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AAISP will also accomplish what you want: https://www.aa.net.uk/voice-and-mobile/number-porting/port-numbers/ Give them a call and let them know what you want to accomplish; to me it would seem like you'd only want to be paying the ongoing rental to keep that landline number active; you'd...

The smart meter has only one relay, the entire power for the entire house. So it could shut off the whole house, but it doesn't have the ability to (say) turn off my heating while leaving the lights alone. There is a feature called ALCS which allows the meter to send out a low-level signal to...

I agree with Caged; the biggest help here will be to get as many of the wireless points onto hard-line backhaul. Get the spade out and run some trenching! If you do the backhaul with copper ethernet, it's important to use external rated cable, the PVC on the regular stuff will go brittle and...

This may arrive far too late, but you don't need to go for the antenna in the first instance. As you've found good speeds on Three during the non-peak hours, that implies that your current setup is able to manage good speeds - you're being slowed down by congestion from other users, not by your...

I'm quite happy with my smart meter. I use a fair bit of electricity - my hot water heating and space heating are all electric, so I was averaging around 100 a month on electric. Got a smart meter fitted and moved to Octopus Energy's Agile tariff for a while, now on their Go Faster tariff - I'm...

The part might well be there to smooth out ripple or similar in the power supply (for example sake). While it might still work, you've no way of knowing if you're stressing other components of the card more & might be hastening a premature failure. If this component helps the card make the jump...

I guess if they're running it too hot, the question is: how hot? If a user on the 500meg service is getting 'only' 200mbit but reliably.. that's possibly still better than a flickering 52mbit FTTC connection. Of course, keep an eye out and migrate when possible - if the network in your street...

Did you mean in care level 1? Care level 4 looks like the gold plated option that's most expensive, level 1 looks the bargain bin one.

I'd presume that a downclocked card will not hammer the vram quite as hard as at stock? Currently the cost of electricity is a lot less than the profits. I'm mining on my 3080, but the heating in my apartment is electric panel heaters. Mining produces heat (250 watts or so), so that's heat which...

What does the address checker here state? https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/

Maybe the fans wear out, but the actual GPU will be fine, so long as it's not overheating. If it's just working for a long period of time and not flirting with overheating temperatures, it'll be fine. I don't see the harm - Nvidia and AMD are selling products that are popular. That you want to...

Interesting that the hetzner speedtest server returns wildly differing results to your server. Does a traceroute to speed.hetzner.de return the same route as a traceroute to either of your hetzner servers? (Differing only at the very very end?)

Yep, especially easy if the automated system says "Calls may be recorded for quality and training purposes". Well, you are after good quality customer service after all, so cheers for permission, telephone robot machine!

Well yep you'd offset any heating costs, because all that energy wil largely become heat. So if your system is drawing 450 watts then that's about 1/4 of a fan heater worth of heat. So that'll be why the room warms up somewhat when gaming!

Well yep, I'm on Octopus' Agile tariff so the rate changes every half hour! But by avoiding the 4-7pm peak it's working out cheaper. But that's by the by, in the same way people might not game for 10 hours a week, or might take some weeks off - it's just showing how to substitute in whatever...

Well, the going rate per kWh is around 15p/unit these days (bit more bit less). Using a kilowatt for an hour will cost 15p. So if a new card uses an extra 100 watts, that's 0.1kWh per hour when gaming. So if you game for 10 hours a week, and 52 weeks a year, that'd be 0.1kW x 10hrs x 52w x £0.16...

Yep, with the Call of Duty patches, they're so large & so many people get them on the same day that it can highlight bigger capacity issues elsewhere in the network, e.g. the peering connection between your ISP and the CDN that Activision are using. Other stuff might go via a different route so...

I think maybe 4 years ago, the same could well have been said about the CPU market. Yet here we are with the tables having turned, and mindshare starting to move across. AMD played a brilliant move there - their products were very competitive in terms of performance, and price. In some cases the...

The one thing that jumps out to me is the downstream SNR Margin. Short answer: that's high, it suggests a noisy line, bad wiring, or some other line fault. Longer answer: When ADSL connects, it tries to go at a speed that isn't just "the fastest it can go", but "the fastest it can go while...

There'll be an ONT installed in your property if/when you upgrade to FTTP. That'll convert the fibre optic to an RJ45 network socket. It'll then be a regular network cable from the ONT to a router. Much like with FTTC when some people use an Openreach modem separate to their routers.