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NewGamer11 · 20 Jun 2017 at 18:20

crinkleshoes said:
AP is in living room, this is speedtest from next room (my office):
IMG_0648 by CosmicLogos, on Flickr

How quick does your pr0n download now?

terley · 20 Jun 2017 at 18:30

Craig1981 said:
More TimBits!

Two guys, one who worked for me and one i worked for just set up the first Tim Hortons franchise in the UK

Gman · 20 Jun 2017 at 18:46

crinkleshoes said:
New AP - Ruckus R500:

Those speedtests are all on iPhone 7 Plus... I imagine I might get more throughput from something with a bigger aerial like a laptop.

Please tell me that didn't cost as much as I think it does :eek:

crinkleshoes · 20 Jun 2017 at 19:04

They aren't cheap.

But the R500 are end of line now... replaced by the R510... so they're being sold off less than half price... I got this one for £230 brand new. Can get the R300s for about £180 and they have the same range and main tech, just no "AC" wifi that the R500 does.

I also needed a PoE switch/injector... I was able to get a Netgear 8 port gigabit switch, with 4 ports PoE for £65.

Was considering a second Ubiquiti - then I saw the EOL deals and couldn't resist... one AP for a good sized house and garden is quite impressive + no need to run a cable through/round/over the house.

Wifey's home office now gets 100mbit where it couldn't hold a connection at all with the Ubi. She's not bothered about being wired in like me.

Gman · 20 Jun 2017 at 19:10

thats not too bad considering what they are new. How's it managing walls ? much loss?

neil_g · 20 Jun 2017 at 19:40

Depends on the wall. Generally they're pretty good but a double skin breeze block will kill most of it (as would most other ap).

Got a 700 kicking around and work, that thing is huge

crinkleshoes · 20 Jun 2017 at 19:42

Gman said:
thats not too bad considering what they are new. How's it managing walls ? much loss?

1-2 seems fine... any more and there's a bit of a drop off.

Ubiquiti starts a noticeable drop after the first.

I was introduced to them through work, done some side by side testing with Ubiquiti and Cisco & the Ruckus wipes the floor with both of them.

neil_g · 20 Jun 2017 at 19:45

Yup about 2 plasterboard stud walls theoretically should be fine (all other factors being perfect).

Feek · 20 Jun 2017 at 20:49

DAnDan · 20 Jun 2017 at 22:20

Raymond Lin said:

How are you finding them so far? Tempted to get a pair to use around the house.

Not sure if I'll notice any increase in sound quality over my ATHM50 though? Should probably read up!

Eatchipz · 20 Jun 2017 at 22:22

Kol said:
Snap. The noise cancellation on the tube and just general walkabout around town is incredible. Taking them off and hearing what they block is tiring.

My only annoyance is they were £315 but within six days they've dropped to £288.

If you got them on Amazon you can try getting the difference refunded. I have managed to do that a few times if it is within a reasonable time period.

Raymond Lin · 20 Jun 2017 at 22:28

DAnDan said:
How are you finding them so far? Tempted to get a pair to use around the house.

Not sure if I'll notice any increase in sound quality over my ATHM50 though? Should probably read up!

I didn't buy it to use round the house as I prefer speakers. I bought them for flights, even though I don't fly that often! Just my old pair of noise cancelling headphones are getting old in the tooth, must be 6 or 7 years old now and still headband is a bit tight round my ears. These are more over ear than on ear so much more comfortable.

Noise cancelling wise, it's not 100%. I can still hear people talking but background noise is 99% eliminated, on the plane it removes 95% of all sounds. The other thing that this headphone really shines are it's round pad feature, the ability to play, skip, pause, next, back, volume and even Siri with touching the right side ear cup is like magic. Not to mention if you cup over the ear it plays ambient sound instead into the ear cup, it also can answer phone calls too which is very odd at first.

Sounds quality, it's good, is it better than my HD600 or Momentum? I can't tell you because

1 - I have not tried it though any lossless or uncompressed sources like a CD.
2 - I don't use headphones at home which requires point 1 above.

Spacedeck · 21 Jun 2017 at 14:47

Few recently purchased items since Sunday. Haven't had a Yankee Candle before and I hear good things about them. Also bought a much needed candle wick cutter and an illuma-lid I thought looked cool on sale.

Anyone have any recommendations for Yankee Candles?

Hyburnate · 21 Jun 2017 at 15:08

Gman said:
thats not too bad considering what they are new. How's it managing walls ? much loss?

neil_g said:
Depends on the wall. Generally they're pretty good but a double skin breeze block will kill most of it (as would most other ap).

Got a 700 kicking around and work, that thing is huge

crinkleshoes said:
1-2 seems fine... any more and there's a bit of a drop off.

Ubiquiti starts a noticeable drop after the first.

I was introduced to them through work, done some side by side testing with Ubiquiti and Cisco & the Ruckus wipes the floor with both of them.

The Ruckus units are great, we deploy quite a few of the units at work and they've got a huge support team behind it, they seem to be leaving the ZoneDirector behind now and they'll begin to phase it out I believe in favour of their virtual environment. The R500 does come with BeamFlex+ I do believe which helps (adaptive antennas)

dirtychinchilla · 21 Jun 2017 at 15:46

Spacedeck said:
Few recently purchased items since Sunday. Haven't had a Yankee Candle before and I hear good things about them. Also bought a much needed candle wick cutter and an illuma-lid I thought looked cool on sale.

Anyone have any recommendations for Yankee Candles?

Looks nice. I always want the one that's called something breeze. Why do you need a wick cutter?

Spacedeck · 21 Jun 2017 at 15:53

dirtychinchilla said:
Looks nice. I always want the one that's called something breeze. Why do you need a wick cutter?

I have some large jar Liberty Candles and I struggle getting to the bottom of those to trim the wick, so having one of these makes it much easier. If you are wondering why I cut the wick, then it's because doing so is supposed to help the candle burn evenly.

dirtychinchilla · 21 Jun 2017 at 15:54

Ah OK that's interesting. I could see how that might help.

hughtrimble · 21 Jun 2017 at 16:07

No end cutters in the house? Useful kit if you don't that aren't just useful for wicks.

Spacedeck · 21 Jun 2017 at 16:13

hughtrimble said:
No end cutters in the house? Useful kit if you don't that aren't just useful for wicks.

Sadly not, they aren't anything I've ever needed to use. I was using nail clippers but the further down the candle goes, the harder it became to trim. The cutters are really nice though and work wonderfully. Although on my first cut, I did accidentally cut the wick too short...

crinkleshoes · 21 Jun 2017 at 16:53

Hyburnate said:
The Ruckus units are great, we deploy quite a few of the units at work and they've got a huge support team behind it, they seem to be leaving the ZoneDirector behind now and they'll begin to phase it out I believe in favour of their virtual environment. The R500 does come with BeamFlex+ I do believe which helps (adaptive antennas)

Yes it does.

ZoneDirector depends on size of deployment, only needed for large ones now.

Up to 25 and you don't need zd or cloud thanks to unleashed unless you want the advanced features.