22-03-2014, 09:34 AM
Hi,
Many thanks Lawrence for explaining PLT and SWL's. It's possible given the nature of this forum most other members would recognize these without a second thought but I'm mechanical man so many such abbreviations regarding electrical work go straight over my head; I am however up to speed on using a big hammer.
Thanks Refugee; update following once I reply to David.
Thanks David; yes it is brilliant to finally put this problem to bed allowing me to get on with my life. Hopefully I can settle down to the Lorch restoration but this morning it's very cold here so I'll wander into the garage a bit later. I'm pleased you enjoyed Oklahoma and agree with you when you say where did 54 years go?
Regarding the TP-LINK I bought last night Refugee a very strange thing happened to me at around 10 o'clock. I was kneeling by the Blu-ray disc player with the remote in my hand and completely lost the plot; I didn't know what I was doing in every sense of the word; I completely lost it? It was bizarre; I felt very strange indeed; then I asked Bron what I was going to do and she replied "you are removing the DVD from the player". then as if I had pressed my personal reset button I was normal once again but now I was suddenly very focused.
Normally I'm tired and ready for bed at that time of night but I suddenly got the urge to have a go with the Wi-Fi? The Virgin Media technician yesterday told me before he even installed the new router that sometimes the Wi-Fi can be tricky to set up; he connected everything and tried a number of times to connect the TV via Wi-Fi without success; the network was being displayed and everything else looked in order so he said play around with it but he also suggested using the wall plugs saying this would guarantee a good TV reception which I accepted; I've never been keen on people doing everything for me because I like to learn; he left me his contact details just in case of further problems so it wasn't a case of him trying top get away as quickly as possible.
I had been watching the technician whilst he was setting everything up and it must have registered with me and as I say I was now very focused; within a few minutes I had a message on the TV saying you have two minutes to press ? on the router; the router is located in darkness under my desk so a dash for the torch and I could not see the button on the router I was supposed to press; in fact no buttons at all; then I noticed one side had a strip with three logos so out of curiosity I pressed this and it moved so perhaps this strip was the button?
Suddenly the TV was Wi-Fi connected; WOW that was easy even for me so then I played around for an hour viewing furniture making videos on YouTube (Hands Cavan) then watched John Lennon's Imagine and finally found The Tommy Cooper show; as we watched Tommy the picture froze a number of times and was breaking up so I'll retain these wall plugs as a back up. I presume APPS are applications and a set of these were downloaded being programs like Netflix? I'm completely new to all this so it's a steep learning curve for me hence I'm trying to share my experiences because others will no doubt face exactly the same difficulties once they try Wi-Fi for the first time. Going to bed I felt very pleased but I'll never forget the feeling whilst I was kneeling down with the remote and losing the plot; it was only a few seconds but seconds free of interruptions?
I was up at 4am this morning with terrific pain in my right elbow once again; this is compounded by me sleeping on my right side; once up it eases; it can be troublesome whilst I work in the garage but not prevent me working; it's terrible though as I get out of bed so with my elbow problem and the constant fight with the weather my Lorch restoration is somewhat of a major challenge. I'm still breathing so the Lorch restoration is still ongoing.
Things are looking up?
Kind regards, Col.
Many thanks Lawrence for explaining PLT and SWL's. It's possible given the nature of this forum most other members would recognize these without a second thought but I'm mechanical man so many such abbreviations regarding electrical work go straight over my head; I am however up to speed on using a big hammer.
Thanks Refugee; update following once I reply to David.
Thanks David; yes it is brilliant to finally put this problem to bed allowing me to get on with my life. Hopefully I can settle down to the Lorch restoration but this morning it's very cold here so I'll wander into the garage a bit later. I'm pleased you enjoyed Oklahoma and agree with you when you say where did 54 years go?
Regarding the TP-LINK I bought last night Refugee a very strange thing happened to me at around 10 o'clock. I was kneeling by the Blu-ray disc player with the remote in my hand and completely lost the plot; I didn't know what I was doing in every sense of the word; I completely lost it? It was bizarre; I felt very strange indeed; then I asked Bron what I was going to do and she replied "you are removing the DVD from the player". then as if I had pressed my personal reset button I was normal once again but now I was suddenly very focused.
Normally I'm tired and ready for bed at that time of night but I suddenly got the urge to have a go with the Wi-Fi? The Virgin Media technician yesterday told me before he even installed the new router that sometimes the Wi-Fi can be tricky to set up; he connected everything and tried a number of times to connect the TV via Wi-Fi without success; the network was being displayed and everything else looked in order so he said play around with it but he also suggested using the wall plugs saying this would guarantee a good TV reception which I accepted; I've never been keen on people doing everything for me because I like to learn; he left me his contact details just in case of further problems so it wasn't a case of him trying top get away as quickly as possible.
I had been watching the technician whilst he was setting everything up and it must have registered with me and as I say I was now very focused; within a few minutes I had a message on the TV saying you have two minutes to press ? on the router; the router is located in darkness under my desk so a dash for the torch and I could not see the button on the router I was supposed to press; in fact no buttons at all; then I noticed one side had a strip with three logos so out of curiosity I pressed this and it moved so perhaps this strip was the button?
Suddenly the TV was Wi-Fi connected; WOW that was easy even for me so then I played around for an hour viewing furniture making videos on YouTube (Hands Cavan) then watched John Lennon's Imagine and finally found The Tommy Cooper show; as we watched Tommy the picture froze a number of times and was breaking up so I'll retain these wall plugs as a back up. I presume APPS are applications and a set of these were downloaded being programs like Netflix? I'm completely new to all this so it's a steep learning curve for me hence I'm trying to share my experiences because others will no doubt face exactly the same difficulties once they try Wi-Fi for the first time. Going to bed I felt very pleased but I'll never forget the feeling whilst I was kneeling down with the remote and losing the plot; it was only a few seconds but seconds free of interruptions?
I was up at 4am this morning with terrific pain in my right elbow once again; this is compounded by me sleeping on my right side; once up it eases; it can be troublesome whilst I work in the garage but not prevent me working; it's terrible though as I get out of bed so with my elbow problem and the constant fight with the weather my Lorch restoration is somewhat of a major challenge. I'm still breathing so the Lorch restoration is still ongoing.
Things are looking up?
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
