Upgraded home broadband

After learning that Telenor were close to improving the broadband speeds I can expect in the very near future I swapped to using wi-fi on the old ZyXEL router (instead of running in Bridge mode to an Airport Extreme setup), which gave me and Telenor the opportunity to measure the local capability of DSL out here in the very lovely sticks.

I was immediately able to up my broadband deal for one that was slightly better on Upload speeds, without paying significantly more. Only snag was that the wi-fi connection first died on me, and then went up and down like a yo-yo. Turned out to be a problem related to the antenna, so I called Telenor's service dept., who were kind enough to send me a replacement in the form of the 2.4/5 GHz variety, which will handle the extreme speeds expected shortly.

It installed like a dream. Telenor is vastly better now at knowing all about me and my various hardware/contract deals, so a couple of minutes after plugging it all in it was ready configured. Just needed to change passwords and start the longer job of re-configuring wi-fi on the various components of my hi-fi system, which still require one to tap in everything on the remotes.

Nexus Player didn't see the 5GHz channel at first, but after a spot of searching on XDA I found exactly the answer needed, i.e. drop to channel 40, and up it came :)

So, everything is working superbly, no interfering channels to be found near me, and I am super happy with Telenor :-D

Sorting out local and cloud email links

Quite a while back I decided to forward all mail from my main 'gfraser@online.no' account to Gmail, where it was checked for spam and returned to the online.no account.

Yesterday I split the online.no and Gmail accounts on both mobiles.. one client for each service.

Today I went a step further, cutting the link From online.no to Gmail, but retaining the link from Gmail To online.no.. not sure what affect that will have on spam levels, which were terrible a few years back. We'll have to see ;)

What it means is that my Norwegian account is once again 'private'.

Had a hell of a job stopping the Samsung email client's notification squawk every time mail arrived. Eventually I found it was a matter of right clicking the account name and there lay yet another group of settings.. so peace has been returned :)