Fibre to the premises

[Airspeed]

We have an appointment for the optic fibre to be connected direct to the house on Monday morning.
Will see if it actually gives us a decent internet service
At present, we often can't even connect, especially when the tourists come at the weekends and holiday season.
Hopefully "Can't find the server at Google, are you sure you spelled it correctly?" will be a thing of the past.

[airboatr]

Hi Mike, one of the properties I manage had fiber installed.
I cut the opening in the wall and bottom plate and prepared everything through the crawl space as most of the installers are hacks and drill holes through floors or the baseboards and leave cables strewn about so other tradesmen get entangled in them.
After the install was completed and the modem was set up the speed was far better than I thought it would be. A speed test pegged the needle and didn't bobble a bit.
But some sites still are slow to load because they limit the baud rate on their end.
btw
I spell "that word" like - goo guile.
Because I get too much goo I didn't search for in an attempt to beguile me into sites I didn't ax for.

[Airspeed]

I used to get around 22Mbps.
I just did this one

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I know that's pathetic compared to what many of you have, but it's a step up

[TSR2]

Thats brilliant Mike!

[Paul K]

I used to get around 22Mbps.
I just did this one

Speedtest 19-01-26.png

I know that's pathetic compared to what many of you have, but it's a step up

Not pathetic at all, Mike. I gather you live in a fairly rural area, so that speed is top notch. You are well into MSFS territory with that.

[Airspeed]

I used to get around 22Mbps.
I just did this one
Speedtest 19-01-26.png

I know that's pathetic compared to what many of you have, but it's a step up

Not pathetic at all, Mike. I gather you live in a fairly rural area, so that speed is top notch. You are well into MSFS territory with that.

Hi Paul,
Fairly rural sums it up
That's encouraging that I am in the territory, thanks Mate.

[Tomliner]

Hi Mike . Your speeds look good to me. The development I live in, although only 12 years old has no fibre to the premises. I have fibre to the cabinet which is about 500 metres away including internal wiring, so my d/l speed is about one third of yours. This, along with a pc which won’t run Windows 11 stops me even considering anything like FS 2020/24. For now I still run FS9 in Windows 10 for which I receive security updates until October this year. After that then maybe FS and I will have say goodbye but for now I still enjoy using FS. EricT

[airboatr]

Hi Eric,
I had a bit of an issue updating a surface go 2 to windows 11. During the process there was an offer to keep win 10 on the device with an extended update offer from Microsoft using a free offer for consumers
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows ... pdates?r=1
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If your device lacks the TPM chip/Secure Boot checks you can use Rufus to bypass the check on installation
Use goo guile and search for "rufus to install windows 11".

My issue was memory space. With only 64 GB on the surface there wasn't enough room to download the operating system even after moving some files onto a microSD card. So I ended up downloading the bootable win 11 iso from Microsoft and installing win 11 from a USB drive..
With the clean install and updates for drivers and software and security updates I picked up almost 14 GB of usable space.
Verify your product key, write it down for safe keeping, but win 11 should just use your existing product key.

.to bring it back on topic. the download speed from Microsoft was slow even on a fiber connection
Hope you're enjoying the faster baud rate with the new Internet service, Mike
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All the best.
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[Tomliner]

Thanks for the info Joe. TPM isn’t an issue with my pc, I think it’s the single core CPU. I don’t fancy trying any of the work arounds that I’ve seen on YT so I’ll wait until October and then decide. However it’s unlikely that fibre will be brought into this development by then even it passes by here below ground. EricT