Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[Mike Johnson]

Tying some winter Grayling fly's for when I get back onto stable feet.

 

[littlespark]

@littlespark Hope your dad is OK.

Thanks Mike.

I’m going to see him this afternoon. Hopefully they’ve got some answers.
When he went in Sunday, they did a brain scan and could see the stroke he had 20 odd years ago… there may be a second one now.

He’s been having seriously dizzy spells since his doctor was trying to balance his high blood pressure tablets… which was taking him too low.

Now we’re hearing just last week, that he asked my mum to drive him one day because he couldn’t see properly… on Thursday he fell over his lawnmower (which he shouldn’t have been doing, but try tell him) which was another ambulance visit… then Sunday.

He had two funny turns lying on the bed… not able to speak… heart rate dropped to 30 bpm at one point, and bp shot up to 199 over something.

When we left at 10pm… it had settled to 60 bpm and 130 over something…

I heard he had a good night on Sunday, actually slept…. And he will be getting more scans to confirm what happened.

I’m going today to hear first hand what they say. At the moment I’m getting it through my mum, who is known for exaggerating to get a good story… who hears it from my dad, who can hardly speak, or understand what the doctors are telling him.



On a slightly happier note… my eldest has been accepted for an English teachers job in South Korea, and flies out on the 16th….. IF she can get the Visa by then. (Which she couldn’t apply for until she got her placement and contract)

Talk about last minute. Com

 

[Mike Johnson]

@littlespark

 

[littlespark]

Slightly better news tonight. Hes up, sitting on a chair... all the monitors are taken off, and hes going to be moved from a general ward into the stroke unit, "just in case"
They havent dsecided if it was a mini stroke or not.
Still unbalanced on his feet... but much better than he was on Sunday....
So eldest can now fly off around the world without worrying about him. She was the first grandchild... so they're quite close

 

[littlespark]

Mini stroke… my mum called it a “TIA” but that was from her cousin who used to be a nurse 20 odd years ago and not the doctor who’s seeing to him now.

Whatever it is, they think it’ll repair itself. He’s getting physio today, and hopefully his balance will come back.

I’m on the lookout for handrails, and a stairlift if I can find one for their house.

 

[littlespark]

Quick review of last night Olympic closing ceremony….

At least it wasn’t raining.

They kept it in the arena instead of out on the river… Huge set piece about the Golden Voyager alien arriving on the planet and digging up the 5 Olympic rings…. Joined by dozens of dancers in grey suits that looked like a fight seen from the 90’s Power Rangers.
There was some bloke playing a piano vertically.

There was a music interlude as they set up the next show….
“Encore une fois” ok… that’s in French… “we are the champions” goes with the Olympic theme I guess…..
“Freed from desire”…. Is she French? I don’t know, but I was getting sick of that song anyway as it seemed to be played at every event from athletics to swimming to equestrian

Where was all the actual French music? Daft Punk, David Guetta, “Joe Le Taxi”??? The theme song from ‘Allo ‘Allo?

Some famous French band called Phoenix came on and was joined by various internal artists… The sound was terrible. Jumping between a direct feed which was a fraction of a second behind the visuals or via the television microphones creating a horrible echo.

I stopped watching about 10pm so missed Tom Cruise jumping in

 

[Rockingit]

A bit late in my day, although I guess morning UK by the time this gets read, although by then will technically be yesterday's news to a reader... Anyway, I spent my morning educating a group of American 'deck electricians' about Eddy currents and why you don't have single holes in ferrous containment on 800A supplies. Not sure which I found the more amusing, the glazed looks in the eyes or the noise of the penny dropping.

 

[timhoward]

Good morning. Back from holidays, trying to remember where all the tools are and what I should be doing in what order next week….

Funniest thing on my Facebook feed this morning:

 

[Rockingit]

Enjoying being back in Blighty for the first time in two months and getting a Union Jack flag back on my picture!

 

[Dan]

Welcome back to the madness matey!

Did you like my info guiding American users to their forum?

Dont see all that anywhere else. It's like a different website just for them.

And I missed @timhoward facebook message lol that's a good one

 

[Rockingit]

Welcome back to the madness matey!

Did you like my info guiding American users to their forum?

Dont see all that anywhere else. It's like a different website just for them.

And I missed @timhoward facebook message lol that's a good one

It was odd seeing 'the other side' of the forum, for sure! Although it looks like it may become a regular feature for a while as I've as US based client who's really keen for me to run some of their Stateside projects.

Consequently, alongside a mountain of other paperwork and chores this morning are making sure all my airmiles are claimed in the right place!

 

[littlespark]

Lazy Sunday afternoon and I get this WhatsApp message from my brothers’ partners’ son….



The potentially electric question was….

“There’s a smell of burning…. And this is warm to the touch”


My expert advice…. In no particular order….Shut off everything in the consumer unit…. Dial 105…. And don’t bloody touch that again!



I heard back…. Someone will be there in an hour or two

 

[mainline]

Lazy Sunday afternoon and I get this WhatsApp message from my brothers’ partners’ son….

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The potentially electric question was….

“There’s a smell of burning…. And this is warm to the touch”


My expert advice…. In no particular order….Shut off everything in the consumer unit…. Dial 105…. And don’t bloody touch that again!



I heard back…. Someone will be there in an hour or two

Looks a lovely installation of the cutout.

 

[littlespark]

They only moved in on Friday... im surprised this hasnt been festering away for the previous owners....

Further photos showed a service isolator... Wylex plastic consumer unit with all RCBO's... except for one 32A thats marked "sockets"... so thats been a quick replacement to get the house sold...

Looks like a trip up to edinburgh for me, unless they can find a reliable local spark.

 

[Dan]

Goooooooood morning viet... I mean forum!

How the hell are you all?

Price surging oasis tickets, whaaaat? No thanks. That needs making illegal! Cheeky sods trying to compare themselves to hotels and uber; Difference being they tell you the price before you're in the queue.

Rain is here today in Newcastle-under-Lyme!

How's weather where you are?

 

[Rockingit]

Goooooooood morning viet... I mean forum!

How the hell are you all?

Price surging oasis tickets, whaaaat? No thanks. That needs making illegal! Cheeky sods trying to compare themselves to hotels and uber; Difference being they tell you the price before you're in the queue.

Rain is here today in Newcastle-under-Lyme!

How's weather where you are?

I've worked with both of them, they're both ****'s of the highest order. Save your money.

 

[littlespark]

Saved myself a load of money by watching their 1990’s Wembley concert that was in sky tv at the weekend.

 

[Rockingit]

This morning's delight is wrangling the best broadband and multiple mobiles deal I can find... Vodafone are so far showing promise

 

[Dan]

Are the BT lines that 90% of them use alright in your street? As that gives you loads of scope then.

I use virginmedia for work and sky for the general house devices and cameras and that does lag a lot. VM is mint though.

 

[littlespark]

BT for home broadband 150Mb/s

Voxi (vodaphone) for mobile service . (Free calls, texts and 45Gb data)

I think there’s a referral programme if someone uses my voxi link.

 

[Rockingit]

Are the BT lines that 90% of them use alright in your street? As that gives you loads of scope then.

I use virginmedia for work and sky for the general house devices and cameras and that does lag a lot. VM is mint though.

We're out in the sticks and only have FTC anyway, so it's kind of irrelevant. We see about 7/38 on a good day. But Sky who we're with at the moment just don't seem to have the DNS capabilities in their home routers for more than about 15 devices - as we're 30+ and constantly upstreaming camera's it's just never been that great at all!

 

[littlespark]

You can cut down a lot of the connected devices list surely?

I went into ours and knocked off a daughters ex boyfriend, a couple of their friends… phones we don’t have anymore…..

In fact, with that daughter in korea now, I can take off her phone and her laptop

 

[Rockingit]

You can cut down a lot of the connected devices list surely?

I went into ours and knocked off a daughters ex boyfriend, a couple of their friends… phones we don’t have anymore…..

In fact, with that daughter in korea now, I can take off her phone and her laptop

That's not what I meant. I'm talking about active devices which form a part of the current DHCP and routing table. It's an increasing problem in high tech households - I've just turned my head around and counted 7 from my chair, all currently talking in some form or other to the outside world. A rough total is something like 28 with just me in the house - even the washing machine is on wifi!!

 

[Dan]

We are way too connected aren't we!

You need run all the house admin on its own router there maybe.

As for the provider consider the fact the equipment will change with a new one so may not work as well with so many devices. But get the best price in writing and go to your existing one and haggle. Always worth giving a go.

 

[Rockingit]

We are way too connected aren't we!

You need run all the house admin on its own router there maybe.

As for the provider consider the fact the equipment will change with a new one so may not work as well with so many devices. But get the best price in writing and go to your existing one and haggle. Always worth giving a go.

This is part of the problem. Sky doesn't talk well to anything other than it's own cheap modem/routers. I'm more than happy to spend a (sensible) amount of dosh on a commercial level system and basically have two networks running on different subnets but the bottle-neck will always be the final last-mile out to the ISP. FTP would solve this in a heartbeat as I could just go and buy a fibre modem of my choice and a decent router, alas...

I've already got two AP's running and a total of five wifi LAN's on different IP ranges, but it's the same master DHCP server in the sky box...

 

[littlespark]

I thought the router actively looking for certain devices that are no longer in range would slow it down… (maybe not a lot, but every little bit helps?)

I’m going to go through mine again tonight. I forgot about her Nintendo switch and her old phone that she drowned in a nightclub toilet. They can be removed.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Looking through the above posts it seems to be children that slow the Wifi/Tech down.

 

[James]

This is part of the problem. Sky doesn't talk well to anything other than it's own cheap modem/routers. I'm more than happy to spend a (sensible) amount of dosh on a commercial level system and basically have two networks running on different subnets but the bottle-neck will always be the final last-mile out to the ISP. FTP would solve this in a heartbeat as I could just go and buy a fibre modem of my choice and a decent router, alas...

I've already got two AP's running and a total of five wifi LAN's on different IP ranges, but it's the same master DHCP server in the sky box...

I used to have similar issues, until I bought one of these

Dream Machine Pro - Ubiquiti Store

10G Cloud Gateway with 100+ UniFi device / 1,000+ client support and 3.5 Gbps IPS routing.

uk.store.ui.com

and 5 of these

Access Point U6 Lite - Ubiquiti Store

Compact, ceiling-mounted WiFi 6 AP with 4 spatial streams ideal for smaller offices.

uk.store.ui.com

you keep the sky router and turn off its wifi, connect a cable from router to Wan port on unifi and you are good to go.

 

[Rockingit]

I used to have similar issues, until I bought one of these

Dream Machine Pro - Ubiquiti Store

10G Cloud Gateway with 100+ UniFi device / 1,000+ client support and 3.5 Gbps IPS routing.

uk.store.ui.com

and 5 of these

Access Point U6 Lite - Ubiquiti Store

Compact, ceiling-mounted WiFi 6 AP with 4 spatial streams ideal for smaller offices.

uk.store.ui.com

you keep the sky router and turn off its wifi, connect a cable from router to Wan port on unifi and you are good to go.

Ha! I was looking at exactly that same Ubiquity combination earlier and emailed a local distributor for further advice. However, does the Sky box still not want to act as DHCP server and be a bottleneck?

 

[pirate]

Good morning all!
Just back from doing an airport run and can't decide whether to go back to bed or stay up. I've been awake since 1am anyway and I have a job on later this morning. I'll probably stay up and make breakfast which is scrambled eggs and smoked salmon and a glass of Cava...got to start the day off properly!

 

[James]

Ha! I was looking at exactly that same Ubiquity combination earlier and emailed a local distributor for further advice. However, does the Sky box still not want to act as DHCP server and be a bottleneck?

No, it will issue a single ip address to the dream machine.
Say 192.168.1.2

The dream machine will handle dhcp requests and for instance hand out the whole range from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.255

 

[Moley]

The sun is out, the sky is mainly blue and hopefully it'll be a good day. Yesterday was a pain but today looks promising. 3 x 400kV bushing oil samples, run diagnostics on a DGA analyser and prepare things for tomorrows transformer testing.

 

[Dan]

Morning @pirate @Moley @James

Might try that router thing for sky I could get rid of the virginmedia if the house didn't thrash the sky.

But the bushing oil thing goes over this layman's head

But that's fine ha

I've got clouds from north to south above me now. Mind it's 3 hours after you'd said. @Lou said we are having a 16hr storm Sunday night Monday morning but we had a teaspoon of rain. So has this storm gone somewhere else then or what.

Gas boilers must be being turned on as plumbers has started it's surge in 'my boiler won't turn on' type people we get around this time of year. That's the official end of summer for me.

 

[Rockingit]

No, it will issue a single ip address to the dream machine.
Say 192.168.1.2

The dream machine will handle dhcp requests and for instance hand out the whole range from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.255

Presumably though you have to turn off DHCP server within the sky box? And thus assign a static IP to the dream machine first?
How many simultaneous ranges can the DM provide under the same subnet? Using a class A I'd been looking for all three of 192.168, 10.x and 2.x's

ps - it won't ever issue a x.x.x.255 address as that's reserved, same as x.x.x.0

 

[James]

You can setup multiple network blocks, V lans, separate wifi networks running on the same access points. (If using there own access points)

DHCP can remain on for the sky router as it will give an address to the DM.
All network stuff is handled by the DM and only internet traffic is forwarded to the sky router, DHCP requests will not be forwarded through to the sky router.

 

[Rockingit]

You can setup multiple network blocks, V lans, separate wifi networks running on the same access points. (If using there own access points)

DHCP can remain on for the sky router as it will give an address to the DM.
All network stuff is handled by the DM and only internet traffic is forwarded to the sky router, DHCP requests will not be forwarded through to the sky router.

Thanks for this. All the AP's on POE or are there 'mains and mesh' options?

 

[James]

they are all POE however, if you cant get a network cable to a location, a poe injector will suffice and the AP will work in mesh mode. infact, if you have a pc near to it, then you can use the uplink port on the poe injector as a network port for the pc.

below, you can see that i have 2 wifi ssid. one a 5Ghz (fast) for most devices and a slower 2.4Ghz one as not all my smart home devices support 5Ghz

I have a single flat network but you can set up multiple networks and V lans if required

 

[timhoward]

Just a quick comment to confirm that Ubiquity is excellent gear, I've used their network switches, AP points, point-to-point line of sight links and cctv cameras on a few jobs. As above, injectors are available and mesh mode works well.

 

[James]

Just a quick comment to confirm that Ubiquity is excellent gear, I've used their network switches, AP points, point-to-point line of sight links and cctv cameras on a few jobs. As above, injectors are available and mesh mode works well.

the only thing i would say is that their cctv cameras are expensive compared to others and their recorders will not accept feeds from other cameras.

other than that, they are my go to supplier for networking equipment now.

 

[Dan]

Gooooooooooood moooooorning viet-foruuuummmm.