Stewart's Blog - 10/06/2010
Posted by Stewart Baker on Thursday, June 10, 2010
Hi all,
I really can't imagine that there will be many entries on this Blog as I have never really been that much of a diary keeper. But in the spirit of thing's I thought I would at least start one off.
The reason for the web site redesign is that we were rather bored of the slow internet connection speed we had. It wasn't really the fault of our ISP, but just the distance we are from the exchange. Then along came BT INFINITY, their new Fibre service.
We used to struggle to get a 500kb service, but now we are fortunate enough to have the Fibre distribution cabinet at the end of the road and we get the full 40mb service. The conversations with BT said that they were offering 21mb and the engineer who installed it did say that he had never seen an online checker go above 20, but I personally observed the readings on his handheld line checker that he plugged in and we are indeed getting the full 40mb service (although only showing 21mb on the online checkers). Having said that I would really debate that most people will notice any difference between 4mb and 21mb anyway, let alone 40mb. I'll tell you what though, loading the pictures up for the Family Snaps page was sure quick. NICE!!!!
With the swap over I lost the web space that I had. So have found Yola as a free webspace provider. Obviously they want you to subscribe to a better package, but I thought i'd give the basic 'free' package a go. It's a little restricting, but to be honest I have been quite impressed. It gives me about 1gb storeage on this site (and I can have upto 5 of them) and I am only around 30mb in so far. So that's not bad at all really!
(btw - I have still got my own domain registered and pointing it at Yola / BT so the WWW and email addresses have not changed)
Anyway. Hope you enjoy looking around and we'll speak soon :)
Stewart
I really can't imagine that there will be many entries on this Blog as I have never really been that much of a diary keeper. But in the spirit of thing's I thought I would at least start one off.
The reason for the web site redesign is that we were rather bored of the slow internet connection speed we had. It wasn't really the fault of our ISP, but just the distance we are from the exchange. Then along came BT INFINITY, their new Fibre service.
We used to struggle to get a 500kb service, but now we are fortunate enough to have the Fibre distribution cabinet at the end of the road and we get the full 40mb service. The conversations with BT said that they were offering 21mb and the engineer who installed it did say that he had never seen an online checker go above 20, but I personally observed the readings on his handheld line checker that he plugged in and we are indeed getting the full 40mb service (although only showing 21mb on the online checkers). Having said that I would really debate that most people will notice any difference between 4mb and 21mb anyway, let alone 40mb. I'll tell you what though, loading the pictures up for the Family Snaps page was sure quick. NICE!!!!
With the swap over I lost the web space that I had. So have found Yola as a free webspace provider. Obviously they want you to subscribe to a better package, but I thought i'd give the basic 'free' package a go. It's a little restricting, but to be honest I have been quite impressed. It gives me about 1gb storeage on this site (and I can have upto 5 of them) and I am only around 30mb in so far. So that's not bad at all really!
(btw - I have still got my own domain registered and pointing it at Yola / BT so the WWW and email addresses have not changed)
Anyway. Hope you enjoy looking around and we'll speak soon :)
Stewart