| daftykins | well my pal's Zen fibre just got upgraded today | 01:19 |
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| daftykins | https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/bfe8c3c1-0ed7-4d35-960f-51770a0dfd34 | 01:19 |
| daftykins | one quick tweak to pfSense and i'm seeing full speed | 01:19 |
| diddledani | yowza | 01:21 |
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| penguin42 | daftykins: Not bad! | 01:33 |
| penguin42 | diddledani: How you cookin'? | 01:34 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: I'm surprised for fibre it's so asymmetric | 01:34 |
| daftykins | it's because of that GPON thing i linked a while back | 01:34 |
| daftykins | you only get a slice of what reaches a neighbourhood | 01:34 |
| penguin42 | ah | 01:35 |
| daftykins | makes me wonder how far and wide a given slice reaches though, he told me he won't tell anyone on his neighbourhood watch type online group to get FTTH in fear of it influencing his service xD | 01:36 |
| penguin42 | oh it's terrible mate, dont touch it, especially when I'm using it... | 01:37 |
| daftykins | :D | 01:37 |
| daftykins | "stick to your virgin media, it's the only game in town, honest" | 01:38 |
| diddledani | there we go. I'm now running thelounge instead of paying for irccloud <3 | 01:44 |
| daftykins | think a pal took that for a spin | 01:45 |
| diddledani | I've also dropped my old liberachat account and reregistered because the old one was on my deadname | 01:45 |
| daftykins | sounds like a Friday night of progress! | 01:46 |
| penguin42 | speedtest is showing me 92.5/20.91 now on my virgin; it makes me wonder if something somewhere is on 100mb - but I thought I was on gig everywhere | 01:47 |
| daftykins | ooh time for some 2am sleuthing! | 01:49 |
| daftykins | :D | 01:49 |
| penguin42 | hmm no, I must finish my reading of the solar quote I've got | 01:51 |
| daftykins | ooh | 01:52 |
| penguin42 | it's hard being a geek; I've spent hours reading it, following links, checking out the home asistant stuff for the quoted inverter, reading the patent for the optimiser | 01:52 |
| daftykins | i had a totally out of the blue call from an elderly couple client earlier this week, she had me talk to a solar installer who was trying to get their equipment online | 01:52 |
| daftykins | they have a large property with other structures off from the main house so i had no idea where he'd even put anything | 01:53 |
| penguin42 | it looks like some have ether, but most are wifi | 01:53 |
| daftykins | are they using micro-inverters on each panel so that one getting obscured by even something as small as a pole shadow doesn't take the whole array down? | 01:53 |
| penguin42 | some have Lora! | 01:53 |
| daftykins | i was shocked when i learnt that that can happen, saw it on Dave Jones youtube - (EEVBlog) | 01:54 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Their suggestion is to use something inbetween by a company called TIGO; TS4-O | 01:54 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: you still end up with DC from theroof; but they upconvert to a single DC bus voltage | 01:54 |
| penguin42 | the problem is, anything like that is going to nuke my dads amateur radio | 01:55 |
| daftykins | interesting | 01:55 |
| daftykins | ooh that would be awkward | 01:55 |
| penguin42 | so, no optimisers thanks | 01:56 |
| penguin42 | even though the most likely form of shade is his aerial tower !) | 01:56 |
| penguin42 | the bigger problem we really have is an awkwardly shaped roof | 01:56 |
| daftykins | that installer guy said something to me about trying some TP-Link booster crap, i said lol please don't put junk in, i only just put in a Ubiquiti system recently | 01:56 |
| penguin42 | well most of them do modbus over rs485 as well if you look closely enough :-) | 01:56 |
| daftykins | he just asked me if there was cabling to anywhere close, i said yes but in use with an old phone system so he'd have to run something new, then he gave up and thanked me - heh | 01:57 |
| * penguin42 is a bit surprised the quotes he has are not higher, but as I say we're limited in the number of panels we can fit on the south side | 01:58 | |
| daftykins | so, is there really sun up north? ;) | 01:59 |
| penguin42 | less | 01:59 |
| penguin42 | I mean, less enough to make it questionable depending on the spec | 02:00 |
| penguin42 | Manchester seems doable | 02:00 |
| daftykins | nifty stuff | 02:00 |
| penguin42 | I've got a quote for about £4k that might pay itself back in 3.5 years | 02:02 |
| penguin42 | that's without battery; with battery the quote is about 9.5k and is currently taking longer to pay back | 02:12 |
| daftykins | ah of course, that makes sense | 02:13 |
| penguin42 | well, maybe - I mean the battery lets you actually use more of the captured energy, where as at best you get less doing export charges; so it's not impossible that it might pay back in similar times - but the batteries are expensive | 02:14 |
| daftykins | i wonder what operating life people tend to get out of battery storage | 02:15 |
| penguin42 | so far, in cars they seem to have worked out better than expected | 02:16 |
| daftykins | i had best hit the hay, going to put a new outdoor phone line in at a client's tomorrow to redirect it into the new network cabinet :D | 02:19 |
| daftykins | g'night all \o | 02:19 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: I mean the battery pack one company is selling is listing a design life of 15+ years and they're quoting the savings over 25 years! | 02:23 |
| davef | Cheers! 🍻 greetings from a pub in Montreal | 02:38 |
| daftykins | penguin42: impressive battery life :D | 20:07 |
| daftykins | well, 25 would be a nice minimum expectation really | 20:08 |
| * zxmpi wonders can i connect my psion using lithium batteries to my nokia 3310 to irc... :-P | 20:26 | |
| daftykins | ran out of daylight in the end attempting to put a new phone line cable to join from the outdoor one at a clients today | 20:46 |
| daftykins | at least it's in place, just been doing some 'homework' to refresh my memory on which colours denote the exterior line, white and orange is the answer! | 20:46 |
| penguin42 | there's some consistency? | 20:53 |
| zxmpi | you're supposed to get a cable with all wires the same colour for the next guy :-P | 20:54 |
| daftykins | weeeeell, nope xD there are too many joins there and they kept changing colour | 20:55 |
| daftykins | once i'm done it'll be white and orange straight through from the ground to the filtered master, then the conventional blue and white with blue to sockets | 20:56 |
| daftykins | also the spider i found in the join box outside says hi - https://i.imgur.com/f30vx3H.jpg | 20:56 |
| daftykins | i may have evicted it | 20:56 |
| penguin42 | oh yes, you wouldn't want it spying on your data | 21:05 |
| daftykins | there's only room for one web, buddy! | 21:06 |
| zxmpi | pity, you never know when you'll need a pro web developer next | 21:08 |
| daftykins | i no longer know a trustworthy one with diddledani out of the game :( | 21:11 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: I know a pro php one if you need one | 21:21 |
| daftykins | hmm nah, no active tasks at the moment thankfully! | 21:22 |
| davef | Not totally shocking, courier couldn't deliver a package of two iPads (presents for the kids) | 21:26 |
| davef | Probably already stolen | 21:26 |
| daftykins | D: | 21:27 |
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