No it doesn’t. When tested, the Huawei CPE PRO 5G router (the only full-size 5G router currently available) together with a Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0002 Antenna simply decreased my 4G speeds by 95%. It basically did nothing to improve the signal past the speed obtained with no antenna at all.
Note that there’s no 5G signal out here so who knows if that would have worked. I was only testing to see how the 4G performance was, and it certainly didn’t work at all with this antenna.
Time to go back to my trusted Huawei B525 which has worked very reliably since I first installed it.
This week, the company that hiked my service charge by about £2k this year during a global pandemic, came out with a true example of top notch service.
I needed to get hold of a spare garage opener for the communal garage space. So I got in touch with Chamonix, and they kindly told me that they didn’t deal with garage openers and that I needed to contact the manufacturer instead. I followed their instructions, and the manufacturer thanked me for the email but said Chamonix was the only place I could get the fob from!
Back to Chamonix, and they told me that actually yes they had the keys in stock and that I just had to send them some money (£60 for a remote worth £20). I sighed, sent the payment via card, waited 2 days until they acknowledged and then said the key would be sent ‘tomorrow’.
Anyway, the next day came, and then at 5pm I received an email from them telling me that they actually didn’t have any keys in stock(!), and that I would be refunded.
So now I’m £60 down and still don’t have a key to access the property for which I’m paying a fortune in service charge.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Chamonix Estates is definitely the UK’s (if the not the world’s) worst building management company with a Google review rating of 1.4/5. Avoid them like the plague- or Covid19!
Yesterday I was so glad to see everyone in my local Tesco was finally wearing a face mask.
4 months after the point at which everyone logically should have been wearing them anyway, it’s only now that they actually have to. Better late than never I guess.
A few days ago one of my sonoff/ewelink light switches which I had programmed to switch on with the sunset (using IFTTT) stopped switching on… I soon received an email from IFTTT saying that Ewelink had disconnected, but could ‘easily be reconnected’.
After over 2 years of using this system flawlessly, this was a slight dagger in the back, especially as there was no notification from Ewelink regarding the new necessary subscription. Not happy.
While endlessly browsing for kid’s stuff over the pandemic I came across this fantastic concept which makes sanitising kids hands (while out and about) a tiny bit more fun for them. It’s a set of kid-style antibacterial gel holders which you can clip onto the kid or the kid’s bag. The ultimate pandemic accessory for kids?
After my wonderful wife’s full-on pandemic pregnancy, our new (post-) lockdown baby has been born! Pregnancy and birth during the pandemic was a struggle, but we got there, and we’re so happy with the result.
Let’s hope he doesn’t have to live through many more pandemics like this.
Will they be safe? The toddlers will. The teachers will be the ones in the risky position.
Will it encourage the spread of diseases etc? Of course
I assume the nursery will have a lot more regular hand-washing, smaller group sizes, and other small changes. But we can’t assume it’s going to be a perfect solution.
Last year’s impressive yet tragic film about how Brexit happened by Channel 4 was spot-on with its depiction of Dominic Cummings- the evil brains behind winning the Brexit vote. The cold, calculating, and non-human role was performed by Benedict Cumberbatch- well worth a watch:
