Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

@Jiffy where do you live? There are a lot of members who don't state where they live.

 

@Jiffy we had regular power cuts in Belgium and then we realised they occurred mostly in thunderstorms with lots of localised lightning which, presumably, affected the local substation relaying power to us and the village along the road.

The leccy people eventually realised too and came and tweaked it to be more robust.

We are not quite as isolated here and don't get as many storms but we do get occasional power cuts. They usually only last a few seconds but that's enough to send Bonzo hiding under the furniture - frightened of electrical noises - and means we have to reset the clocks on the ovens and one of them is a pain.

 

We just get all the left over elecy that no one else wants
We did get fiber broadband here but it took them 6 years to do 2miles of ducting, they even started at one end of the lane then moved to the other end and they miss the bit in the middle and very expenive and don't work very well BT copper is better so far even if we only get 2mps

 

The clocks are one thing, but it could reek havoc on at IT connected. We too often had cuts, but these were not too frequent, but often much longer, lots around us had generators.

 

@DiggersJo all of that stuff is plugged in via multi-plug extensions with circuit breakers to protect them from power cuts and surges.

 

Our road is getting narrower and it wouldn't be long before lorrys will not get down here unless they sort out a problem
The broadband is under groud but when then put it in they only dug down 6 inchies and with all the heavy vehicles driving off road the fibre get squash and also the ditches are not dug and ever where is water log and goes into the joints of the fibre even the cabnets have been hit by heavy vehicles + tractors with a hedge trimers so we have no change of anything good because someone will smash it but would say or report the problem they just leave it and then when some one does ring up about a problem and they come and close the road hey moan they can't get through it's a no win job

 

In towns and bigger villages France has buried the fibre optic cables but we are in a small hamlet with country lanes so they've strung it above ground along the leccy and phone line poles. Since being connected, line speeds are better but not impressively so and we get micro cuts - lots of wee messages saying my PC has gone offline but then it usually reconnects itself before I have time to Refresh as requested.

 

I think when you consider what an internet connection does its pretty impressive, all those people accessing different things all the time and streaming.
I dont know how it works but I would have thought it unbelievable 30 yrs ago.

 

Well David Nixon never managed it.

 

Worrying for probably a few of us here is that we were using the internet 30 years ago...

 

Not sure why that is worrying?
Personally I wasn't, and it wasn't what it is now when I started 20 yrs ago.

 

It's worrying because those years went by so quick!
Oddly a lot of people then said it would never take off.

 

What did they call it? The Information Super Highway?