Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wow

2006-10-27 Thread Sean Miller
Somebody took a long time to say :- > Test what. I am on XP and the speed shows clearly enough. From 2000 to 1000 > is a drop in my view. > > > > We will see in I use a different router I guess. > I assume this was the relevant part of the post.. bloody hard to find, to be honest... what plan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wow

2006-10-27 Thread Ian
---Original Message--- From: Andy Date: 27/10/2006 18:46:46 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-UK] Wow On 27/10/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well my broadband runs at 2.3mbps and the borrowed router I tried > cut that speed in half so I don't know

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New boy.

2006-10-27 Thread Ian
15 min is one of the villages here about's I guess?       ---Original Message---   From: Adam Bagnall Date: 10/27/06 20:03:20 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] New boy.   -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1   Whoo, somebody near me. I'm about 15 min away from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Ubuntu and D-Link DWL-G122.

2006-10-27 Thread Andrew Jenkins
Alan Rogers wrote: > Andrew > > You missed a potentially important piece of information, being the > hardware revision. Petty, I know, but D-Link used three different > chipsets across the three hardware versions of this USB dongle! > > I have Rev B, which I believe is a Ralink chipset, and I could

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New boy.

2006-10-27 Thread Adam Bagnall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whoo, somebody near me. I'm about 15 min away from Bexhill when I'm not at uni. Ian wrote: > Bexhill on the South Coast. > > > > ---Original Message--- > > From: alan c > Date: 25/10/2006 21:47:23 > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Subject: R

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Great work

2006-10-27 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Jono Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work to everyone for the > LinuxWorld presence. I think it safe to say we rocked the place. Ubuntu > got that little bit better because of your great efforts. > > I can see that ubuntu-uk is becoming

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wow

2006-10-27 Thread Andy
On 27/10/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well my broadband runs at 2.3mbps and the borrowed router I tried > cut that speed in half so I don't know. I am behind a router and can achieve a speed of 2mbps (if the ISP is playing nice) What are you using to test your speed? Bit torrent downloads

[ubuntu-uk] Great work

2006-10-27 Thread Jono Bacon
Hi all, I just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work to everyone for the LinuxWorld presence. I think it safe to say we rocked the place. Ubuntu got that little bit better because of your great efforts. I can see that ubuntu-uk is becoming a great example of a LoCo team - everything I was ho

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wow

2006-10-27 Thread Ian
Well my broadband runs at 2.3mbps and the borrowed router I tried cut that speed in half so I don't know.         ---Original Message---   From: Sean Miller Date: 10/27/06 14:24:35 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wow   Ian wrote: > > I think the Router is my only way

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wow

2006-10-27 Thread Sean Miller
Ian wrote: > > I think the Router is my only way forward. It will have to do the > speed though so must chose carefully. > What sort of speed are we talking here? Most routers will do up to 8mbps or greater if you have more then I have no sympathy, lol... !! ;-) (potentially envious) Sean

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wow

2006-10-27 Thread Ian
Thanks Alan.   I think the Router is my only way forward. It will have to do the speed though so must chose carefully.   ---Original Message---   From: alan c Date: 27/10/2006 09:27:53 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wow   Ian wrote: >  Seems a long time ago I used

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB modem

2006-10-27 Thread Ian
Well thank you Neil and for the advice.  I was trying to find a way to transfer the saved text to XP because with Ubuntu open I cannot see the XP drive content to do a drop so now find Ubuntu will read my memory pen so I can use that.   Then if needed I can send a copy of the terminal or edit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LinuxWorld

2006-10-27 Thread alan c
Alan Pope wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:41:38AM +0100, Gary Kearley wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Great day out yesterday at LinuxWorld. It was good to meet some of you, >> even if it was quite briefly, it seemed rather busy there and the booths >> were pretty cramped. >> > > It was indeed a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LinuxWorld

2006-10-27 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:41:38AM +0100, Gary Kearley wrote: > Hi folks, > > Great day out yesterday at LinuxWorld. It was good to meet some of you, > even if it was quite briefly, it seemed rather busy there and the booths > were pretty cramped. > It was indeed a top couple of days. My legs a

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Ubuntu and D-Link DWL-G122.

2006-10-27 Thread Alan Rogers
Andrew You missed a potentially important piece of information, being the hardware revision. Petty, I know, but D-Link used three different chipsets across the three hardware versions of this USB dongle! I have Rev B, which I believe is a Ralink chipset, and I couldn't get this to work under Ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New boy.

2006-10-27 Thread Leon Barker
Dear Ian,   Welcome to ubuntu forum list. I know this isn't very helpful but you might want to consider getting a real ethernet modem/router, these are virtually trouble free to set up on any OS.   Leon  On 26/10/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron   I looked in the Synaptic dialog under N

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ship it...

2006-10-27 Thread Paul Sladen
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Sean Miller wrote: > http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu > Anybody know? [..] "either download or buy". Ship IT is for shipping the LTS (Long Term Support) versions, because the LTS version is where the /extra/ time, effort and polish has been spent. Another advantage

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ship it...

2006-10-27 Thread Stephen Garton
On 27/10/06, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the free CD "ship it" model to be withdrawn? > > http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu > > Could just be because it's "early days", but it's not saying "CDs aren't > available yet" but rather "either download or buy". > > Anybody know? AF

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wow

2006-10-27 Thread Sean Miller
alan c wrote: > btw you might like to consider replacing the usb modem with a > modem-router, which is a lot easier to configure and also will offer > much improved security over a usb modem. Some ISPs are now giving free > adsl modem-routers, not usb, because they are becoming much cheaper. > USB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wow

2006-10-27 Thread alan c
Ian wrote: > Seems a long time ago I used DOS. Will take a lot longer to get to grips > with code and where the heck things go in Ubuntu now I have became a lazy > XP user. LOL Be aware though - command line is very much NOT dos. The ascii characters you type are about the only similarity! Dos i

[ubuntu-uk] Ship it...

2006-10-27 Thread Sean Miller
Is the free CD "ship it" model to be withdrawn? http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu Could just be because it's "early days", but it's not saying "CDs aren't available yet" but rather "either download or buy". Anybody know? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB modem

2006-10-27 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 26/10/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well try as I may nothing I do will make my USB modem work. All your good > suggestions have fallen by commands not being there or just not working. Any > more suggestions gratefully received Hi Ian, If you reach a stage where a command is failing, it