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What is Naked Broadband?

What is Naked Broadband?

What is Naked Broadband? Naked Broadband (and naked DSL) is a term used to describe Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) broadband without a needing to have a telephone service. So it's genuinely broadband without a phone service. Trials for it have been ongoing by BTOpenreach since 2014, the official name is 'Single-Order FTTC'.

Will broadband work without microfilter?

Will broadband work without microfilter?

Will broadband work without a microfilter? If I don't use a microfilter will my broadband still work? No. You will experience drop-outs (occasional drops in your connections). We asked a seasoned telecoms engineer this question: A microfilter is really to cut out the ringing current, so even if there's no

Why are broadband speed tests different?

Why are broadband speed tests different?

Why are broadband speed tests different? How come if I perform speed tests on different sites the speed is different? Or at different times the speed is different? Due to many factors. The line your testing might be congested (meaning there's a lot of traffic between you and the service

Are broadband and wifi the same?

Are broadband and wifi the same?

Are broadband and wifi the same? What's the difference between broadband and wifi? Can someone explain them? No, they are not the same. Wifi is just a wireless signal which typically your wireless router emmits around your house. A Wifi signal is what you see on your phone.

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Will broadband work without phone line?

Will broadband work without phone line?

The short answer is no your broadband will not work without a phone line. However, what people usually mean when they ask this question is "Can I get broadband without a phone package?". The answer to that question is yes. How do I get broadband without a phone line package?

What is 17mb speed like?

What is 17mb speed like?

17mb broadband is more than enough for example if you're a small family two kids. For browsing the internet watching iPlayer and doing internet banking 17mb broadband is an ample speed. Bare in mind that Ofcom reported in 2016 that: > The average actual fixed broadband download speed delivered to UK

Internet options for small business

Internet options for small business

When choosing the right internet for your business think about: * How many people will be using the connection, because this affects if you really need fibre or not. * Avoid cheap 'bundled' packages which combine energy/phone/water, you're almost always being ripped off by a broker * Choose technically competent providers.

What a Scrooge Move: BTs Calculated Broadband Price Rise This Christmas

What a Scrooge Move: BTs Calculated Broadband Price Rise This Christmas

Update: Which? Has reported [https://www.which.co.uk/news/2017/12/bt-broadband-and-landline-prices-to-rise/] : November 7: BT has announced that a range of price rises affecting landline, broadband and BT Sport customers will come into force on January 7 2018. Which? [https://www.which.co.uk/news/2017/12/bt-broadband-and-landline-prices-to-rise/] and

How to track down influencers in your market on a budget

How to track down influencers in your market on a budget

An upcoming sustainable fashion business asked How can I identify key influencers in my marketplace online. What about people in other countries engaged in the same topic I can reach out to? The objective is to get some quick wins to optimise search strategies on the web to focus on

UK Banking Is Set To Disappear As You Know It: Bank Feeds, Export Wars and PSD2

UK Banking Is Set To Disappear As You Know It: Bank Feeds, Export Wars and PSD2

QIF/OFX/HBCI/FinTS Financial reporting is key but it's tedious and boring, however the promise of SASS services like Sage, Xero, Quickbooks, and Freeagent are to automate the process, but always via a service called yodlee.com. Note the singular use of 'service', it's not clear in the UK

Checksum and CRC How To

Checksum and CRC How To

Checkum Let's have a go! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFOGDY2e0mQ * decide and agree on a number by which we divide by (e.g. 16) * take sum of all the numbers Agree on a number to divide by: 16 Here's some numbers: 2511127134First- Take the sum of all

Writing a Docker file

Docker files build ontop of other docker files. E.g you might have a 'Dockerfile' in which the first line reads FROM python:2.7-slim. It's important to understand that "python:2.7-slim" simply refers to another Dockerfile, usually on docker hub [https://hub.docker.com/_/python/]. Go there and

What is EJS and why do I need it?

What is EJS and why do I need it?

EJS is a templating engine for for JavaScript. So, font-end stuff. It seems pretty laissez-faire in that it doesn't tell you how to organise things. Ultimately, EJS is a tool to generate HTML markup with plain Javascript. The general idea Send your content to the browser delivered as js, in

Why you should base your backup strategy on standards not startups

Why you should base your backup strategy on standards not startups

Today, Dropbox updated their blog post announcing end of support for part of their service which backup services use for their back-up solutions. Dropbox Blog: From September 28th, 2017: API v1 endpoints are no longer accessible. Also recently, Crashplan, a popular backup solution for Mac users decided to discontinue offering

Notes on Javascript Promises

Notes on Javascript Promises

Promises are not to be broken. Collection of notes which trip me up when creating Javascript promises within Ajax requests. Looping over an array to perform ajax requests, which are wrapped into promises: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36664272/promise-for-loop-with-ajax-requests The above creates an additional method on the javascript built-in Promise

Do I need a phone line or number for Broadband?

It's 2017, 96% of UK 16-36 year olds have a smartphone¹ that allows you to browse the web, download apps and somewhat least importantly nowadays, make calls & send texts. It's not just on the move that people are using their phones, within the home, most people use their smartphone as

Bash deep dive: Inspecting Jenkins Autopilot Docker setup.sh Script

tldr; You should. You learn some incredibly esoteric things when reading shell scripts line-by-line written by people who know what they're doing. This is a line-by-line analysis of start.sh which is used to check your environment before deploying Jenkins using the autopilot pattern, an idea developed by staf at

Docker vs Solaris Containers (tldr; it's a question of kernel support, not application)

Containers feel a bit like the elusive null packet. When reading & learning about Linux containers (cgroups), Docker containers, and containers in general, it's quick to realise that just like null packets, in concept "they are perfect in their simplicity and they are very true". Yet, achieving simplicity is hard damn

Laravel Auth Check Guard in template, controllers, and routes

Firstly, make sure you're not missing out: you'll probably want to use Laravel Authorization Policies rather than guard checks. Remember: Put guards as close to the routes as possible, don't waste time having PHP build the page only to have the template block access. Start with the routes, and work

Laravel Native Multi-auth Password Reset

This pertains to Laravel 5.4, and probably above. Example: You have another auth provider called 'customer'. Tldr; * Copy both existing password controllers * Add a boker method in new ForgotPasswordController * Add a showLinkRequestForm in new ForgotPasswordController and point it to a new view * Update new ResetPasswordController: Set $redirectTo path set

How to review and choose an e-commerce platform

How to review and choose an e-commerce platform

Rule 1: Define the problem you're trying to solve Is there anything unique about what you're selling and how you sell it? Website builders are usually great if you're selling 'things' / 'widgets', but fall on their face if your trying to do anything slightly off the well-beaten track of selling

Data Persistence In Containerised Environment With AutoPoilot

At the moment you can't talk about containerisation without thinking about a hole host of dependant topics: * Auto discovery - Container Name Services & what do you mean port 80 is already in use? * Managing persistent storage in a containerised environment - Where do I put my database & oh damn where

Horde Ubuntu 16.04 lts PHP7

Ubuntu 16.04 does not come with php5 packages. However, Horde requires the PDO extension, which can be resolved by installing the php5.6-pgsql module. This fixes the Could not instantiate PDO. PDOException: could not find driver (1) error: sudo apt-get install php5.6-pgsql Incompatibility with PEAR's Services_Weather package

Debugging Laravel Policies

Debugging Laravel Policies

This is relevant to Laravel 5.4 and above (probably) Help! My laravel policy not working..." Some debugging strategies to help with this. * The default Laravel Policy directory is app/Policies/yourModelPolicy.php * You must register your policies by specifying them in the AuthServiceProvider.php file at app/Providers * Have

Winning Mobile-First Markets Adwords & Analytics

Adwords, Analytics

Winning Mobile-First Markets Adwords & Analytics

How to capitalise on mobile users & understand what micro-moments actually means Key takeaways from the recent Winning Mobile-First Markets Live-stream' by Google * More searches are now coming in from mobile than on desktops. * Emerging markets: For some users their first ever search is from a mobile phone. * Less mature markets

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