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Logmein cashs in – check your renewal costs

This entry was posted in Comment Internet Software and tagged LogMeIn on March 20, 2014 by HAL

After noticing messages on two logmein accounts that advised of changes in subscription terms and costs I was not happy to see the costs associated with the subscription had increased substantially from last years value. It was bad enough when Logmein capped the number of machines that could be managed with the free logmein client […]

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WordPress 3.6 – time to update

This entry was posted in Collaboration Internet Software Tips and tagged Wordpress on August 29, 2013 by HAL

The latest update to WordPress  3.6 includes updates to the base themes and changes to the autosave process. The update ran smoothly and quickly and in less that five minutes this site was updated and that included the themes and all plugins. Again Well Done WordPress

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New Year – New Plan

This entry was posted in Comment Internet and tagged Plusnet on January 6, 2013 by HAL

I started this year wondering about whether I could keep up the last two years pattern of a blog for every week day. Well due to other constraints and projects that have required more time an attention than normal I have decided that this year will be a more occasional blogging event – not necessarily […]

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Issues resolving pages with BT Infinity FTTC service (or have you paid your bill?)

This entry was posted in Comment Internet Tips and tagged BT Infinity FFTC on December 5, 2012 by HAL

This has occurred several times in the last year for clients. Ever since the rollout for FTTC rolled out there have been a spate of cases where clients say that they can no longer resolve web sites. You investigate and realise you can ping sites and use other protocols such as ftp to access remote […]

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Wot no dns lookup ?

This entry was posted in Internet Tips and tagged Draytek Vigor on November 27, 2012 by HAL

A colleague and were discussing a failure for DNS lookup on an SBS 2003 server where the secondary dns was the local Vigor 2820 router. When testing nslookup it failed after the requisite 2 seconds. After restarting the dns service and client on the server – the same result was found. We discussed the options […]

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Eeeeeeeee by gum – thats fast

This entry was posted in Comment Gadgets Internet Web and tagged 4G EE on October 30, 2012 by HAL

A lot of coverage today of the Everything Everywhere (EE) 4G launch. It highlights the truly poor nature of the 3G service. I find it almost worse than useless as its so slow and unreliable. I had to laugh as the intrepid BBC reporter showed the differing speeds between a 3G and 4G phone. 20Mb down […]

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Virgin now aiming at 120MBPS download – hold on to your browser

This entry was posted in Interesting Internet Tips Web and tagged Virgin on October 3, 2012 by HAL

If you’re one of Virgin Media’s top-tier (XXL) internet customers, you may soon see your service getting even more speedy. The Branson-backed company is boosting its top speed from 100Mbps to 120Mbps, thanks to a £110 million infrastructure investment. The majority of the network — around 60 percent — has yet to be upgrade , […]

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Vigor 3900 router browser problems

This entry was posted in Hardware Internet Tips and tagged 3900 Draytek Router WAN on September 19, 2012 by HAL

Okay – you have upgraded your client to the latest 3900 endpoint router for a new wan infrastructure and the first thing you notice is that the web interface for management is slow. Yes really slow. So you check comms and settings but to no avail. Then it hits you – its Internet Explorer that […]

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