Data downloads at this public wifi hotspot are coming down at between 1.8 & 1.9 MBps, or ⅓ of my home FTTN connection speed.
Large updates needed for 2008 MacBook Pro I keep at my Mum's place. I forgot to bring the Lumia 1520 with lots of data on its 3G/4G plan.
So I'm parked outside the Post Office, beside a public phone that incorporates a wireless hotspot. Data consumed here is automatically billed to & subtracted from my home broadband data allowance.
Very handy for travelling.
Users of this network who sign up for this "Telstra Air" service automatically emit both a Telstra Air & a Fon network wireless hotspot from their home routers for visitors to use. Such visitors also have to be Telstra Air/Fon subscribers. Hosts only supply the wifi connection, there's no extra data consumed. Data usage is at the visitors' expense.
One of Mum's neighbours is a Telstra Air user, but their network is just
a bit too far away to connect reliably, hence my visit to the public hotspot.
Silly fellow at the Mac User Group meeting lost his iPhone today. Didn’t have Find My iPhone activated. Tried calling it but no-one could hear it ringing.
He reported back recently that there several missed calls on it when he found it in the car: he never brought the thing into the meeting venue at all!
@gtwilson How little? My own figures as a result of blood tests yesterday are 97 grams per litre, 130 grams per litre is considered the desirable minimum with an upper healthy limit of 180.
I am anaemic, and have extensive medical history of being so. Iron tablets have helped thus far but now I’m waiting on a busy hospital to contact me re an appointment date & time for an iron infusion.
I’ll also get a colonoscopy/endoscopy done.
// @larand
@whoisashygirl Not involving coffee. ALDI’s Salted Caramel Milk. They do Iced Coffee (plain); Iced Coffee (Espresso); Chocolate; Mocha; Strawberry & the foul salted caramel muck.
Today I learned that in order for a Thunderbolt 3 cable to be able to pass 100 watts of charging power, transfer files at 40 Gbps and transfer via USB 3.1 at 10 Gbps, it’s rare for that cable to exceed 0.5 metres in length. Apple sells one that’s 0.8 m & can perform at the above speeds. Darned thing costs AU$59.
The 2-metre USB-C cable used to charge a Retina MacBook Pro can only sync at USB 2.0 speeds. It can handle 100 watts of power though.
If you ever thought the Android market for phones was fragmented, then that for USB-C is even worse.
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Viva la FirstClass!
Never again. NEVER. Salted caramel may have a place in ice cream or desserts or chocolates but it just isn’t appropriate as a milk flavouring additive.
Vile. Far too much salt & nowhere near enough caramel.