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NormanDunbar wrote: Thu Aug 14, 2025 9:00 pm I win! (or lose!)

Upload 1.6 mbs.
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WiFi/Broadband is absolute pants here!


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You’re not really selling Scotland to me…
Its ok, complaining is the national sport up here :-D


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I thought that was bagpipes, sorry but I hate the sound of bagpipes


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t0nyt wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 2:24 pm You’re not really selling Scotland to me…
Umm... they have a better rugby team than Wales? :oops:


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dilwyn wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 8:38 pm
t0nyt wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 2:24 pm You’re not really selling Scotland to me…
Umm... they have a better rugby team than Wales? :oops:
If WRU can get there act together I think they could be a force again, hope so anyway


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t0nyt wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 6:57 pm I thought that was bagpipes, sorry but I hate the sound of bagpipes
It is not such a well known fact the the bagpipes are not a musical instrument. They are in fact a weapon of war!


As for broadband, we are in a rented fisherman's cottage, by the sea and not in a good signal place due to very thick stone walls. Outside the signal is a full 5 bars.

Our broadband is a mobile broadband box thingy. But it's inside the house, by an upstairs window and we get a half decent signal at times! I've seen it up as far as 6 MbS in the past.

But the house is wired for BT fibre, and it has had it before, but we don't know how long we will be here, so taking a 24 month contract is not a great idea.

HTH

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NormanDunbar wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 8:56 pm It is not such a well known fact the the bagpipes are not a musical instrument. They are in fact a weapon of war!
That explains a lot!

The fisherman’s cottage sounds idyllic. Tbh if I could live somewhere like that I wouldn’t be bothered by lack of connectivity


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Mono pressing, Germany. For just €10.

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I think RalfR should have been born British!

Some of those Beatles records, especially in mint condition with picture sleeves, can sell for fairly high prices these days.


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dilwyn wrote: Wed Aug 27, 2025 8:47 amI think RalfR should have been born British!
:D I think that sometimes too.

"Paperback Writer" can only be heard in a mono pressing, as it retains the beautiful echo that's barely audible in the stereo mix.

The English Parlophone pressing in mint condition costs around €50 (at the moment); mine is VG+, still very good. Much too expensive :shock: .

BTW: I also use EMI tapes ;)

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