u/blanced_oren

Hi - I've got a couple of companions set up (Heltec v4) and have had plenty of conversations on the mesh. There are, however, some things I don't yet understand:

1. In practice, how often is it good to send a flood advert? Every day?

2. I can usually hit a nearby repeater. However it's hit-or-miss whether I get the 'heard x repeats' when I send a message. This was also the case when I went to another town. I've been waiting and resending repeatedly until I get at least one 'heard 1 repeat'. This is a bit frustrating. Is this normal / necessary / good practice?

Ces i sgwrs yn ddiweddar am y Gymraeg ym Mro Morgannwg. Oes enghreifftiau o siaradwyr 'olaf' mewn ardaloedd fel hyn - h.y. teuluoedd sydd wedi bod yn Gymraeg eu hiaith erioed, ond mewn ardaloedd lle nad oes llawer o'r iaith heddiw?

My broadband provider (UK) is ceasing landline phone service as it switches customers to fibre. I decided to port my number to VOIPfone. Here are my main takeaways:

- VOIPfone is a great company. They have been so helpful and actually provided knowledgeable staff to advise me as needed

- Plusnet - my broadband provider - were less helpful. Their advisor wasn't very clear on how to port the number. At one point I thought I'd lose my number.

- In the end it worked well and was worth doing, despite a bit of faff.

What I did in the end was:

1. Set up a Voipfone account and indicated I'd be porting my number

2. Bought an ATA (Grandstream) which is an adapter to plug my old phone into the router. Checked it worked with the Voipfone account (on a temporary number provided initially)

3. Arranged to switch my Plusnet service to fibre

4. Checked phone still working via adapter. At this point I'd temporarily lost my normal landline number.

5. Filled in the number porting request in the VOIPfone web portal and submitted it

6. Several days (maybe a week) later, had an email from VOIPfone that the number had ported to them

7. It worked! My old landline number was up and running with VOIPfone connected to Plusnet fibre.

Should I have done this differently? I've cut some of the detail from this but basically the whole process was pretty unclear, hence me sharing it here.

Fab Radio Wales / Radio 5 show in the 90s.