Recent content by Vexed

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How many cellular routers are there per train? If it's only one then a 12 car Class 700 with close to 2000 passengers needs more bandwidth than any ScotRail formation.

That doesn't mean they actually make it to your customisation though... Some locations better than others.

So it's just going to be full of slower charging cars because it's cheaper.

It's such a contrast reading about next stop announcements being regularly broken or not installed yet. Here in Southampton, Bluestar has had them for years and they work 95% of the time. They can also set diversion announcements, though they only usually do this for longer running roadworks.

It's generally for noise pollution or if there are multiple in proximity where it could cause confusion. They have a spinning cone on the underside that blind people can use instead of the beep. Pelican crossings are gradually being replaced with Puffin crossings that detect the pedestrians...

I think this just shows that lower range cars still pretty usable for most people - look at the amout of first generation Leafs still in use that have suffered a lot - and it's only going to get better with more fast and destination chargers. If the only option for me was a Frontera or an ICE...

The Micron 5400 I used in my example isn't consumer grade, it's an enterprise grade drive, though it's not industrial grade so not rated for massive temperature swings or heavy vibration. I wouldn't be surprised if the Class 810 CCTV has some design similarities to the 800s, so could be a...

It's the broken parking sensors (hopefully I can get these fixed soon) and the Polestar software is a bit buggy. I've had the speakers stop working twice. The software problems are well documented online, some bits fixed and others not. Nothing about the public charging infrastructure has come...

It's maybe time to drop my experiences in this thread. I recently got a high mileage Polestar 2 Single Motor Long Range (72 plate) and it's almost all positive. I previously drove a diesel (no surprises why I didn't want to buy another one looking at fuel prices!). I regularly do 3-400 mile...

You can get flash storage that is rated for it to be written to >1000x it's capacity. I have a few Micron 5400 Pros with a storage size of 960GB and they're rated for 2628 TBW (terabytes written) which means the whole drive can be rewritten 1.5 times a day for the whole 5 year warranty period...

I don't think anyone's mentioned maintenance yet, which can be less disruptive on paired by use (US DS UF DF) as one the fast or slow lines can be taken for a possession overnight/early morning/late evening and everything can run on the other pair that's still open. Particularly important on...

Predictions on RTT and other data feeds (which would usually predicted by something called Darwin) should assume the best case scenario to avoid people missing trains because they arrive "early" against the expected arrival time. They assume the train doesn't get stuck behind something else or...

I read this online, so when I sent something to the DVLA recently I just got a normal 2nd class stamp and handed it in at a Post Office aksing for proof of posting (free). On a more positive note, I exclusively use Royal Mail for what I sell on eBay (mainly random small computer parts a handful...

Just for some more local context, all the Forestry England New Forest car parks used to be free. Charging is a recent addition and I'm sure Bletchleyite is correct that it's only feasible because of app payments. Foresty England said it was so they could raise money for maintenance of the car...