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Monday morning - 7.30am the team of three and two vehicles arrived having had their alarm clocks go off at 3am ! After negotiating the 'pinch point' on the approach to our place, and Thank God for a team leader with a "Can Do" attitude, they started the assembly of our outdoor studio. 25 ft x 12 ft.

By 10.30 am, the shell was up and watertight.

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Great Rodger, your view is very nice. Also like the sundial and the Ginko. Noticed the round brick columns are the supporting an arbour.?
 
duke said:
Great Rodger, your view is very nice. Also like the sundial and the Ginko. Noticed the round brick columns are the supporting an arbour.?
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No, old railway sleepers !
 
HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM....

There is a v-shaped gap - wide at the top...narrowing down at the bottom. I got my tape measure out. The factory have made the bottom of the front internal frame - that defines the rest of the building - 2" out of square.

That and now realising the Magnet kitchens have never kept pace with current supply lines from Blum and so their drawer cabinets are using out-dated Tandem boxes for which there is no longer any of the specific Orga-Line made. Which means you can no longer divide up the internals of the drawers which we always found incredibly useful.

I am getting changed and going down the pub. Had enough for today
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Amazing what a quiet pint will do. The fitters had been talking about the roof frame being too long. About undoing a heck of a lot of stuff then trying to use straps to pull the side back vertical . ..ignoring the fact that there was no anchor point available at the other end of the strap. Then trimming some of the roof....then this....then that. Sounded OTT to me and would take many hours.

Then an epiphany. They were focusing on the wrong part. It was the bottom that needed work. Undo the screws holding the bottom of the frame to the floor then use The Persuader to gently knock the bottom to level the gap.

I sold the idea to the crew when they arrived. Within 30 minutes the job was done.

Result!
 
RogerS said:
Amazing what a quiet pint will do. The fitters had been talking about the roof frame being too long. About undoing a heck of a lot of stuff then trying to use straps to pull the side back vertical . ..ignoring the fact that there was no anchor point available at the other end of the strap. Then trimming some of the roof....then this....then that. Sounded OTT to me and would take many hours.

Then an epiphany. They were focusing on the wrong part. It was the bottom that needed work. Undo the screws holding the bottom of the frame to the floor then use The Persuader to gently knock the bottom to level the gap.

I sold the idea to the crew when they arrived. Within 30 minutes the job was done.

Result!
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Who’s a clever Roger. Nice, it’s that ability to see past what everyone else thinks.
 
Looks a lovely space Roger, plenty of light for the workbench up against those windows & plenty of room for the bandsaw & planer thicknesser behind.
 
Doug said:
Looks a lovely space Roger, plenty of light for the workbench up against those windows & plenty of room for the bandsaw & planer thicknesser behind.
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Ummmm....I don't think that that is going to happen, Doug
 
I discovered that one of the downsides of the construction is that all the foil insulation and Kingspan has provided me with the perfect Faraday cage. Not a chance of any WiFi or mobile signal - the latter being almost non-existent outside the building to begin with. No easy way to get any cables to it unobtrusively. Long term plan will be an armoured cable as the nearest outdoor source of power is a measly 1.5mm cable. That will be the time to install a cable. Meanwhile what to do?

I’d had some success with Powerline adapters in the past and so tried them out. At first they were OK and gave a reasonable throughput and enough for Googling and email etc. But over the last few weeks the bitrate had dropped drastically. Probably due to the birds nest wiring used by Il Bodgeo. If I still had my old oscilloscope I bet I would have seen noise on the mains …possibly due to a dodgy connection somewhere.

So what to do? Only one temporary answer. Surface run an Ethernet cable. I originally intended to plug it into one of the WiFi repeaters but Trim advised against that because it meant that the fastest data rate would be set by whatever the speed was at that repeater. I hadn’t realised that and so Thank You, Mark (y)

Ran the cable from inside the house (which was when I discovered the duff ground level outside the house) and plugged it into the router. Plugged it into a WiFi repeater inside the studio and checked the speed. Much more like it. 50 Mbps. But then I thought….mmmm…wonder what the speed is if I plug it directly into the iMac ?

220Mbps download. 236Mbps upload. Ping 9 ms. That will do very nicely. 😀
 
Our internet/fibre connection woes continue. Dunno how we manage on just 20mbps via ADSL or quite what we would do with 220Mbps.
 
Twenty meg!!!
At the last residence we only got the chance to upgrade from dial-up ten years ago.
The modem would regularly drop out when the line speed fell to 8kpbs.
 
AndyP said:
Our internet/fibre connection woes continue. Dunno how we manage on just 20mbps via ADSL or quite what we would do with 220Mbps.
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I can't get more than 28mbps with a rare spike of around 30. Frustrating as full fibre is less than 50 yards from the house and I could get 100mbps for less than I'm paying now.
I've put in a mesh system gleaned from my son who's upgraded. I added another couple off ebay so with 5 points it's at least more consistent then the BT extenders we had.

Like you I'm not sure what I would do with huge speeds.
 
Lons said:
I can't get more than 28mbps with a rare spike of around 30. Frustrating as full fibre is less than 50 yards from the house and I could get 100mbps for less than I'm paying now.
I've put in a mesh system gleaned from my son who's upgraded. I added another couple off ebay so with 5 points it's at least more consistent then the BT extenders we had.

Like you I'm not sure what I would do with huge speeds.
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I think that a good (ie low Ping) is important to gamers. No idea if a high speed is concomitant with a low Ping.
 
Speed is a combo of bandwidth (eg 28 Mbps) and latency (ping 9 ms). The importance of one vs the other is dependent on the application. For example, on satellite we have OK bandwidth so can watch online video, but poor latency (high ping times), so would be bad for interactive gaming.
 
Speed, in broadband terms, is largely a misnomer. The packets all travel at the same velocity, but the 'speed' element in broadband (generally, to the average consumer product) comes down to actual bandwidth, meaning speed is determined by the length of time it takes to download a large file, in Mbps/Gbps.

Your packets across a copper based ADSL line move at the same speed as they do across fibre (the speed of light), but on larger bandwidth links more packets can get through.

Latency is the RTT (Round Trip Time) for packets to cross the many links/routers etc between your end device and some random nominated device further down the routing path.

As you say Roger, lower latency is desirable for online gamers due to the potential for a few ms being the difference between being shot, or killing your opponent in a FPS (First Person Shooter) game.
 
Just tested mine a couple of times
Down is 27.6mbps
Up 5.57mbps

Latency (ping?) 30ms
 
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