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I'll take the FTA viewing card off you for £10 delivered.. they work for ever don't they? I need Channel 4 & Five. I realise Sky are meant to supply them for £10 also but I understand they're somewhat cagey about doing so.

Auto for me except for one problem.. power limits. It's not happy above 500bhp, and in my BPU UK car, (which did feel shockingly fast on second turbo compared to my BPU Jap car) the box started slipping already (obviously nowhere near 500bhp..) I drove a 5spd N/A for a while and I couldn't get to grips with the box or clutch. Hard to describe it but felt like a heavy flywheel combined with funny pedal angle/travel/weight. Just wasn't such a smooth drive and I couldn't just throw it in the next gear uber-fast like say most of the other manuals I've driven.

It's sounding like your connection either isn't good enough, or your ISPs route to the Skype servers isn't good enough. Sign up with a free-to-register SIP provider and try their service out with a software SIP client like X-Lite.

I could've sworn I did mine somewhere near the pedals. I think it was a rubber bung with nothing going through it until I made a hole in it. Was that a bad idea? Might have been nicer to use the existing loom's bung I suppose.

you've definately set skype to use your normal sound card now, not the usb thingy? How does the skype test call sound?

I don't get it. The chart at the bottom shows the S3 as being better in all respects than the Megane, except for price. The print is small on my high res screen but I think I'm reading it right. The s3 is 4wd as well.. that'd sway me. The Honda is just lovely looking inside and out though, that'd sway me that way too.

fabulous

TomTom 6 for Symbian, Calcium, Filao Solitaire Pack, Frozen Bubble, erm.. mail for exchange of course.. not quite the same on an N-series but still useful.

Good idea

They're not amazing but should be good enough. There's some processing overhead with the VOIP that adds more to that but even so that should be good enough.

Do you need a wireless print server BTW? A wired print server would mean your printer could be within cabling distance of the router instead of the computer.

start -> run ->cmd [enter] 4.2 out of 5 sounds happy, and that online speed test will be affected by anything you might have on your computer using up bandwidth uploading/downloading, so that's good that you acheived 1.1mbit/s down and a relatively poor but expected 158kbit/s up.

The only thing to sometimes watch out for is that your router might not always assign the same IP address to the device, so it makes sense to statically configure the print server with an IP address. Most DHCP servers should give the same address to the same device (MAC) each time but in practice it doesn't happen like that with some routers.

That's clever... good find

BTW, I don't think the Greece -> UK SIP provider part will affect latency considerably. It's not that far away

Yeah, but a working (i.e. not faulty) DSL connection *should* be good enough, you'd think.. wouldn't ya? Colin: Any chance of doing a couple of ping tests to get some kind of idea if your connection is very laggy/latent from a command prompt type "ping -t 66.102.9.104" let it run for five minutes then press CTRL-C to stopp it and let us know the minimum, maximum and average round trip times that it gives you when you stop it. Then do the same for 158.152.1.43 I am seeing 35ms for the first and 20ms for the second.

Well, I said this to Colin a little while ago.. the audio quality on Skype is I think better than most regular SIP providers, so I don't think it will improve the sound quality, but the overall quality of use should be better as it's more telephone like and doesn't require a computer to be on/signed in/etc. I don't know how bandwidth hungry Skype is, but I know g.729 only requires about 8 - 10 kbit/sec. You would think anyone would have that to spare but it's still entirely possible that the broadband connection is just useless and ultra high latency or something or as gene suggested totally saturated. I suppose it would be worth trying a SIP service out using a software SIP client like X-Lite before going and buyer a hardware SIP device (i.e. the ATA or SIP phone).

You're welcome

Try these results: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=linksys+pap2t+site%3A*.es

Polish them a bit and flog 'em on here as ashtrays. I might buy one for a tenner!

We should add a section to the new user disclaimer/terms, something like: You are not the youngest person ever to have a Supra. Nobody cares if you think you might be. or something.

I think you will be good with the ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) which lets you plug the regular phone in and it converts it for use over a proper-standard-official-VOIP service (that being, SIP - the session initiation protocol, open standard used by lots of companies/services) instead of that proprietary closed-doors Skype thing. So once you've got an ATA thanks to Gav, you'll need to pick a SIP provider such as sipgate.com or http://www.voipcheap.co.uk/en/sipp.html whoever has prices you like and enter their settings into the ATA after you've registered with the service. Just hope the Cisco ATA is somewhat easier to configure than the Cisco 7960 phones.

Yeah. They are cheap, but the Linksys ones aren't much more. I was talking VOIP with some Asterisk nut on IRC a long time ago and he said he hated the Grandstreams though. Quite a lot of the Asterisk people didn't think too much of them, but I think they were all a bit snobby (polycom/snom) anyway. The Linksys ATA is cheap enough..http://www.voipon.co.uk/linksys-pap2t-analog-telephone-adapter-p-145.html