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Good loser · 03-04-2020 12:33AM

My cat starts patrolling the ditches this time of the year. They're common for a while and then they're not. Mind you haven't often seen him with one.

Rosahane · 03-04-2020 09:29AM

Good loser wrote: »

My cat starts patrolling the ditches this time of the year. They're common for a while and then they're not. Mind you haven't often seen him with one.

Probably hunting nesting birds, cats are indiscriminate killers.

whelan2 · 03-04-2020 09:48AM

Anyones internet gone really bad this last few days especially in the evening time?

Lady Haywire · 03-04-2020 09:58AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Anyones internet gone really bad this last few days especially in the evening time?

Mines never been great but was trying to use Zoom in the shed for a video yesterday & not a chance of it working. Was probably a bit optimistic of it working well anyway :P

carrollsno1 · 03-04-2020 10:00AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Anyones internet gone really bad this last few days especially in the evening time?

More than likely a higher demand for streaming services like netflix and the like during these times so that could be the cause.

emaherx · 03-04-2020 10:08AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Anyones internet gone really bad this last few days especially in the evening time?

No mines fine

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blue5000 · 03-04-2020 10:13AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Anyones internet gone really bad this last few days especially in the evening time?

I reckon the further out you are from the telephone exchange the worse it gets as all the houses nearer the exchange get priority to bandwidth.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 03-04-2020 10:27AM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

More than likely a higher demand for streaming services like netflix and the like during these times so that could be the cause.

Netflix has reduced their picture quality here to reduce demand on the internet, I think.

And if any of you are still getting Cloudflare messages when you try to load a page, that's partly due to demand on the internet.

emaherx · 03-04-2020 10:33AM

blue5000 wrote: »

I reckon the further out you are from the telephone exchange the worse it gets as all the houses nearer the exchange get priority to bandwidth.

They don't get priority, every one suffers some loss due to network load but the further you are out on a copper line (or the further you are away from a mast if wireless) then you already have much reduced speed compared to those nearer.

emaherx · 03-04-2020 10:42AM

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Netflix has reduced their picture quality here to reduce demand on the internet, I think.

And if any of you are still getting Cloudflare messages when you try to load a page, that's partly due to demand on the internet.

Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and Apple have all done similar, but the reductions are quite small so SD, HD and even UHD are still options if you had enough bandwidth to deal with UHD in the first place

Buford T. Justice XIX · 03-04-2020 10:53AM

emaherx wrote: »

Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and Apple have all done similar, but the reductions are quite small so SD, HD and even UHD are still options if you had enough bandwidth to deal with UHD in the first place

Will you switch off Disney+ and go do a bit of work now?:P

emaherx · 03-04-2020 10:59AM

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Will you switch off Disney+ and go do a bit of work now?:P

Nah, so much bandwidth here I'll just leave it on running with all of the other services, one for each screen in the house

patsy_mccabe · 03-04-2020 01:26PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

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Jeez, they'd let anyone on da telly now.

Lady Haywire · 03-04-2020 02:05PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Jeez, they'd let anyone on da telly now.

There was proof needed that Leitrim existed!!

_Brian · 03-04-2020 02:18PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

There was proof needed that Leitrim existed!!

Leitrim is just an imaginary place down there back of a wardrobe of some auld one in Arvagh.

Lady Haywire · 03-04-2020 02:32PM

_Brian wrote: »

Leitrim is just an imaginary place down there back of a wardrobe of some auld one in Arvagh.

Ah but we're safe

carrollsno1 · 03-04-2020 02:32PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

There was proof needed that Leitrim existed!!

Was at a table with a lad raving out here one day fully convinced Leitrim was made up because he never met anyone from there and if he did he never saw them again, ive had the same experience myself to be fair maybe ye keep better company.

Lady Haywire · 03-04-2020 02:54PM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Was at a table with a lad raving out here one day fully convinced Leitrim was made up because he never met anyone from there and if he did he never saw them again, ive had the same experience myself to be fair maybe ye keep better company.

We don't get out much :pac:

Rosahane · 03-04-2020 02:56PM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Was at a table with a lad raving out here one day fully convinced Leitrim was made up because he never met anyone from there and if he did he never saw them again, ive had the same experience myself to be fair maybe ye keep better company.

When we were kids we would spend a month of the summer in my mother's home in Cavan, Leitrim was well known to us because her cousin the late Ned Farrelly who was a GP in Ballinamore might call and would always give us ten bob each. That was a lot of goodies in the 1960's! We all thought everybody in Leitrim was wealthy.

Albert Johnson · 03-04-2020 03:15PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

We're not let out much :pac:

Corrected that for you.

Leitrim has become better known to the masses in recent years due to the influx of stag and hen parties converging on Carrick on Shannon every weekend. I'm sure I read a statistic that the population of Carrick rose by something like 2,000 people every weekend mainly consisting of the above parties. It's a fair achievement for what's a run of the mill smaller town in rural Ireland.

carrollsno1 · 03-04-2020 03:21PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

We don't get out much :pac:

Yea but when yere out yere out. One of the two that i did meet had row with his auld lad dosing cattle one day he stormed off thick as a ditch had a few pints and was in Sydney within a week.

Lady Haywire · 03-04-2020 03:26PM

Albert Johnson wrote: »

Corrected that for you.

Leitrim has become better known to the masses in recent years due to the influx of stag and hen parties converging on Carrick on Shannon every weekend. I'm sure I read a statistic that the population of Carrick rose by something like 2,000 people every weekend mainly consisting of the above parties. It's a fair achievement for what's a run of the mill smaller town in rural Ireland.

Carrick is avoided by a lot purely for that fact too. It can be a right pain at the weekend. Obv not at the moment though!

Albert Johnson · 03-04-2020 03:27PM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Yea but when yere out yere out. One of the two that i did meet had row with his auld lad dosing cattle one day he stormed off thick as a ditch had a few pints and was in Sydney within a week.

Leitrim is also leading the trend in social distancing measures for public transportation judging by the video emerging of the son brought home last week from the airport in a cattle trailer. I think the father and son in the driving test result video (an auld bitch of a woman) a few years back were also Leitrim men too.

carrollsno1 · 03-04-2020 03:30PM

Albert Johnson wrote: »

Leitrim is also leading the trend in social distancing measures for public transportation judging by the video emerging of the son brought home last week from the airport in a cattle trailer. I think the father and son in the driving test result video (an auld bitch of a woman) a few years back were also Leitrim men too.

Auld bitch of a woman, i introduced that to a few city boys vocabulary out here.

Albert Johnson · 03-04-2020 03:30PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Carrick is avoided by a lot purely for that fact too. It can be a right pain at the weekend. Obv not at the moment though!

I used to know all about it, Sunday night used to be more of a locals night at one stage as most of the "outsiders" had returned home. The current restrictions on socializing seem very draconian to me until I realized I don't really go out much anyways. I'd love to say I'm getting more sensible but probably just more unsociable.

Lady Haywire · 03-04-2020 03:33PM

Albert Johnson wrote: »

I used to know all about it, Sunday night used to be more of a locals night at one stage as most of the "outsiders" had returned home. The current restrictions on socializing seem very draconian to me until I realized I don't really go out much anyways. I'd love to say I'm getting more sensible but probably just more unsociable.

I second that. Can't remember when I was last out in the pub tbh.
A good book, fire lit, decent food & i'm happy. God I'm old before my time :pac:

Albert Johnson · 03-04-2020 03:39PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I second that. Can't remember when I was last out in the pub tbh.
A good book, fire lit, decent food & i'm happy. God I'm old before my time :pac:

+1 on that. I've started back reading recently and have just finished Under the Dome by Stephen King (definitely art imitating real life atm). Tonight at work would have been my main social outlet but even that's postponed for the foreseeable future.

Hard Knocks · 03-04-2020 03:43PM

Rosahane wrote: »

When we were kids we would spend a month of the summer in my mother's home in Cavan, Leitrim was well known to us because her cousin the late Ned Farrelly who was a GP in Ballinamore might call and would always give us ten bob each. That was a lot of goodies in the 1960's! We all thought everybody in Leitrim was wealthy.

They’re opening up the old narrow gauge line (Dromod to Belturbet) as a green way.
The first stage is underway
Worth a trip for you when it’s open

Rosahane · 03-04-2020 05:21PM

Hard Knocks wrote: »

They’re opening up the old narrow gauge line (Dromod to Belturbet) as a green way.
The first stage is underway
Worth a trip for you when it’s open

Thanks for that, will definitely visit it.

148multi · 03-04-2020 06:49PM

Rosahane wrote: »

When we were kids we would spend a month of the summer in my mother's home in Cavan, Leitrim was well known to us because her cousin the late Ned Farrelly who was a GP in Ballinamore might call and would always give us ten bob each. That was a lot of goodies in the 1960's! We all thought everybody in Leitrim was wealthy.

Well there is more millionaires per head of population in Leitrim than any other county, due to them saving up for the All Ireland ðŸ˜

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