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Re: Tunnie's Eurotrip Diary
« Reply #30 on: 28 July 2007, 09:06:14 »
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Got a message from Tunnie yesterday, he has made it to Switzerland, and its 32C there. Senny coping well with heat and high speeds on the autobahns to get there.

He's off into the Alps today...

We all know how Tunnie drives.....does that mean the senny has been pushed to 50mph  ;D :D
Not necessarily. Apparently, I'm a bad influence on him according to his mum....   ....and the other day he was giving my MV6 some large at a shade under 140mph on our private track  :-?
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Re: Tunnie's Eurotrip Diary
« Reply #31 on: 28 July 2007, 09:08:01 »
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He doesn't seem to be very well connected. Has his wiring suffered some kind of failure?  ::)
He wouldn't believe me - he thought he would be able to pick up an open wifi in any street....
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« Reply #32 on: 28 July 2007, 09:14:35 »
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He doesn't seem to be very well connected. Has his wiring suffered some kind of failure?  ::)
He wouldn't believe me - he thought he would be able to pick up an open wifi in any street....

I said pretty much the same when I saw him.  Glad to see a pic and that he and the senny are getting on OK.
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Re: Tunnie's Eurotrip Diary
« Reply #33 on: 28 July 2007, 09:19:47 »
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He doesn't seem to be very well connected. Has his wiring suffered some kind of failure?  ::)
He wouldn't believe me - he thought he would be able to pick up an open wifi in any street....

I said pretty much the same when I saw him.  Glad to see a pic and that he and the senny are getting on OK.
And did he believe you, as he wouldn't believe me.  In Europe, consumer wifi is preconfigured to be fairly secure, just as is beginning to happen here.
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Re: Tunnie's Eurotrip Diary
« Reply #34 on: 28 July 2007, 09:49:10 »
I also told him and that was from experience when we drove around europe, the only Wifi I found was the police station in Bornio....

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Drove around all day in the alps yesterday, Senny ran fine. Had a hot start problem but fixed that.
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Re: Tunnie's Eurotrip Diary
« Reply #35 on: 28 July 2007, 09:50:31 »
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I also told him and that was from experience when we drove around europe, the only Wifi I found was the police station in Bornio....

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Drove around all day in the alps yesterday, Senny ran fine. Had a hot start problem but fixed that.
Is that a bird in the car  :o
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« Reply #36 on: 28 July 2007, 09:56:19 »
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He doesn't seem to be very well connected. Has his wiring suffered some kind of failure?  ::)
He wouldn't believe me - he thought he would be able to pick up an open wifi in any street....

I said pretty much the same when I saw him.  Glad to see a pic and that he and the senny are getting on OK.
And did he believe you, as he wouldn't believe me.  In Europe, consumer wifi is preconfigured to be fairly secure, just as is beginning to happen here.

Best bet is to pick on major hotel chains......but even then you have to park blooming close!
The other day i was connected to a large hotels network....I was in McD's carpark A4 Heathrow...right next door, parked up against the fence of the Hotel....and even then i kept loosing connection  :(
Could find about 1/2 doz of secured networks but only the one unsecured.

Last time i tried actually in Heathrow terminal.....i could get onto an unsecured network.....but it appeared they didnt have a DHCP server on the network, or if they did it wasnt issueing dhcp leases (maybe it had reached its max leases  :-/ )....coz i wasnt getting ip addresses so was as much use as a chocolate teapot!
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Re: Tunnie's Eurotrip Diary
« Reply #37 on: 28 July 2007, 09:59:54 »
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I also told him and that was from experience when we drove around europe, the only Wifi I found was the police station in Bornio....

Anyway, got another picture....



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Drove around all day in the alps yesterday, Senny ran fine. Had a hot start problem but fixed that.
Is that a bird in the car  :o

Only possibly of the feathered type  ;D :D
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« Reply #38 on: 28 July 2007, 10:02:05 »
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He doesn't seem to be very well connected. Has his wiring suffered some kind of failure?  ::)
He wouldn't believe me - he thought he would be able to pick up an open wifi in any street....

I said pretty much the same when I saw him.  Glad to see a pic and that he and the senny are getting on OK.
And did he believe you, as he wouldn't believe me.  In Europe, consumer wifi is preconfigured to be fairly secure, just as is beginning to happen here.

Best bet is to pick on major hotel chains......but even then you have to park blooming close!
The other day i was connected to a large hotels network....I was in McD's carpark A4 Heathrow...right next door, parked up against the fence of the Hotel....and even then i kept loosing connection  :(
Could find about 1/2 doz of secured networks but only the one unsecured.

Last time i tried actually in Heathrow terminal.....i could get onto an unsecured network.....but it appeared they didnt have a DHCP server on the network, or if they did it wasnt issueing dhcp leases (maybe it had reached its max leases  :-/ )....coz i wasnt getting ip addresses so was as much use as a chocolate teapot!
UK has loads of open ones, I think Tunnie was naively thinking the same for Europe.  Shutting down DHCP on open wifi is one extra protection layer ;)
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Re: Tunnie's Eurotrip Diary
« Reply #39 on: 28 July 2007, 10:04:22 »
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He doesn't seem to be very well connected. Has his wiring suffered some kind of failure?  ::)
He wouldn't believe me - he thought he would be able to pick up an open wifi in any street....

I said pretty much the same when I saw him.  Glad to see a pic and that he and the senny are getting on OK.
And did he believe you, as he wouldn't believe me.  In Europe, consumer wifi is preconfigured to be fairly secure, just as is beginning to happen here.

Nope - he did not!
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« Reply #40 on: 28 July 2007, 10:32:36 »
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He doesn't seem to be very well connected. Has his wiring suffered some kind of failure?  ::)
He wouldn't believe me - he thought he would be able to pick up an open wifi in any street....

I said pretty much the same when I saw him.  Glad to see a pic and that he and the senny are getting on OK.
And did he believe you, as he wouldn't believe me.  In Europe, consumer wifi is preconfigured to be fairly secure, just as is beginning to happen here.

Nope - he did not!
Bloody youngsters, always think they know best ;D
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« Reply #41 on: 28 July 2007, 20:35:44 »
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He doesn't seem to be very well connected. Has his wiring suffered some kind of failure?  ::)
He wouldn't believe me - he thought he would be able to pick up an open wifi in any street....

I said pretty much the same when I saw him.  Glad to see a pic and that he and the senny are getting on OK.
And did he believe you, as he wouldn't believe me.  In Europe, consumer wifi is preconfigured to be fairly secure, just as is beginning to happen here.

Best bet is to pick on major hotel chains......but even then you have to park blooming close!
The other day i was connected to a large hotels network....I was in McD's carpark A4 Heathrow...right next door, parked up against the fence of the Hotel....and even then i kept loosing connection  :(
Could find about 1/2 doz of secured networks but only the one unsecured.

Last time i tried actually in Heathrow terminal.....i could get onto an unsecured network.....but it appeared they didnt have a DHCP server on the network, or if they did it wasnt issueing dhcp leases (maybe it had reached its max leases  :-/ )....coz i wasnt getting ip addresses so was as much use as a chocolate teapot!
UK has loads of open ones, I think Tunnie was naively thinking the same for Europe.  Shutting down DHCP on open wifi is one extra protection layer ;)

But they advertise wifi points.....in fact i could see a sign that indicated a wifi point....bit pointless if they've shutdown the dhcp  ::)
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« Reply #42 on: 28 July 2007, 21:29:29 »
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Got a message from Tunnie yesterday, he has made it to Switzerland, and its 32C there. Senny coping well with heat and high speeds on the autobahns to get there.

He's off into the Alps today...

We all know how Tunnie drives.....does that mean the senny has been pushed to 50mph  ;D :D
Not necessarily. Apparently, I'm a bad influence on him according to his mum....   ....and the other day he was giving my MV6 some large at a shade under 140mph on our private track  :-?

Thats outrageous  :o You are a bad influence  ;D ;)
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Re: Tunnie's Eurotrip Diary
« Reply #43 on: 29 July 2007, 09:17:35 »
Greetings from Switzerland!

Just about to leave the site here and head for Lyon, not going to get a chance to do any of the big passes, have to head to France, the one into Italy is too far off course in the time we have  :'(

Senator running well, German roads did a lot of 110 crusing, so far learnt that germans like their diesels, and be manuals, here in Switzerland all the cars seam to be petrol, not diesel. Lots of tunnels, Senny went up some alpine passes no problems, even stop start traffic in a hot german motorwaz did not cause any problems.

Had one hot start issue, but fixed that, just unplugged the big loom connector in the bonnet, and put it back in again.

Think i will be comming back to Switzerland, the women here are just amazing!  :o If you know what i mean!  ;)

Will send more mms messages from France....

oh btw that aint a bird in the car, thats my mates!  ;D ;D
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Re: Tunnie's Eurotrip Diary
« Reply #44 on: 29 July 2007, 09:19:35 »
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Think i will be comming back to Switzerland, the women here are just amazing!  :o If you know what i mean!  ;)


James will be jealous ;)
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