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The Ocular 22kW charger on Bunnings marketplace, sold by EVSE Australia, is $895. For some reason Bunnings has put the name in the headings…

My wife has lots of clothes that cannot go in the dryer. So they get hung out in the laundry, and the dehumidifier comes on when there is…

Had a Samsung heat pump AI dryer for a few years and it is great. It struggles with drying large double sheets when they just ball up, but…

Service NSW rego check will give the last year or two of rego values that were entered with the registration renewal.

OK - so the wiring is suspect. Patch cables don't often fail, but test each of them as working directly between the laptop and the Telstra…

Often if you pull off the cover of the outlet at each end, if the sparky was good they'll have written which one connects where. Telstra…

From the same ACMA link - "A citizens band (CB) radio is an alternative to a 2-way radio. Anyone in Australia can use a CB radio that…

That's heavy fines if you are caught actively transmitting on private frequencies. Baofeng radios are not preprogrammed with the encrypted…

I thought that almost every car insurance PDS requires the person taking out the insurance to never admit liability. It is a condition of…

So for less cost that 2 of these batteries, you could buy a new photoelectric smoke alarm from Bunnings with a 10 year lithium battery that…

OK, that sounds OK. Hopefully 'disabled' means they were physically disconnected from the wires that come into the first point so they…

Even if there are other cables still running on phone outlets around the house, then can also have a small negative effect on the signal…

I think (only roughly) that should put your distance to the the FTTN node at around 1000 meters, unless there is something else with poor…

If you are on Fibre to the Node (FTTN), have you gone through all the local checks on wiring and with NBN to ensure you've got the best…

Australians voted Liberal/National who made NBN what it is today. Democracy in action... Starlink should be no more difficult to connect to…

https://www.amazon.com.au/TENAVOLTS-Rechargeable-Pre-Charged-Batteries-Constant/dp/B07HQ7QV7W There are a bunch of AA sized lithium…

Of course, this is all ignoring the option of getting a genuine network cabling company to test the wall cabling with suitable testing…

OK, so that AX6000 has one 2.5Gbps port adaptive to either WAN or LAN, the one other 1Gbps adaptive WAN/LAN port, and two other 1Gbps LAN…

Running out of options... "I have a 2.5G Router and fible plan of 1000/1000". Do you have a link to the page for this Internet plan? Test…

Ethernet auto-negotiation starts when the computer and network router/switch are connected to each other with a cable. They each start…

Here is another fairly detailed description from Intel of how to work through diagnosing why cables might be limiting the negotiated…

Here is a page about how to show what a Windows computer has auto set its network speed to when negotiating with the network switch/router…

The difference in cables from Cat 5, Cat 5E, Cat 6 etc is rather analog to do with cross talk, shielding, length, wire diameter, solid vs…

While it isn't a smart device, I bought a timer off eBay that runs for 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 hours. I have the portable tool battery chargers…

If you go to your local Bunnings, they have lots of opened boxes to use at the front. You may be lucky and able to just take some to fit.

https://www.packsend.com.au/packing-solutions/boxes-cases-crates/

I considered going into more details about the different types of USB dongle that can do mobile 4G or 5G, or the tethering over USB or WiFi…

It doesn't do mobile Internet - WiFi, ethernet or USB tethered. https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt300n-v2/

OK, so FTTP is like this…

NBN's box goes on the side wall. They don't put it in the middle of the house. There are several types of NBN. What sort do you have? FTTN,…