Category: Hardware
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Why does Microsoft Teams slow down when I share my screen? – A work around.
The traditional corporate laptop is an i5 with 8GB RAM. This works great for most applications except for intense video processing. Historically that was fine but now everyone is using Microsoft Teams users may have problems when sharing their screens. When you share the screen you increase resource use (CPU, Memory, Network) and this can…
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You can’t use old phones with Virgin Media Landlines
[Off topic 26/11/2024] – This page gets quite a lot of traffic so I though I would just add a quick warning about Virgin Media’s telephone sales practices. If you buy their service you will be called by their overseas sales centre and offered various offers. The sales offers are very complicated and often misleading.…
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How to get home broadband in 12 hours using Amazon and a mobile router
I have got my home broadband from PlusNet for over 20 years who have given me excellent service over that time. The original connection was over the BT copper line to the house (5MB max) and in recent years this was upgraded to Fibre to the Cabinet (~60MB). In the last couple of years Virgin…
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Buying a laptop to use with Teams
Like many other business users I am now using Microsoft Teams everyday and unsurprising sometimes my laptop runs slowly. When selecting devices for my clients my default specification has been i5 CPU, 8 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD. A typical user would only be using 50% of the devices resources with normal workloads and…
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IOT – A review of the Electric Imp
The Internet of Things (IoT) is basically IP connected devices sending data back and forth to servers in the cloud. Computers and mobile phones do this all the time so how is IOT different? IoT devices tend to be “appliances” that do one job well and contain micro-controllers not computers. The data they send back…
Dr James Bayley 