Some single frequency devices have issues with some dual band routers when both router frequencies use the same SSID. I was never sure why this happens as a single frequency device shouldn’t see the other Wifi signal. Came across this developing a dual band Broadcom based router for Sky Italia. Neither us nor Broadcom could say why this happened.
@billybutcher just beat me to it.
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Almost always, they don’t have physical buttons (apart from on/off and reset), you change settings by logging in to the admin via a web browser.
You put in an IP address such as 192.168.1.1 in the browser address bar. It then asks you for a password (or username and password) and then you can access all the settings.
If you don’t have the manual for your box you might find its name on a label on its bottom and can then find that online.
Copper is being removed everywhere here and sold on the black market. Nothing is sacred if its got copper in it and level crossings, train signals etc are being hit hard.
In the UK EV charging cables are the target du jour.
I remember during some contract work I did for the roads people at the time the network providers wer rolling out fibre. It went everywhere. Heavy black cable clearly marked every metre as ‘fibre optical cable’ or some such wording. They would lay miles of the stuff in a day and the next morning, it had all gone! The Gypsies (I do not think they were true Gypsies who have more intelligence, but those many refer to with the P word - I dare not say it as my mate Billy will certainly throw me off 
) came out at night and whipped it all away!
I’d love to see their faces when the visited the scrapman the next morning only to be told it was worthless. I was told, but did not believe it, that they then tried to sell the cable back to the networks…
Yes the same here too,nothing is sacred anymore if there is scrap value to be had. SNCF keep having their cables cut and stolen regularly.
I’m half surprised they don’t steal the rails.
Well, the fibre has been installed. It took about 1 hour from start to finish. I’m getting the full 1Gbit download but only half of that upload. Pretty good I think. I also wired a fibre socket from the utilities cabinet to the study a few days ago and it works 100% on that as well. Very quick and painless.
Edit : On my Asus router running OpenVPN to NordVPN I’m getting about 160mbps in both directions which is plenty.
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It’s rare for a domestic service to be symmetric - something I sort-of hoped that at least some ISPs would start to offer as a way of distinguishing themselves in the market.
It never used to matter much that upstream speeds were much lower than downstream - most people did not run servers and those that did probably mostly small volume stuff so that the bulk of the traffic was downstream anyway.
But with more and more people using on-line backup services you would think that there would be a growing market for good upstream bandwidth.
Most of the time ISPs don’t even publish their upstream speeds leaving you to search fine print or forums to get the details.
I’m lucky at home in the UK that I have 500Mbps symmetric - but that is wholly down to a lucky chance of getting TalkTalk via CityFibre.
The guaranteed speed is 72Mb/s - not too shabby but if you have 1TB to back up that’s nearly 28 hours compared with 4 hours at 500Mb/s and 2 hours at 1Gb/s
Possibly but it is very variable.
I have just changed the WiFi “pigtails” in the Dell Mini PC that I used here (an Optiplex 3070 with an i5-9500T CPU).
Why did I do this? Because Dell, in their wisdom, saw fit to put male SMA connectors on the box whereas almost everyone else uses a female connector. The result is that although I have at least a dozen spare Wi-Fi antenna kicking around only one mismatched pair that fits the Dell.
In putting some new antenna in place I see that I get around 200Mbps from the Wi-Fi which I was a bit “meh, that’s not great” about.
So I stood the Dell vertically - which allows both antennae to be vertical (Dell also place the SMA connectors too close together, so that’s not possible wit the box flat). Total distance moved, about six inches. Wi-Fi speed now 450Mbps (measured throughput using iperf3 to another machine on the network, my router tells me the link speed is 650 down/270 up).
So tiny shifts in position/orientation of your Wi-Fi antenna can make a huge difference in the speed you get.
Thanks for your routine but I aint going there. Every other router I’ve ever had - UK and FR - has had a button. Up with a router that don’t got, I will not put.
….and istr the default password and username for this sort of kit is often just ‘admin’ ?? if no manual
I don’t know if it’s tailed off but there used to be a lot of teefin’ of cat converters for the platinum. But oddly, when I put a perfectly good cat converter on eBay - the pipework either side of it had been ripped off in an accident loading the van onto a low loader - I got no bids. None.
Maybe people suspected some sort of tricky biz leading to getting nicked.
It seems to be quite common in France to give upload speeds as well up front. Mine definitely was and was advertised as 1G/1G. Very interestingly though, when I tested later I seemed to be getting more than 1G download. I measured 1260 up, 660 down. Now if you add that together you get almost 2G total. Why I should be betting more than 1G down is a bit of a mystery 
I haven’t seen any with more than just a power button for quite a long time. Buttons cost money and not just for the physical button.
Yes just power and “reset” usually.
Although my Vodapig router has two on the top marked “wifi” and “WPS” but since I use a separate Netgear Orbi MESH system for wifi, they are redundant.
Everything else, it’s log on via a browser, as aforementioned.
My Starlink is now installed. Took an hour including drilling a hole through a wall!
Speedtest on my iPhone using WiFi is 320mbps which is more than I’ll need even for downloading large image files.
€40 per month. No charge for the hardware.
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Blimey that’s cheap, from £75 a month for residential users in the Uk, another reason why I’ll put up with naff internet.
Is yours useable on mobile or just fixed line @Charleshh ? I could be interested but need mobile as well.
Wonder why its such a differential.
Possibly because the main application is going to be rural locations where other services are not an option - probably fewer of those in the densely populated UK.
Is 4/5G out of the question?
I just couldn’t bring myself to buy from Musk unless it really was the last option . I’m not terribly discriminating, I’ll buy from Bezos, for example, but Musk really is beyond the pale.
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