The Goggle Box Thread

[Deutsch Wolf]

I mean that *is* old fashioned, isn't it

If you saw someone in say, 2005 using a Walkman you wouldn't think it was commonplace.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Even the cowboy moved on from his ghetto blaster

 

[Tredman]

A student at the school I work at told me mp3s were old fashioned, mate....

Weeeeellll…

 

[lemonjelly]

Did you end up getting a new one then?

Thankfully managed to get the old one working again.

 

[lemonjelly]

I mean that *is* old fashioned, isn't it

If you saw someone in say, 2005 using a Walkman you wouldn't think it was commonplace.

Probably is tbf. My phone is pretty basic, plus I listen to a lot of bootlegs & odd stuff I download more often than standard albums or other stuff I could Spotify etc.

 

[SSB]

A student at the school I work at told me mp3s were old fashioned, mate....

I remember my first mp3 player. It had 128mb of memory!

 

[Paul]

I remember my first mp3 player. It had 128mb of memory!

My first computer Amstrad CPC 6128 had 128k of memory that's 0.128mb (ironically that's very similar to the amount of memory I have now ! )

 

[b3h]

I had to pay the internet bill out my paper round money. Them were the days

 

[Paul]

Your internet dropping out if somebody used the phone

 

[Tredman]

Man this looks so good

https://twitter.com/x/status/1631324554386903040

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Your internet dropping out if somebody used the phone

It still does in North Shropshire. My genuine current landline speed. Suffice to say it's not fit for purpose but I still have to pay for it as there is not 'phone only' package available.

 

[Kenny]

Where abouts in this fine County are you?

 

[wanderer89]

It still does in North Shropshire. My genuine current landline speed. Suffice to say it's not fit for purpose but I still have to pay for it as there is not 'phone only' package available.
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Have you looked into Airband?

 

[Tredman]

It still does in North Shropshire. My genuine current landline speed. Suffice to say it's not fit for purpose but I still have to pay for it as there is not 'phone only' package available.
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Can you get 4 or 5G? Can get an unlimited data sim from 3 and put in a router.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Openreach really should be actively dealing with speeds like that. Unfortunately you can't speak to them, only your ISP can, and it's a lottery whether anything actually gets sorted.

I was getting similar <1MBps speeds in my old house about 5-6 years ago, Plusnet did get in touch with Openreach and after sorting out some dodgy ancient wiring from the telegraph pole it was all sorted. Kudos to them. But equally you can end up in an infinite loop of the problem being passed very slowly from one to the other and nothing happens.

 

[Tom Hark]

I trailled a 3 mobile 4G broadband when I was temporarily without a fibre connection and it was pretty good. Couldn't quite manage TV Catch-up without buffering, but fine for computer usage. You can try it for free for 30 days. I had no problem returning mine.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Where abouts in this fine County are you?

Gonna swap gingerbread recipes ?

 

[Kenny]

Gonna swap gingerbread recipes ?

This your new go to joke/hard burn is it?

 

[Quirkafleeg]

This your new go to joke/hard burn is it?

Bloody hell. I'm only mentioning it because I'm interested.

 

[Kenny]

You lie