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Would you recommend a Nest mini 2 if I put in my bedroom? And are you Not able to disable data and audio collection or delete the collected data in the google home settings?
No. It is "proof of address" not "proof of residence". These are two very different things. The rules are you need to provide "proof of address". So it doesn't need to be a "utility bill" as you claim. This is bad advice!
An important point to add here is that when inserting the wires into the connector you must have the clip side down. Though this video does show that I thought it an important point to make for anyone doing this for the first time.
Does anyone ever have a problem with the crimping tool not crimping all the wires? Is it the tool or the connector or is it possible the wires are crossed which prevents them from being crimped properly?
Hi we live in Spain and used the Irish embassy in Madrid three weeks by courier bags from the local post office ..I did not know you can claim Irish citizenship as well. Dave.
Difficult, no. But why was such a rule imposed in the first place? It makes no sense and no just ends up perpetuating incorrect and false misinformation among the public - which is very dangerous.
If you're just making cables for your own home, is there any reason you couldn't just wire "straight through", i.e., without the goofy color order? Seems to me that if you went orange, orange-white, green, green-white, etc., it would work just as well. Isn't it the case that as long as the same wire is connected to Pin 1, then the same wire is connected to Pin 2, etc., that you would get electrical connectivity from the plug on one end to the plug on the other end.
Simple answer: no 🤣 slightly more complex answer: there's a very specific reason they're ordered that way as it's not just electrical connectivity you need. The signals going up and down the wires create electromagnetic interference, as well as being affected by it externally, so you'd get poor performance due to cross talk and other interference if wires are essentially twisted with the wrong other ones based on how they're wired at the ends.
Weird question but will any load bar from let’s say a non shielded rj45 fit in a shielded rj45? I have a cat5e cable that needs repair and I have a cat6 shield rj45 but can’t get the wires in so I’m assuming I need a load bar. Thank you!
You probably have a mismatch on the gauge of the cabling (specified in the AWG number). That's basically the thickness of each of the 8 wires - make sure the cable matches the plug (or load bar) and you'll be fine.
it depends if your modem supports fibre/sfp. If it does, then great - if not then you may have to run a short copper cable to a switch next to your modem. That wouldn't be a bad thing, if it's just a short patch lead then it's not going to slow you down in any noticeable or measurable way as long as it's a good cable cable, eg. CAT6a or something and the network ports on the modem/router and switch support the maximum speeds you need.
. I'm assuming I need to get her birth certificate via the Irish site you mention and get her marriage one via the English site (as she married here) also, do I need to send certificates of my father who is technically British but an Irish citizen through his mum (my grandparent) because I'm applying through my grandmother not him. He's a birthday passport holder... dose this matter??? Please help
Can I use two google nest mini together with a bluetooth speaker or a Google nest Audio to cast music or sound from the tv? I would use it as cheap smart home teather.
Yeah just birth / marriage certificates etc. was all I needed to send. Double check on the website though to make sure it's not changed since I did mine.
@@SwitchedOnNetwork thank you. I'm assuming I need to get her birth certificate via the Irish site you mention and get her marriage one via the English site (as she married here) also, do I need to send certificates of my father who is technically British but an Irish citizen through his mum (my grandparent) because I'm applying through my grandmother not him. He's a birthday passport holder... dose this matter??? Please help
Wow, just having a read of the comments and you really have got all the Flat Earthers commenting over here 😅 Not a single one of their "facts" (well opinions) back up with any evidence 😉
Hello, having an issue. I removed the back panel but the front panel on the door won't budge an inch. Any idea how it should be removed? I think it's a CL200 series
@@SwitchedOnNetwork thank you. Just realised I have the tool not suitable for pass through. I’m not a professional I just got it to make some cables at home. Can I still use a pass through plug and crimp with the tool and then cut the excess off somehow afterwards ?
@@M_anon3000 you can have a go, but it's risky. I'd say for the potential problems you might cause versus the relatively low cost of the right tool it's worth doing it properly 😉
I dont have ddouble tap to turn off, but your video made me look for another solution... and actually to lock screen on mine I can put a widget on each of my screens in the lower center to lock, this way I dont need to use the power button too often (I can wake by finger print). My Huawei P30 is otherwise still a very good phone, I will try to not use the semi faulty power button too much now.
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Mate a sprinkler system ie much more likely to extinguish an ice car fire than an EV fire. EV fires burn with far higher temperatures and when finally put out can flare up again and again and again and again sometimes weeks or months later, when you park your car in your garage I hope it doesn't catch fire a burn down your house while you and your family are asleep in bed, also mate don't damage the surrounding metal box that your battery is in or the bill to repair or replace the battery will cause the insurance company to write off your shiney new car, then you will have to buy a new car. PS don't drive your ev when the road's are very wet either, remember that water and electricity don't go well together. Happy motoring pps when parking in car parks I check to make sure that there are no evs anywhere close to me. 12:18
"PS don't drive your ev when the road's are very wet either, remember that water and electricity don't go well together." Did you ACTUALLY just comment that? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm just going to assume you were joking, you must be. Genuine question Trevor - do you put your (and all your family's) laptops, mobile phones etc. and put them in a metal box at the bottom of your garden when you go to sleep at night?
@@SwitchedOnNetwork I don't have them on charge when I go to bed and thankfully they are much much much smaller than an EV, scooter,, or bicycle battery, these have been responsible for house fires also .
Quite right, there have been some terrible fires caused by dodgy, unregulated cheap imported scooter and e-bike batteries. Hardly surprising - but you can't compare the battery in an electric car to the dodgy crap you'd get in an unlicensed and regulation-flouting electric bike bought from a dodgy internet seller. That's like saying "fred over here doesn't know what he's doing, or doesn't care, and has rewired his house himself using bell wire, so the house over the road done by a proper electrician meeting all the EICR regulations is probably a death-trap as well!"
I did the process like 20 times but my ethernet gets capped at 100mbps tried another wire same port I get a gigabyte, cable was working before just wanted to change one plug because it got broken tab all wires passed through and same on both ends. is it possible that the cable got burnt because I put the wires in wrong order once?
There were only ever going to be a finite number of battery car enthusiasts. Eventually enough of the rest of the, so far unconvinced, driver population were going to realise battery limitations, such as range and charging time inconvenience. Add to that higher insurance, higher body repair costs, fast depreciation, difficulty part exchanging or selling their older EVs and government guidance restrictions on how close to buildings people are allowed to locate EV charger and EV parking before the risk pushes up their fire insurance and logic prevails. Children still love their battery cars though.
You don't have to be a "battery car enthusiast" to appreciate the benefits of driving a car which is massively cheaper to own and drive, (almost) zero maintenance, much nicer and more relaxing to drive, more convenient to refuel (overnight whilst you sleep or quickly whilst you're going to the toilet/getting a coffee at a Motorway services) and orders of magnitude better for the environment and the world (wars over Oil, anyone?) The millions of people who've bought, owned and operated fossil fuel cars over the years weren't all massive petrolheads; they're just people who want/need a car to transport themselves, their family and goods around the place. So it's beyond stupid to try and claim that the only people interested in electric cars are "battery car enthusiasts". Right, enough about your first line... now for the others: "battery limitations, such as range and charging time inconvenience." - There are no issues with range (I can do over 300 miles in my car between charges, if I needed to [which I don't]. And charging time isn't an inconvenience. 99% of the time it's whilst I'm asleep and the car's sat there doing nothing outside my house. On the very rare occasion I charge it away from home, it's ALWAYS ready before I am to get in and drive again. Like, ALWAYS. Sometimes you only need a 5 minute charge to top-up enough to get you home before it'll be sat on the driveway doing nothing for hours again. Combined with extremely fast charging at public chargers and the fact you don't need to charge all the way to 100% again every time - it's *NEVER* an issue. "Add to that higher insurance, higher body repair costs" - nope, not true. OK I mean the insurance on my leased car is more than what I paid the year before on an 11-year old Skoda but I think it's fair to pay more to insure a car that's worth more? Dunno where you're getting your higher body repair costs line from... a panel's a panel. "fast depreciation" - all brand-new cars depreciate fast. And if you're not complaining that EVs are too expensive, you're complaining that they're too cheap when they hit the second-hand market. Dirty Oil lovers are seemingly never happy! "difficulty part exchanging or selling their older EVs" - why, have you got one you're struggling to get rid of? There's lots of people wanting to buy a second-hand EV! "government guidance restrictions on how close to buildings people are allowed to locate EV charger and EV parking before the risk pushes up their fire insurance and logic prevails." - mostly fuelled (pun intended) by misinformation and panic. As people stop believing BS, and as batteries get EVEN safer than they already are, the truth will win out.
It doesn't matter that statistically EVs are less likely to spontaneously. The property-owner's issue is that IF an EV does catch fire, the firefighting labour and resources needed to control it; cool and disperse the burning battery is insane compared to a liquid fuel fire. Sprinklers only serve to cool fires which is somewhat effective at slowing liquid fuel fires, however lithium batteries burn too intensely to be cooled by water, all the cells need to be broken apart so the heat is dispersed before they can be cooled enough that they stop burning. In an enclosed environment such as a dense car park, that facility is unusable for longer for an EV fire than an ICE. It makes sense to have a policy to ensure minimal damage at the expense of what is (arguably unfortunately) a minority. This will remain the case until firefighting "technology" and expertise is able to catch up to a point of being able to tackle lithium fires effectively.
But if their sprinkler system isn't working properly is it a good idea to be open at all, to any cars? I mean, *right here* in Liverpool - just a short 25min drive from Alder Hey - the car park at the old Echo Arena burned to a crisp and had to be demolished because of an ICE car fire.
@@SwitchedOnNetwork Nope. Not a good idea. And that's what fire safety inspections and regulations are for. The thing with a liquid fuel fire in a multi story car park is you can have your big bulky pumps parked on street level, whilst they jet water onto the fire to cool it and protect the structure and other vehicles. It's not gonna be perfect, hence the need for sprinklers which would be effective at cooling and quenching a fire from a pool of liquid fuel. For an EV, you'd have to send firefighters up there to poke and break up the intensely burning pack somehow (I dunno what the strategy is these days), since it burns too hot to cool with water and supplies it's own oxidiser unlike liquid fuels. But also until the car has burnt through, that pack is tightly secured inside the vehicle and inaccessible.
I have had an EV for 8 years, it has only done 40 k miles in that time from new, yet 6 has degraded by 33%. Never again, they are just not fit for purpose.
Well if that's genuinely true and you're not just an anonymous bot account paid for from a content farm, you'd be in the massive minority there. There are countless examples, even just in the UK let alone the world, of EVs that have done enormous mileages and are still going strong. It's categorically untrue to say they're not fit for purpose. The amount of money I had to spend over the years repairing and keeping my various petrol and diesel cars on the road with all their complexity and tendency to go wrong makes me think the old fashioned fossil technology is the one that's no longer fit for purpose in the modern age!
