* Posts by Pigpen

4 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Feb 2011

Revealed: GCHQ's beyond top secret Middle Eastern internet spy base

Pigpen

Who will publish BOFH now that El Reg is about to have 'an accident'?

BT to fibre up another 163 exchanges, coy on exactly where

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My response from BT today:

"The exchange seems to be enabled, however it appears the cabinet in the street is in need of further upgrading. These upgrades look to be completed by the middle of next year."

Genius

GiffGaff mobile network goes titsup for 3 weeks

Pigpen

Been there, done that

I went to GG last September and while they are certainly cheap, £10pm for what I was doing, the data network was flaky at best. I moved back to Three recently.

D-Link Boxee Box DSM-380 media streamer

Pigpen

I like my Boxee

I've used one of these for a couple of months now and have no complaints other than the lack of a back-lit remote. Runs silently and picks up all my videos from my Synology NAS without issue.

I rarely use if for online content to be honest but the times I have wanted to use iPlayer on it it's performed superbly.