Finally booted Virgin out

No need to do that Del.
 
wildebus said:
After posting about my DAB Radio, the lack of being able to use it "BUGged" me :D
Decided to sort out a power supply for my BUG (9V, so had to jerry-rig from a desktop PSU) and still working and display fine :)
But not many tunable DAB stations as it predates DAB+ :( Managed to find only around 13 stations that worked, but still had a few that I would use, so that is ok.
Something to maybe be aware of if buying of using an older DAB radio that it may not find all the stations you want?
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I have one of those in infrequent use. It still gets scores of stations, as well as the two or three I listen to. I have a feeling that one or two went DAB+ only, but I don't know which.
However, about once every two or three years, the Bug needs a reset to defaults. I'm not sure why, but it loses the will to work properly. The reset fixes it nicely.
 
Geek said:
I have one of those in infrequent use. It still gets scores of stations, as well as the two or three I listen to. I have a feeling that one or two went DAB+ only, but I don't know which.
However, about once every two or three years, the Bug needs a reset to defaults. I'm not sure why, but it loses the will to work properly. The reset fixes it nicely.
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Oh, I forget to add that a simple power cycle doesn't work to reset it.
 
We have BRSK at one house (in an urban area). Absolutely brilliant. After the first week, when service was new here, there were two or three scheduled outages, it has been rock solid*.
After a year or so, the 5G section of the wifi in the router was faulty, so they sent an engineer out to fit it. He checked the optical signal and declared it not good enough. (Seemed fine to us). Said he'd have to get a different engineer out to fix it.
I sort of expected two or three days wait. So it was a surprise when the doorbell rang 20 minutes later.
The engineer checked the connection. Cleaned it and said the problem was elsewhere. I'm not sure where he went, but he spend half an hour in a cherry picker up the pole past the end of the garden. After a couple of hours he called back to tell us it was all fine now.
We pay for 500mb/sec down and 500mb/sec up. Speedtest results consistently show 535mb/sec.
*And yes, it is monitored with checks every 60 seconds.
 
No problem with the router as I've said, ONLY the crappy TV box, which by the way, is a Nokia.
 
Geek said:
I don't make any comment about TV. Don't have one. They're all full of people I don't want in my house.
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Just clarifying in case anyone is tempted to get "better TV" only £10, but cheap no good in this case.
 
Fair enough. What I should have mentioned is that the connection is CGNAT'd unless you pay the extra £5 for Better IP.
Seems that's normal.
We also have to pay £5 for the same thing on the FTTP on our rural house, which is served by Voneus.
The Technicolor router that BRSK provides is OK but doesn't have wifi6. The Voneus one is probably better.
 
Geek said:
I have one of those in infrequent use. It still gets scores of stations, as well as the two or three I listen to. I have a feeling that one or two went DAB+ only, but I don't know which.
However, about once every two or three years, the Bug needs a reset to defaults. I'm not sure why, but it loses the will to work properly. The reset fixes it nicely.
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Also depends where you are to what you can pick up. DAB reception generally where I live is poor to start with, but I certainly get stations on the car DAB that the Bug doesn't get.
 
Youve lost me Tom, its all installed, the net is fine just the TV biz is rubbish.
 
I wonder if it's be worth getting this or similar off Amazon, I can send it back if it doesn't work.

It seems that USB 2.0 are hard to find most are 3.0, 3.2 or 3.3 nowadays, the TV is likely to be just 2.0 will the later ones work?

 
Pudsey Bear said:
I wonder if it's be worth getting this or similar off Amazon, I can send it back if it doesn't work.

It seems that USB 2.0 are hard to find most are 3.0, 3.2 or 3.3 nowadays, the TV is likely to be just 2.0 will the later ones work?

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That drive is using a USB A - Micro-B Cable. It is very unlikely NOT to work on a standard USB socket, be it USB 1.0 or USB 3.0 (you know, I don't think I have knowingly come across a USB 2.0? not sure what happened from original (1.0) to 3.0?) . It will just be potentially slower, but fast enough for your need.
I put the old SDD from a laptop into an external holder that uses the Micro B connector and I can plug it into any USB socket - 3.0 or otherwise and it works fine.

However ... it is described as an HDD and and not an SSD? As it is an HDD, then it will be more power-hungry and the USB sockets on TVs are generally very lower current and may not be enough to power the drive motor? You would be better off looking for an SSD for numerous reasons.
 
I'd suggest an nvme2 drive inside a usb3.1 adapter. Slightly more expensive, but far more future proof.

I've never seen a usb3 device that won't work in a usb2 socket, but anything is possible.
 
wildebus said:
That drive is using a USB A - Micro-B Cable. It is very unlikely NOT to work on a standard USB socket, be it USB 1.0 or USB 3.0 (you know, I don't think I have knowingly come across a USB 2.0? not sure what happened from original (1.0) to 3.0?) . It will just be potentially slower, but fast enough for your need.
I put the old SDD from a laptop into an external holder that uses the Micro B connector and I can plug it into any USB socket - 3.0 or otherwise and it works fine.

However ... it is described as an HDD and and not an SSD? As it is an HDD, then it will be more power-hungry and the USB sockets on TVs are generally very lower current and may not be enough to power the drive motor? You would be better off looking for an SSD for numerous reasons.
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I keep posting evidence of my hard-of-reading issue, thanks again David.
 
Geek said:
I'd suggest an nvme2 drive inside a usb3.1 adapter. Slightly more expensive, but far more future proof.

I've never seen a usb3 device that won't work in a usb2 socket, but anything is possible.
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And thanks Geek, I sort of recalled having an external drive kicking about but it turned out to be a CD/DVD drive.

Right back to finding the right one on Amazon with a SSD drive.
 
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