With ADSL: broken waterproofing somewhere along the line, water gets into the cables or connections == broken while it's raining.

Then you call their customer support, tech comes out, it's not raining anymore and everything works, and the problem doesn't get fixed.

Exactly what I am suspecting! I called so many times: nothing found all works as expected.

As for the starlink: I noticed that clouds or weather ( rain snow ) does not have a true effect. Must be the frequency is not absorbed by the water in the air or similar effects. Only hard blocking with construction or big canopies of trees is struggling.

It's an interesting form of spam how theres a link for an online gambling site just inline in the text.

£2,589 for an all-inclusive 50-day bus-cruise, even today, doesn't seem that overly expensive. (~£50/day).

So it's not just inflation, it's "that used to be cheaper".

I guess on the flipside, travelling by plane in 1957 (or even 1974), would have been much more than £2,589.

About twice as much. https://www.indianairmails.com/ai-bombay-to-london.html 1948 price was £141 one-way. This likely did not change much in the early years.

> travelling by plane in 1957 (or even 1974), would have been much more [expensive]

Not to mention a lot more dangerous.

Hmm. A long trip by a 1957 bus vs. a 1957 airliner? It’s not immediately obvious what would be safer to be honest.

Sorry I was unclear, I mean 50s or 70s air travel compared to present day air travel. (Which on reconsideration might not be particularly relevant haha)

Lot of hijackings still to come in 1950...

Do you really think there are enough hijackings to meaningfully affect safety statistics?

Not very much but there were some years where hijackings were 5% to 10% of air travel deaths.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-fatalities-from-av...

The problem is that the suspension would not be great back then.

(some android phones: my Pixel can, Samsung can't, although it seems that other Samsungs do have it.)

I installed another app on my S10 to enable this. It's called "Wi-Fi Hotspot" and it works pretty well

It seems to be only on certain devices feature(?): on my Pixel it worked, Samsung phone just says "sorry, can't do that".

Antenna gain isn't everything: I've set up the LTE6 for people, and in some cases I was able to get more speed in the same location with the latest iPhone.

In locations where you're at the edge of coverage, and your phone is not getting anything at all, it's great.

I sometimes suspected that the modem in these LTE / 5G routers is less well tuned and tested with various network than what you have e.g. in an iPhone.

Of course it's faster!

The Mikrotik LTE6 device is a Cat.6 LTE device, so up to 300/50Mbits, and since some time ago, all iPhones are Cat.20 and 5G and all that stuff.

But that's not the only important thing. The frequency band support for the modem is very important. Not all networks nor even cell phone antennas work on the same frequencies, so even when connecting to antennas of the same company, depending on the antenna you connect, it'll have different bands enabled depending on the hardware or the connectivity they have there.

You have to check the specs for you modem [0][1] and see what bands are supported, what bands are supported in the antenna your connecting to [2]... Depending on the category of your device [3], and the channels that are allowed to be used at the same time, the congestion, the interference, and... it can happen than a consumer phone downloads faster than a dedicated industrial modem, if the available frequencies aren't the most favorable.

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  0: https://mikrotik.com/product/lhg_lte6_kit#product_specification
  1: https://www.apple.com/iphone/cellular/
  2: https://www.cellmapper.net
  3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-UTRA#User_Equipment_(UE)_categories

This is my experience as well. Unless you actually need a directional antenna, an iPhone will be faster and more reliable than dedicated hardware.

An Android port to iPhone hardware does actually exist (for iPhone 7): https://projectsandcastle.org/

Obviously not everything works, but someone did try.

It's also my experience that people who use the Airpods audio in meetings = poor sound, whereas when they switch to the Macbook, it's much better.

I think the Macbook does some more advanced beamforming stuff to filter out sound coming from other directions.

> I think the Macbook does some more advanced beamforming stuff to filter out sound coming from other directions.

It does, and that also gave the Asahi Linux team some serious headache when trying to get the microphones working on the ARM MacBooks - the team involved in that had to delve deep into DSP black magic to get usable sound working out of the three microphones [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461701

Unfortunately:

> this is a transmit-only proof of concept.

So a not-very-useful NIC for your Nintendo switch.

Yes: https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-faste...

> making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, according to a UBS study on Wednesday.