have no phone number.

Most of us have gone 4G as the only viable alternative that can accommodate 2x people working from home. It is frustrating as hell that people with 70Mb FTTC are getting prioritised for 1000Mb FTTP when those of use who are too difficult to reach are left on 1 to 4Mb ADSL or doing something else on our own. Why can't FTTP be focussed on the slowest areas first (be that city centre or rural)?

2 0

Intel screams Tiger Lake is 'world's best processor' (then quietly into its sleeve: for thin Windows, ChromeOS laptops)

Roger Anderson
Reply Icon

Re: What's wrong with "times"?

Yes, in the written form. Said out loud though?

9 0
Roger Anderson
Reply Icon

Re: What's wrong with "times"?

I thought I must of misunderstood what he meant the first time. Then he did it again another '3-ex' times. WTF is that all about?

1 1

1Gbps, 4K streaming, buffering a thing of the past – but do Brits really even want full fibre?

Roger Anderson

yes please

I live too far from the cabinet for FTTC and only get up to 5Mb/s where I live. I applied to Openreach for a community funded scheme to upgrade me and the dozen or so houses around me to FTTP. It took well over a year to get a quote and the final estimate was well over £50k to which, understandably, my neighbours said no thanks!

Scottish government has committed to 100% super fast internet by 2021 but somehow I don't see this happening.

2 0

Are you the keymaster? Alternatives in a LogMeIn/LastPass universe

Roger Anderson
Reply Icon

Re: Compromised host tolerance?

LastPass supports 2FA for logging in. Therefore even if your master password became known on a compromised computer, access to your account would still be impossible without your number generator. Unless of course you left auto login enabled but can't imagine anyone would do that on any computer that isn't their own.

4 0

Oi. APPLE fanboi! You with the $10k and pocket on fire! Fancy a WATCH?

Roger Anderson
Reply Icon

Re: Really?

£100/year for insurance? Think you need to shop around more.

£200 for servicing/battery changes every 2 years is only spent by tossers who like to say their watch is serviced by "craftsmen" meanwhile letting the watch company cash in on your stupidity.

A decent independent local jeweller can replace a battery for a few quid and a watch shouldn't need serviced for years and years. Especially if it's Quartz.

I agree that a watch is there to tell me the time rather than act as a fashion statement but I still much prefer wearing my Tag than wearing my Casio (which I wear at work).

5 3

BP: Oil prices crashed, so must our ICT budget

Roger Anderson
Reply Icon

Re: Greed

Damn, just noticed the typo. I "wouldn't" expect the 2015 results to be the same, profits will be lower.

0 0
Roger Anderson
Reply Icon

Re: Greed

They still have billions in liabilities for the GoM disaster so they need to find that cash from somewhere. Up till now it's been paid off by selling parts of the business.

You also require profits to invest in new projects. developing new oil/gas projects can requires 10s of billions in expenditure before you ever see a return.

Lastly, the effect of the oil price drop didn't really show up in Q4 results. I would expect Q1 2015 results to be the same.

If you were told you salary was going to be slashed, would you not alter your spending habits before it happened?

0 0

Apple flings iOS 8.1 at world+dog: Our AMAZEBALLS 9-step installation guide

Roger Anderson
Reply Icon

Re: Meh.

Plug it into iTunes, you only need ~600MB of free space.

4 0

The man from Del Monte, he says... NO! .delmonte gTLD bid crushed, juiced

Roger Anderson
Reply Icon

Re: .icant?

Its going to be totally fucking Mexico!

kudos on getting a Nathan Barley reference in

0 0

Myanmar to open telecoms to foreigners

Roger Anderson
Reply Icon

Re: Burma

Not quite true, it's recognised as Myanmar by a number of countries and the United Nations. The UK does not recognise the name and calls it Burma.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7013943.stm

1 0

Microsoft rolling out Windows Phone 8 update in Europe

Roger Anderson

HTC-8X Updated successfully

Updated completed on my unlocked HTC-8X. Didn't have the rebooting issue so can't comment on that but received the messaging upgrades described in the article. A small but appreciated upgrade to the phone, hope there is more to come.

0 0

Big Blue beats off rivals to push out first LTO-6 tape drive

Roger Anderson
Reply Icon

Re: GB > MB

Martin,

1. The typo hasn't been mentioned when I posted my reply. The curse of doing so at a weekend when it took 24 hours to get the post approved before it went live.

2. I have never used a tape drive, I do however understand how they work. I also understand that it's highly improbable that the transfer rate would reduce by an order of magnitude from one release to another. It was an obvious typo.

3. Look up definition of sarcasm. Will help you understand point 2.

Cheers,

Roger

0 0
Roger Anderson
FAIL

GB > MB

Surely the technology us getting worse. LTO-3 transfer rates were amazing...........

Quote:

LTO-6 - 2.5TB and 160MB/sec

LTO-5 - 1.5TB and 140MB/sec

LTO-4 - 800GB and 120MB/sec

LTO-3 - 400GB and 80GB/sec

0 0