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My nephew gave me his Sony phone when he upgraded a year ago. I'm not very familiar with what it can do, but I get by with messaging, Whatsap etc. Mostly I use the PC.

Recently our 12-year-old dog Blaze has begun to show signs of being scared when the phone pings. He immediately gets up and moves elsewhere. I know the pinging denotes something...

Dunno if this is the right place but here goes.
I'm looking to put a wifi camera in our field & need a power supply.
The camera needs 5v <100mW. Lidl have on sale a Lipo Powerbank 10,000mAh with usb outlet so presumably 5v.
My question is :- will this work & how long can I expect the Powerbank to last?
My calcs say 0.1w/5v =0.02A =20 ma so camera...

I have just heard that the funeral for my best friend in UK in a couple of weeks will have a live link. They said they will let me have the details in due course.
I have no idea how this works and don't want to hassle them for info at this stage so am trying to find out a bit of info myself in advance.

First, does anyone know how this works,...

For sometime now I have been looking for an outdoor security Camera. I bought one from Amazon (Reolink) about a year ago, it was a wireless camera with an attached solar panel, you could monitor with it from a PC, but I returned it to Amazon because we could not get push notifications back to the PC, so a little bit pointless. I have just had...

I recently bought a DVD from Amazon, but can’t get it to play on our ancient JVC player. I’ve tried playing it several times but on each occasion I get a display saying REGION CODE ERROR! Other DVDs play OK, so is this new one duff, or should I be doing something to sort it, if so what?
Syd.

What is your upload and download speed, according to this site; And where do you live?

My results are 34.1 Mbs download and 30.7 Mbs upload, in rural Brittany but in a town with fibre.

My oh is seeking to find a new VPN

Until recently she used to watch U.K. BBC TV, via Express VPN, but, it seems, this is no longer possible. She is currently trying to use Cyberghost and communicating with one of their helpers, Razvan Ungureanu, without a great deal of success. She is looking for something to tide her over for another month when...

More internet speed, not for me, for others, in the (near?) future. Engineers of University College London did it: a world record transmission rate of 178 terabits a second . My B&YOU (Bouygues) 4G connection was very fast last year, download speeds of up to 20 Mb/s. Not this year: frequent time-outs, loss of internet, very slow. Too many people...

We are away quite a lot and so rely on making the phone a hotspot, sometimes this works well and is fast but it varies even in the exact same location, last night it was worse than the old dial up we had years ago and this morning, it’s working just as fast as if you had a proper internet connection at the house, just wondering why? It’s nothing...

I'm looking to buy a camera to keep watch on/record our horses from the comfort of my bedroom .
Problem is the ideal camera position would be on the end of our crinkly tin barn or stable which is joined to the scullery before joining the kitchen, total distance about 18m from the house. I've a wifi extender in the kitchen but can't get a signal in...

Just watched Last Blood on no VPN needed great films free

Hi
I feel sure that our problem has no answer but thought I would give it a go as so many of you are really helpful:

I have a phone contract with Orange, two hours calls a month (more than I use) and data. There is an old smallish credit balance from the original transfer from a pay-as-you-go phone which will be used up as and when I make calls...

Does anybody still use Skyboxes ?

I have always had spellcheck when typing in Hotmail (Outlook as they now call it) and it was the same squiggly red lines that appear when I type a posting here, the dictionary has always been set for French which is where I need the most help especially with the accents.

Today when sending an E-mail I typed je m'excuse and the red line appeared,...

I started a new thread rather than overload the sticky at the top of this section of the forum but it contains a good synopsis of all my computer woes, links not opening, sites being plastered with adverts so that there is but a tiny bit left to read which keeps jumping around as the adverts reload, pages taking forever to load because of all the...

I think my 2009 Humax Foxsat HD recorder had a hard disk crash sometime yesterday. When I switched the TV to it I got a HDD is not formatted. Formatting will start message. There was no way to get past the message. A few internet checks and the only option seemed to be doing the formatting. Fortunately there weren't many recordings on the disk and...

If you are into Sci Fi a freebie series

On Iplayer I've watched series 1 and 2.

I hate to say it but so far The American military aren't coming across as being too good.

It's called Once upon time in Iraq if any one has Iplayer.

Quite disturbing

After watching series 1 of The Fall last week, Netflix is telling me it has detected I'm abroad and that series 2 may not be available in my region. It isn't. I tried Tunnel Bear VPN but Netflix detected it and told me to turn it off. Cheeky monkey.
Are there any work rounds I can try?

This has me stumped.

In my landline phone (Gigaset), I have stored all the names and numbers of friends, family and local services. If any of those call me, the phone displays Fred or Garage or whatever and I pick up the call - all others I ignore.

It's not working for my sister in Scotland, though. Her name/number is in the phone, I can use it...

Is anybody else in Brittany (or anywhere else in France) experiencing slow internet access with Orange ? For the last 48 hours Orange is very slow. I have checked my download speed and it is 16mb, so thats OK, but pages are taking an age to load - DNS resolution perhaps?

I have a large file stored on my I-Pad in WPS programme.
I am looking for a way to Select All Pages (100+) to enable me to transfer them to a folder on my Wordpress site.

Please can anybody inform me of the most expedient way of doing so ?

I have Windows 7 and wanted a post-it note type system with the possibility of an alarm, cos I'm not great at writing reminders in a diary or agenda, let alone remembering to look at them. I found 7 Sticky Notes , which would appear to do the job admirably.

The 2038 problem
Code is how the digital landscape is designed. It is the way time is kept in computers, so nearly every computer in history has had the capability of keeping time. It is used to develop websites, apps, cars, robots and most importantly, in this case, operating systems.

As computers were being developed, the operating system that...