Note to self: Hide the chunky Virgin Media remote control from @LuckyBenski if they happen to visit.
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What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Replaced about 2/3 of the downlights in the house. These were all 50W halogens of which we had over 50. That's 2.5kW to put the lights on!
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Painted the hallway a nice light buttercream yellow (chosen by the Mrs). Walls needed quite a bit of prep work. Final result looks good though 
Looks like a vine weevilWhat bug is this?
Thought it may be a weevil. It dropped out of the attic...
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Really hard to crush, tough gits.
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It's a weevil (family Curculionidae) in the genus Sitona, possibly Sitona lineatus, one of the most common Sitona species. The beetle only wound up inside the house by accident, you can put it outside.What bug is this?
Never worth rushing these things, takes time to do a job well.
Funny thing is it took like 5 minutes
Because you planned it well over the last 6 monthsFunny thing is it took like 5 minutes
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Last few days I built my new workshop and shed and felted the roof on the of them.
Will be kitting out the internals in the coming weeks but the sparky aint coming until next weekend so gotta hold off on the bigger stuff until he's wired in the power and the lights.
Will be kitting out the internals in the coming weeks but the sparky aint coming until next weekend so gotta hold off on the bigger stuff until he's wired in the power and the lights.
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Spent the day testing/comparing the Toob provided router (Linksys Velop MX4200: Wifi6) with the WiFi 7 TP-link I picked up recently...
...and now my WiFi speeds are absolutely appalling, compared to a wired connection.
I understand that wired will always outperform WiFi, but I'm struggling to understand how 40-60mb download on WiFi, with my pretty decent phone (OnePlus 9 Pro), on the 5Ghz, is acceptable compared to 900/900 wired.
Have factory reset both routers to no avail: WiFi doesn't get over 60mb on any device.
...and now my WiFi speeds are absolutely appalling, compared to a wired connection.
I understand that wired will always outperform WiFi, but I'm struggling to understand how 40-60mb download on WiFi, with my pretty decent phone (OnePlus 9 Pro), on the 5Ghz, is acceptable compared to 900/900 wired.
Have factory reset both routers to no avail: WiFi doesn't get over 60mb on any device.
I had a similar issue with really quite expensive ubiquiti gear (relatively speaking). Do check the 5ghz band. Mine was set to 40mhz but changing it to 80mhz got me to 400mbps.
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rewired some of my home cat6A network, wall plates and runs. my back is killing me now.