Gareth Halfacree's Recent Activity
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Gareth Halfacree liked David's post in the thread Other What currently makes your life awesome?.
A workmate pointed out my backpack was decidedly un-thrilled about being left alone in the office. [IMG] :lol:
10 Feb 2026 at 16:26 -
Gareth Halfacree liked wyx087's post in the thread Other CGNAT and IPv6 hosting help.
That's very true. I have been thinking of it the wrong way. It is just a brick wall, anything not recognised is discarded. So just as...
10 Feb 2026 at 15:35 -
Gareth Halfacree liked Zoon's post in the thread Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?.
Similar here. Before that I also worked for a solicitors with a frac-T1. When my boss needed to do a big download she’d send out a...
10 Feb 2026 at 14:51 -
Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Other CGNAT and IPv6 hosting help.
It doesn't have to be "robust," in that it's not actually doing anything security related - it's not like an antivirus where it has to...
10 Feb 2026 at 13:31 -
Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Other What currently makes your life awesome?.
Oof - still, at least it's not classic ADSL - 8Mb/s down and... I forget, 1Mb/s up? Less?
10 Feb 2026 at 12:19 -
Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Other CGNAT and IPv6 hosting help.
Since my 'net connection was down anyway, I enabled IPv6 to see what all the fuss is about. My ISP supports it natively, and I can...
10 Feb 2026 at 12:05 -
Gareth Halfacree attached a file to the thread Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?.
Yup, which is why it won't show up on a speed test: you'll get the speed of whichever of the two WAN links the speed test is running...
10 Feb 2026 at 11:40
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Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?.
Back when I was a technician for a school here in Bradford, the 'net connection for the whole place was dual-bonded BRI ISDN. 128kbps,...
10 Feb 2026 at 10:38 -
Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?.
It does not, and it is not. Simultaneous dual WAN doesn't work like that: some traffic goes one way, other traffic goes the other....
10 Feb 2026 at 10:09 -
Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Other What currently makes your life awesome?.
Not only do I have fast internets again, but I've negotiated an early renewal deal: I'm going from £38 a month for 500/500 and a static...
10 Feb 2026 at 09:51 -
Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?.
Spotted an engineer up the pole at about 0900; Fasts came back around 0905. An easy fix! Better yet: the new cable works, and I'm...
10 Feb 2026 at 09:25 -
Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?.
This has actually picked up today: getting between 19Mb/s and 26Mb/s, with the odd dip into single digits. The latency's a bit of a...
9 Feb 2026 at 11:06 -
Gareth Halfacree liked RedFlames's post in the thread Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?.
break out the usb drive carrying carrier pigeons.
8 Feb 2026 at 17:22 -
Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?.
It used to get a lot more than that, but that was when it was positioned by the front window looking out over the valley; it's on the...
8 Feb 2026 at 17:02 -
Gareth Halfacree replied to the thread Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?.
Got a call! From a human! Who ran a diagnostic and found yes, there *is* a problem betwixt the ONT and the PON! And who enquired as to...
8 Feb 2026 at 16:38
