Techy Stuff Help!

[pavlosmacwolf]

I have finally got internet back up at my house, but i am fairly limited on monthly gigabite use. I can only purchase 10 gigabites per month.
So! can anyone give me a clue as to how many gigabites (approx) i would use watching a game, as opposed to listening to the radio commentary on the wolves site.
This video hotspot system from vodaphone offers no way for me to check the mega\gigabites i use on a daily basis.
Any hints would help, thanks guys.

 

[Tom Hark]

I have finally got internet back up at my house, but i am fairly limited on monthly gigabite use. I can only purchase 10 gigabites per month.
So! can anyone give me a clue as to how many gigabites (approx) i would use watching a game, as opposed to listening to the radio commentary on the wolves site.
This video hotspot system from vodaphone offers no way for me to check the mega\gigabites i use on a daily basis.
Any hints would help, thanks guys.

It depends on the quality of the stream; a Flash stream will be around 500-800Mb. Acestream will be more.

 

[arklowolf]

I have an ecommerce website which was built approx 2 years ago. It is ASP apparently.
The company who built it were charging me £250.00 p.a. for hosting. The hosting cost was due for renewal tomorrow. Last Friday I got an invoice from a company I have never heard of for £1180.00 p.a. for hosting, and a demand that it was due within seven days.
Apparently the original company have gone into voluntary liquidation and the directors (and staff I understand) are now working for the new company. I spoke with a manager there and she basically said if you don't pay what we are asking we'll switch the website off.
Because of the way I have been treated and the exorbitant rise in the cost of hosting (approx. 380%) I am disinclined to pay them a fucking penny tbh.
Consequently I contacted a hosting company here in Ireland (a big outfit) about taking over the hosting of my site. After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing between the hosting company and the potential hosting company, I managed to get a list of what is required of their servers for them to take the hosting on. The new hosting company have now come back to say they will not be able to assist as it will require a developer to set their system up bespoke basically to ensure the site functions correctly. I'm at a loss as to what is the best course of action for me:
1). Pay them what they say and expect a bigger bill again next year.
2). Don't pay them and have my site shut down.
3). In which case I will need a new site building incurring more cost. (Wordpress this time?).
4). Try to find a developer who can do 'stuff' to get the existing site to work with a new host.
Any advice would be appreciated

 

[Tredman]

Pay them for the year and then spend the year looking to move elsewhere, assuming you make enough profit to make it worthwhile continuing - you're very unlikely to get anything sorted within the week (£250 is / was very cheap imo).

Ecommerce platforms are ten a penny, might be worth trying to move to a more generic site from one of the big players so this won't happen again.

 

[Paul]

Don't think YouTube uses flash anymore? Be worth checking windows update again and also checking a different browser (assuming you are on Windows 10 then try edge).

Thank you, on Edge Youtube is fine, does that mean then there's a conflict between Youtube and Chrome :confused-smiley-013

 

[arklowolf]

Pay them for the year and then spend the year looking to move elsewhere, assuming you make enough profit to make it worthwhile continuing - you're very unlikely to get anything sorted within the week (£250 is / was very cheap imo).

Ecommerce platforms are ten a penny, might be worth trying to move to a more generic site from one of the big players so this won't happen again.

Ok. Thanks for the reply. I'll consider your advice.

 

[Tredman]

Thank you, on Edge Youtube is fine, does that mean then there's a conflict between Youtube and Chrome :confused-smiley-013

Yeah, don't think the owners like each other

It's probably some obscure setting / method chrome uses the render video (think they use HVEC) and perhaps your graphic system doesn't like it. Might take a lot of googling to find what though.

 

[t3ch]

Thank you, on Edge Youtube is fine, does that mean then there's a conflict between Youtube and Chrome :confused-smiley-013

between Google and Google? no.

Just a quick one, since the last Windows update, now every time I play a Youtube video the whole screen goes black apart from the bottom bar, If I move the mouse over the video window it comes back on for about 10 seconds then goes off again, if you pause the video it stops on but if you move your mouse off the video pane it goes black again.
This doesn't happen on any other video site ??

have you installed any ad blockers? I've seen this happen before with certain overly aggressive plugins. The way youtube ad streaming work isn't as straight forward as blocking inline HTML, so some of the video ad servers get lumped in with legitimate streams, which results in a blocked video feed.

generally the quickest way to troubleshoot stuff like this is to try in a private browser window (or in chrome, incognito). if youtube works there, you know you have something in your main settings, plugins, etc. that is affecting performance.

 

[Pablowolf]

Thank you, on Edge Youtube is fine, does that mean then there's a conflict between Youtube and Chrome :confused-smiley-013

Enter chrome://flags in the address bar.

Press Ctrl+F to open Chrome's search box, and then type hardware-accelerated to find the hardware-accelerated video decode setting.
Click Enable to toggle it off.
Click RELAUNCH NOW to restart Chrome.

 

[Boozad]

I have an ecommerce website which was built approx 2 years ago. It is ASP apparently.
The company who built it were charging me £250.00 p.a. for hosting. The hosting cost was due for renewal tomorrow. Last Friday I got an invoice from a company I have never heard of for £1180.00 p.a. for hosting, and a demand that it was due within seven days.
Apparently the original company have gone into voluntary liquidation and the directors (and staff I understand) are now working for the new company. I spoke with a manager there and she basically said if you don't pay what we are asking we'll switch the website off.
Because of the way I have been treated and the exorbitant rise in the cost of hosting (approx. 380%) I am disinclined to pay them a fucking penny tbh.
Consequently I contacted a hosting company here in Ireland (a big outfit) about taking over the hosting of my site. After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing between the hosting company and the potential hosting company, I managed to get a list of what is required of their servers for them to take the hosting on. The new hosting company have now come back to say they will not be able to assist as it will require a developer to set their system up bespoke basically to ensure the site functions correctly. I'm at a loss as to what is the best course of action for me:
1). Pay them what they say and expect a bigger bill again next year.
2). Don't pay them and have my site shut down.
3). In which case I will need a new site building incurring more cost. (Wordpress this time?).
4). Try to find a developer who can do 'stuff' to get the existing site to work with a new host.
Any advice would be appreciated

Fuck them off and go with 123-Reg, that's who I had my E-commerce site with and they're excellent. Here's one I built for a mate's business, he's edited it loads since I built it so it's not how I designed it but you'll get the idea.

http://www.thebasicroamer.co.uk/

 

[Tom Hark]

Because my house has thick walls, part of it is a dead zone for wi-fi. The dead zone does, however, have a phone socket. Can I just bung another router on there, or isn't it that simple?

 

[leedswolf]

Because my house has thick walls, part of it is a dead zone for wi-fi. The dead zone does, however, have a phone socket. Can I just bung another router on there, or isn't it that simple?

Does the dead zone have a 230V socket?

 

[The Bear]

Yeah if you have a spare router you can set that up as another WiFi access point on the same network, or just buy a cheaper WiFi extender and plug that into the phone line.

 

[Tom Hark]

Does the dead zone have a 230V socket?

Yes, it's a proper living area.

 

[Tom Hark]

Yeah if you have a spare router you can set that up as another WiFi access point on the same network, or just buy a cheaper WiFi extender and plug that into the phone line.

Yes, I've a couple of routers knocking around. I might need to Google a walkthrough to set up the network, but that's good to know. Cheers.

 

[The Bear]

I did it with one of my old Netgear routers downstairs years ago. Can't remember what settings you change though.

 

[Tredman]

You can't use the phone line itself to extend. You need either a WiFi repeater (most routers don't do that) or an Ethernet cable connection between the two routers.

If you have the latter you just need to make the WiFi network has the same name on the new second router and turn off DNS on it. Ideally you would make sure your WiFi channels don't overlap too.

 

[Tom Hark]

Cheers. It's a big place. I think I need something called a mesh network.

 

[Tredman]

Any chance of running a cable? Mesh networks can be flaky and expensive if it's a bit place with thick walls.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

It depends on the quality of the stream; a Flash stream will be around 500-800Mb. Acestream will be more.

Ha ha being a toal dummy how do i tell the difference?