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Monday 25th May 2015 – IF YOU THOUGHT …

… that yesterday was bad, today was even worse. For long periods the internet connection wasn’t giving me any more than 20kbs and for long periods I wasn’t even getting anything at all. It wasn’t until quite late that things took off again and I was back at the 250 Kbs again – far too late for the football.

I didn’t have the same sleep last night either. I was awake in the middle of the night and struggled to get back off to sleep again. And by about 08:45 I’d had enough and was up and about.

To continue my day of rest I read a book and caught up with some work of my own that needed attention. There’s still plenty of time for the radio programmes. And I also had to help Liz design a form for a receipt for a product that she’s dealing with.

So that’s my day of rest over. For the second day in succession I’ve only put my foot outside to take the stats.

But I need to be up early tomorrow – it’s Caliburn’s controle technique.

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Sunday 24th May 2015 – WASN’T THAT A NICE …

… sleep last night?

I had a reasonably early night and went out like a light. And then I remember absolutely nothing until about 09:30 this morning. It’s a long time since I’ve had a good sleep like that.

A nice leisurely breakfast and then I sat down to carry on with the radio programmes, but I didn’t get far. I’m easily sidetracked, especially on a Bank Holiday weekend, and I ended up cutting my hair. it really did need doing too.

My experiments for watching the internet-streamed football on the laptop via the medium of the big screen on the DVD player were not so successful. But that wasn’t the fault of the screen.

In fact the screen worked very well, once I remembered that I could enlarge the web browser to fill the screen with the image, it worked quite well. But where it all fell apart was in the streaming.

Orange promise me between 2 and 8 Mbs, and according to the meter on their website, I’m receiving about 2.13 Mb. I don’t know where it’s all going though, because according to the meter that I have on my laptop, I’ve never had more than 280 Kbs and on Sunday we were having about 60 Kbs. That’s with everything else switched off and a very downgraded Google Chrome browser running just the one page.

Clearly something isn’t right.

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