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tahir

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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 9:57 am Post subject:
Hmm, looks good Lozzie, what is it?

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 9:58 am Post subject:
It is a ROUTER!!

jema
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 10:03 am Post subject:
and much more fun they are to

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 10:16 am Post subject:

Lozzie wrote:

It is a ROUTER!!

That looks a lot better than what Jema sent me, can I upgrade to one of those please?

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 10:54 am Post subject:
How come a computer router is pronounced roooter And a carpentary one is pronounced rauter, or is it just that I learnt that prononunciation from watching new yankee workshop a few too many times?

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 11:01 am Post subject:
A computer ROUTER is based on the word Route - i.e. path to travel -"Take the shortest route!" A carpenter's ROUTER is based on the word Rout - i.e. grub up, dig out - "Rout out the loonies!" Here endeth the semantics lesson. Where's my anorak gone?

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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Location: Derby

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 11:21 am Post subject:

Lozzie wrote:

A computer ROUTER is based on the word Route - i.e. path to travel -"Take the shortest route!"

A carpenter's ROUTER is based on the word Rout - i.e. grub up, dig out - "Rout out the loonies!"

Here endeth the semantics lesson. Where's my anorak gone?

Of course! Thanks

and here you go...

mrutty

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 9:57 pm Post subject:

ele wrote:

How come a computer router is pronounced roooter

And a carpentary one is pronounced rauter, or is it just that I learnt that prononunciation from watching new yankee workshop a few too many times?

Nope in the States they are both rauters. Most amusing when the Yanks some over and don't understand why all the IT guys are on the floor wetting themselves.

Of course having an Ozzy office means that when I say rooter they wet themselves and it's ruder.

mrutty

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 10:09 pm Post subject:
In case I forget https://www.smoothwall.org/

N.V.M.

Joined: 05 Feb 2005
Posts: 207
Location: British Columbia,Canada,eh!

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 10:19 pm Post subject:
there's a good chance that the power supply/transformer is the culprit and not the router itself. the specs should be on the transformer, something like 5 volts/5 amps. a simple test with a tester will tell you and all you'll need to replace is the transformer itself.

Mat S

Joined: 07 Nov 2004
Posts: 282
Location: Leicester

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 10:51 pm Post subject:

mrutty wrote:

In case I forget https://www.smoothwall.org/

Marvellous software, kept me safe for a few years now. Reboots only due to power cuts or software updates which are about annual now. I take that as a sign of a stable secure product.

9:51pm up 78 days, 2:21, 0 users, load average: 0.62, 0.22, 0.06

on a P200.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 06 11:51 pm Post subject:

mrutty wrote:

ele wrote:

How come a computer router is pronounced roooter

And a carpentary one is pronounced rauter, or is it just that I learnt that prononunciation from watching new yankee workshop a few too many times?

Nope in the States they are both rauters.

Bizarre American pronounciation here.
As a noun, its "root", as in Route 66...
but as a verb its pronounced "raut", eg "for my flight to Paris, France, can you raut me so that I have a 24 hour stopover in London?"
However, the box we are discussing, is a box that "rauts" your traffic to the net, so, in the US of A, it is indeed called a "rauter".

But I wonder why it isn't Raut 66?

N.V.M.

Joined: 05 Feb 2005
Posts: 207
Location: British Columbia,Canada,eh!

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 06 2:17 am Post subject:
because you say aluminium

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91ï¿½ N

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 06 10:04 am Post subject:

On a related issue ...

My home broadband connection has gone screwy! I normally get a fairly reliable 256 download, 512 upload but over the weekend that has gone to 256 upload and about 20-40 download

(which is pretty close to unusable

). The weather's been a little damp and I've experienced a few brownouts over the w/e which left me needing to reboot the router. Anyone out there know why it should be doing that and what I should be looking at to fix this? If it was external I'd expect it to affect both upload and download speeds, but I've pretty much eliminated everything internally.

On a related unrelated issue routers (rauters) are much more fun than routers (rooters) - maximum noise and sawdust to work ratio of any of the power tools I play with

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45723
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 11:21 am Post subject:
One tip, make sure you're not trying to connect a DSL/Cable router to an ADSL connection, took me several hours yesterday to work that one out

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