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Happy Birthday to 1701-e

Forum — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:00:13 GMT

:birthday: to 1701-e - from all the team at Cable Forum. :cleader:

Happy Birthday to mike @ home

Forum — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:00:06 GMT

:birthday: to mike @ home - from all the team at Cable Forum. :cleader:

The Narcissistic Personality Inventory Test

Dude111 — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:36:32 GMT

http://openpsychometrics.org/tests/NPI

I like how they dont block http!!

I got 22 <<>> It says the higher the # the more you are..

1G Youtube buffering issues

Corey N Georgie — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:40:49 GMT

Is anyone else having issues watching videos on Youtube?

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.26200.8457]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\my_be>ping www.youtube.com

Pinging youtube-ui.l.google.com [142.250.117.93] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 142.250.117.93: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=112
Reply from 142.250.117.93: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=112
Reply from 142.250.117.93: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=112
Reply from 142.250.117.93: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=112

Ping statistics for 142.250.117.93:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 16ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 18ms

C:\Users\my_be>tracert www.h
Unable to resolve target system name www.h.

C:\Users\my_be>tracert www.youtube.com

Tracing route to youtube-ui.l.google.com [142.250.117.93]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.5
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 80.255.194.46
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 22 ms 16 ms 13 ms 80.255.204.55
6 15 ms 15 ms 21 ms 142.250.160.116
7 19 ms 20 ms 18 ms 216.239.42.41
8 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms 216.239.56.206
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 19 ms 18 ms 18 ms um-in-f93.1e100.net [142.250.117.93]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\my_be>

General Ntlworld to gmail

Itshim — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:56:59 GMT

Not sure what to post this under. Used to use a ntlworld e mail. Still have but it is set to forward to a Gmail account. Don't know why I looked at it, but had a large number of emails I have never seen on Gmail . Most but not all are clearly spam . Does g mail spot and refuse them?

General Faults in my area.

philwhite100 — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:08:36 GMT

I appears there are ongoing Internet and TV faults in my area of Wigan WN2.
We had a total outage for about a day and that was about 3 weeks ago and the VM app shows it still ongoing and hopefully resolved by some time today.
However we are getting all the services without issue apart from a fluctuation in broadband speed. We are on the 1gb service but speedtest sometimes shows it as under 50 meg.
Rebooting the router sometimes helps though.

Three teens virtually get away with rape

Jaymoss — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:07:24 GMT

This makes me sick two 14 year olds and a 15 year old walked out of court with 11 convictions for rape after the judge says he does not want to "criminalise" them. I really hope something is done about this and this judge never sit for a rape trial again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2x7wxjego

General Virgin 360 Recordings question

D. Biggles — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:49:55 GMT

I've just given in and migrated to Virgin 360, using my old V6 box.
I know that the new product does not allow wishlists to be set up and I can only schedule recordings if there is an episode in the TV guide under the correct channel.

However, I had a go at doing this: where there are no 'new' episodes scheduled but where there are repeats still airing, I selected one of those and changed the criteria to 'new' episodes only. I got the message that there are no new episodes currently scheduled, but it indicated that these would be recorded when they became available.

Job done, or so I thought, but when I go into 'planned recordings' I cannot see those series links listed as they used to be with the V6 box.

My question is, is there a way to see what series links are in place for programmes where there is no upcoming episode in the guide?
If the answer is 'no' then this would also mean that when any current series finishes there will be no indication in the guide that an ongoing series link is in place. That seems nuts to me and I hope I am missing something!

VOD Sky on demand and subtitles

1701-e — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:20:11 GMT

Started watching Ponies on Atlantic last night from a recording. All good and subtitles fine.

Decided to watch further episodes on demand but sky haven't supplied subtitles which is rather annoying.

Why does this still happen?

Bear in mind that the series has already been shown in the USA.

Other shows are fine e.g. Task.

Five people arrested on suspicion of local election fraud offences

1andrew1 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:35:02 GMT

Will be interesting to learn more about this. I guess we all want to know which party those arrested were helping and if this will impact upon the upcoming by-election in Makerfield.

Quote:

Five people in Tameside have been arrested on suspicion of fraud offences, police say.

It follows the local elections in England earlier this month.

The five people – four men and a woman aged between 23 and 47 – were arrested at addresses in Tameside this morning, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has announced.

They remain in custody.

The force says that it received reports surrounding concerns about candidates within St Peter's ward in the days up to and following the election on 7 May.

GMP adds that it is investigating the process of how candidates were put forward and represented in the ward, and if this adhered to the relevant legislation and electoral procedures.

Officers are working closely with the Electoral Commission and local partners, they add.

https://news.sky.com/story/starmer-l...tions-12593360