Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Couldn't miss out on the sport Maggie, that's 90% of my Sky usage. Whilst I could get to the pub to watch the football, with a crowded bar, I never had Sky. Now can't get to the pub so it has to be Sky. Normal Sky has no affect on download and when using the Sky 'On Demand' download service even BT has a chart to show you the size, in MB, of downloading programs. Just checked yesterday's download figure with BT and they show me using 2.64GB and other than the normal 'surfing' - fb -etc I never requested any music; videos etc. etc. I would be surprised if BT ever gave me a detailed breakdown of a downloads, just over a certain size like 500mb would do, but I will persevere for a while but will probably have to give in the end and go unlimited!

David Holland, Toby Twirl singer, just messaged me - Toby Twirl played the Club Domino December 31st 1968.

Symptoms - as far as I can see, having gone through all the topics and settings on the BT Home Hub 5 Manager, and made what updates I think will not lock me out of my WiFi world. For my benefit the WiFi world is a boon, without going into specifics a world without cables to trip over and units to get down to (never to get up again) is my world! Since my first notification, from BT, iro me reaching my monthly 20GB download limit I do daily checks and I believe I am now secure from 'piggy backers'. My package with BT is :- Unlimited Anytime Calls - Inclusive calls to UK landlines and half price calls to UK mobiles at anytime - My Broadband 20GB BT Infinity 1. Within the BT Home Hub Manager screens I have checked the SETTINGS etc use the BT help scripts:- 'To prevent unauthorised access to your Hub's settings, BT Hub Manager is password protected. To change your Hub default settings you'll need to log into in BT Hub Manager by entering a password. On first use you'll need to enter your Hub's 'Admin password' (it's on the Hub settings card), then click the 'OK' button on this page.' BT Wi-fi Status: Active - Wireless network/SSID: BTHub5-9PMX - Wireless interface type: 802.11 b/g/n (up to 150 Mb/s) Security: WPA2 Only (Recommended) - Channel selection: Automatic (Smart Wireless) When I first checked through the Home Hub Manager screens I came across this dialogue and a 'flow' diagram of the wireless devices acessing the Hub were given. From the devices I identified all the IP addresses as my families devices - Windows phone - Sky On Demand - Grandson ipad/tablet (for school homework). Now the flow diagram shows my PC as the only device and this part of the screen display:- "Home Network - Devices - The diagram below shows all the devices that are connected to your BT Home Hub. Click on the device name to view and edit its settings or to remove it from the network." Naturally no supplier is going to say in it's blurb to it's customers that it gets hacked. BT blurb with the Home Hub Manager says :- Wireless - safety and security You might wonder what's to stop other people tuning into your wireless network. After all, your personal data is being sent on radio waves in the same way as a radio station sends a signal. The answer is that your Hub has an in-built security system that scrambles the signal it sends. It does this with an encryption code, so the signal doesn't make any sense to other computers. We then give you a unique code - called a wireless key - to enter into your computer. This means you're the only one who can pick up your Hub's signal. This keeps your data safe at all times. WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) – Extra Strong. Used by new computers Since I did my checks and changes etc. after spending 20 mins discussing my concerns with BT operative my usage is slowly getting back to what it was with the Home Hub 2 = average 7.3GB a month - but I will be checking daily for the rest of this month and make decisions as and when necessary. The current daily usage monitor is showing my average GB download as 8.67, this includes the last months 20.56, but just today it actually displayed a reduction in usage:- Checked 08/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct You have used 3.84 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.16 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Checked 09/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct You have used 4.4 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 15.6 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Checked 10/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 09 Oct You have used 3.78 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.22 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. IT's GONE DOWN If you can see anything in the above that requires further checking or changes with in the Hub Manager I will have a look. Good job I'm retired, would never of had the time to do this when 3G was in control - garden, golf and gurgling ale! Thanks

Tartan gets my vote. Never suffered from headaches, then and now and in between, apart from the time I drank Tartan - probably the Black Bull or The Dun Cow. Couldn't get past the first moth full with Guinness and now I drink it regularly. Started in 1988 when we used to fly home from London on a Friday Night at the end of the working week. Heathrow lounge where the choice was down south 'flat warm bitter' (probably Double Diamond) or Guinness - soon got a taste for it.

From a Sixtownships History Group member :-

Extract from Sixtownships posting, contributor's name first:- Jan Hill - Dave Berry, Norman Collier. George Barnett - freddy and the dreamers, the animals Lynn Bramley - always remember lulu been there June Nichol - I saw Gene Pitney at the domino Alan Maddison - Applejacks,(song Tell me when) Leapy Lee (song Little Arrows was his hit), unfortunately seen them both. One hit wonders !!! Lyn Nicholson - Remember going to see The Tremeloes definitely at The Domino x Steve Davies - Love Affair Norma Agnew - The searchers Desmond decker and the aces mac and Katie casoon Hermans hermits - I also remember there was a female topless group on we were asked to take the big whiskey bottles down cos they were soiling the view for them standing at the bar the drummer was very popular. I worked there for a few years. I remember going in one night and this little man was walking around wearing a fur coat I said ti the rest of the bar staff who brought the monkey the manager George England said in a very stern voice that Norma is Del Shannon. Oops. Jackie Hoult - I saw Gene Pitney at domino with Lynn Taylor, June Bingham and Thora Cole. In front row. Recall act before him was Dickie and Dotty! What a laugh they were? Charlie Crisp - The Herd.... Doug Ramsey - Frankie Vaughan,Joe Brown,The Caravelles,Dickie Henderson.. John Dawson - The main photographer was Bill Ward. What a photographer he was. So dedicated and captured many treasured memories he did. Brian Davison – The Troggs, The Fantastics were there twice. with hit song (Something old something new something borrowed something blue.) Allan Kidd - Del Shannon ( twice),New Vaudeville Band, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Anne Donothey - tommy trinder,mersey beats,.swinging blue jeans,geno washington and the ran jam band.x Mick Riley - Gene Pitney Jack Kidd - For the first couple of years John Shelly was the resident DJ, and I've been racking my brains trying to remember the name of the resident House Band? Can anyone throw any light on their name?

Willy - as my memory was having a nap between remembering one of the turns I got the Sixtownships History Group members to help. There have been a load of acts names posted and I will work my way through the postings, extract the acts name and post them, along with the name of the person that remembered the act. - Like the one hit wonder 'Little Arrows(in the air)' Leapy Lea!

Yes - Troggs and - Dave Berry (The Crying Game) - Norman Collier (Testing, Tes..., ..sting,.....) - Freddy and The Dreamers. Did The Animals appear there?

Switching off the -Sky Wireless Connector - TV On Demand Straight from your Sky+ HD Box (MINI SD501) - I know this should have no affect on my normal download usage but that was my next step, just so when I next discuss with BT Help Desk (at least it's an 0800 number) to say I had tried it. Checked 05/10/2014 – Mtce -AGAIN Checked 06/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 04 Oct You have used 3.0 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 17.0 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Checked 07/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 05 Oct You have used 3.0 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 17.0 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. ????????????????????????????????? same as 06/10/2014 ??????????? Checked 07/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 06 Oct You have used 3.41 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.59 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. 2. Sky On demand box disconnected – 09:00 08/10/2014 –Windows phone still off Checked 08/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct You have used 3.84 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.16 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Checked 09/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct You have used 4.4 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 15.6 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. Looking at those dates and figures BT is recording my total daily usage, Upload & download, at an average of approx 0.5GB per day, over 3 days, compared with the average 0.93GB per day for September. My Habits haven't changed; the BT Home Hub Log still only showing my Desk Top PC IP address as connecting, so I am going to leave it as it is until Monday then switch the 'On Demand' box back on and if that appears to cause the download usage to increase I will be surprised!

I used to mock the service men, including my brother, in the 1960-70s. Join up for 11 years and play around the world. I have to take my hat off to anyone who has joined up, including the TA, in the 21st century as they know whats in store for them. I salute them. As for any country - USA - England & the rest of Europe etc - getting involved in any world crisis weather it's to benefit their own trade and economy or not, regardless of your political view, what choice dose the world have. Lie down and be dictated to or stand up and dictate your own rules. Just the same as when we were growing up and at school, fight back or submit!

Maggie - are you having pit pony stotties for lunch or did you mean to post this somewhere else?

Keith - Work is just getting too much for you - see my reference, with two links, in my first post iro the Dominoe. Wish I could remember the names of the, so called, comedians that died on that stage.

Struggling now, lots of images flashing through but no names! A group of us used to play football down at the park, past the Grammar School om a Sunday afternoon. Well tanked up! As we passed the Wallaw cinema, closed by then - mid 1968 I would guess at, one Sunday, we noticed the doors open and a lot of activity inside. So in went Bob Pattison and from that day we got to know the guy who was one of the managers/organizers and he kept us up to date with the night club developments. Just about every Sunday the group would call in and be updated and shortly before the opening night the free entry passes were handed to us, and they kept on coming for months to come - hence the reason why we could afford to get in 3-4 nights per week. Remember one night, probably a Sunday when we stayed behind with the management after closing, when I eventually got home, and before I could get upstairs, me dad came down stairs and was absolutely amazed to see me for the first time ever up before him and what he thought, ready to go to work. Couldn't disappoint him, he handed me my bait - Shippams Beef paste and cold tatties (together) sandwiches - that he had prepared the night before and I turned around and went strait back out the front door and off to work. Good job it was office work, only damage done was to my forehead banking off things. Just remembered - Lulu - Shout - the place was lifting. Hypnotist – David Duval? (not Duvcal as above)

Willy - there are another couple of old posts about The Dominoe, but not a lot of acts named. http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/3642-club-domino/ http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/3647-memories-of-the-past/ I, along with a group of lads from Bedlington Station, spent 3-4 nights per week in the place. My initial recall of names:- Frank Ifield Cathy Kirby Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - I got mistaken for Dozy (save the comments!) by two drunk girls and they floored me and crawled all over me. Unfortunately my mates dragged them off! The Ivy League Carl Denver Hypnotist – David Duvcal? Duncan Norvelle – Catch me! The Grumbleweeds Can't recall the name of the resident band. They were rubbish, lead by the trumpet player who also attempted to sing.

Very close Canny Lass. But how sad is this, my first thought as I awoke this morning - 'Shipman's', and even that's wrong, it's Shippam's.

Will have to try and check that one out. I knew most of the street names but was unsure of their actual location. I think I used the History Hollow topic Barrington :- http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/654-barrington/page-2?hl=barrington#entry34128 using Barton Raffies tagged photos, and the http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ to place all the streets.

Cheers Symptoms. Just working my way through all the possible unqualified answers/reasons i might get from BT help desk when I ring them back. Just want to prove to myself, even though I am 99.9% certain already, that none of the three devices in this household are inadvertently downloading anything that would up BT's calculation that bI have increased my downloading 150% since the BT Home Hub 5 was installed. Unfortunately, Sods Law, the BT usage monitor has now been out of service for 3 days already this month. BT say they are upgrading, perhaps they are getting it ti work correctly on my usage!!!! Although the rest of the world appears to require 'unlimited downloads' I just can't ever see me requiring, or wanting to pay more, for what little I use. I will keep monitoring, talking to BT etc., without changes, to see if I can resolve the situation before the end of this months allowance is eaten up. But always open to advice, or as I used to tell the trainees we used to get in at work when a problem arose - 'I'm older than you and seen, and probably caused that problem, before that's why I know the answer.

It certainly did, but can't remember if the manufacture was 'Princes' or another company - fish, salmon, beef, crab, chicken and probably loads more. Small glass jars with air tight 'tin' lids that just pressed back on.

Eventually found the BT Home Hub (activity) Log and discovered there was another WiFi address using my hub! So along with the 2 I knew about, my old Desktop PC and the newly fitted Sky WiFi Mini download/on demand box, was the wife's Nokia Lumia Windows phone that will have initiated connection when the hub was installed 5 weeks ago. Started monitoring on download usage via the BT Broadband monitor for the new calendar month on the 1st. On the 2nd - 0.93GB recorded over the first day - so if I keep at that average I will again go over, and be charged, my 29GB monthly allowance. Switched of the wife's WiFi. On the 3rd - sods law - BT decided to upgrade their Broadband monitor so it was down all day. On the 4th - 09:00 - monitor still down. On the 4th - 15:00 - monitor back in use and still recording my usage as 0.93GB. Roll on Monday - check usage and switch off Sky download box.

I think you should walk bast the 'Live' camera once per month, at a prearranged time, so we can check the body outline! You'll be telling us next you haven't got time to eat because of your 'Power walking' regime. Please to hear the job is keeping you busy.

Just have a quick peak almost every day, or night and I know I should grow up but when a person walks by the camera I just want to shout 'HOI'. Is it only when you use a zoom & focus facility that you require a special licence for this type of 'surveillance' camera?

1962-3 - can't remember the name of the farm - East Sleekburn - helping Alan Thompson (from Bolam Place) the farm milkman; potato and egg man; haystack builder etc. etc gathering in the eggs from the battery hen shed. My mate, Alex Third, and I thought we could cope with with any smell. Shovel up the cow patts from the yard, doddle. Next task to clean out the pig sty; three pens on each side of the building. Fork and shovel one load of muck from the furthest away sty into the middle sty - splat splat splat. Fork and shovel two loads into the end sty, double splattering. Fork and shovel three loads out of the first sty into the doorway to pile up with the three loads from the other 3 pens - splat and double splat. Fork and shovel 6 pen loads of pig mashed droppings onto the trailer. That was bad enough but when we were asked to go into the hen shed and fill an egg carton tray we found out what 'smells from the past' really was. Think the trays held 30 eggs so shouldn't take long; each cage with 10 hens and I think 3 or 4 cages stacked on top of each other. Each cage with it's own chute for the eggs to roll down into a collecting channel. Each of us just to go down one line and fill up a tray. The stench at the entrance to the shed made us cockle and stop - "If you want paying you have to finish the job" would be the cry. Empty egg tray balanced on one hand; breath held, into the valley (shed) of death strode the two workers. You couldn't even guarantee to pick up 30 solid eggs! Many of the egg shells, as a result of the forced feeding, had not formed properly and you occasionally picked up, what looked like a solid egg, a soft shell that split and 'slurped' over your hand. Each cage had approximately 10 hens and at least one, in each cage, was dead. So when you combine the hundreds of hens' 10% (approx) dead, piles of hen droppings, the heat in the shed; the rotting deformed eggs I have to put that smell down to the worst I remember from the past. Strange how I still enjoy an egg, with a runny yolk!

Thanks Symptoms - checking, learning, documenting, checking............................. will update as soon as I have an answer or solution.

Thanks for the reply Threegee - no BtTupdate this morning on their Broadband usage monitor so will have to wait until tomorrow to see what the first recorded download usage is for October. BT Hom Hub 5 - PC & Sky wireless. Sky connecting to Hub via On Demand MINI Wireless Connector. I will interrogate the neighbors (youngest 72 years old) over the garden fence with tea and Rington's Ginger Snaps.

Does anyone know of any software that monitors and logs all downloads? I am running Microsoft Windows Vista. Over the last calendar month my total download has increased from an average of 7.43GB per month to 20.56GB! My habits have not changed in the last month. I don't download music, videos, TV programs etc. etc. I do have Sky on demand and have tested it, just in case I ever need it, and did download three 1 hour programs = 3 x 644MB in the first couple weeks of this month. Never checked the monitor until I got the email on the 23rd from BT saying I had used 14GB this month. Then on the 26th I recieved another email saying I had used 18GB! So apart from the normal Windows and security software automatic downloads; the odd photo and pdf documents I don't download. Yes I play on community sites - sixtownships etc. and play one game - wwf on fb - but nothing that I am aware of that would suddenly start downloading at approx 3/4 to 1 GB per day. That's what the BT broadband usage monitor has been recording but I have no idea what is causing this sudden increase. New BT month starts tomorrow so I will be checking daily on BT's recorded usage.