#805 Let me bore you to sleep - NEW MOBILE BROADBAND - Jason Newland (9th MARCH 2022)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. This is let me bore you to sleep.

Hello. Hope you well. My stomach makes some weird noises sometimes.

Anyway, hope you well. Here's the latest. Here's the latest of what's happening with my life.

Yesterday's recording was a bit clicky. So I do apologize. It was a bit right the first bit.

I don't know why. For some reason, the equipment I use, I can't use headphones with it. So I can't hear what I sound like when I'm actually making the recording, which is a bit rubbish.

But I do test and then I plug it in, test it, then I unplug it. Then I plug it in again. Hopefully it's fine.

I think it's because I set up the microphone or system into the laptop. And I did, I made some change. I don't know how to unchange the change that I changed.

So there you go. So all this, this expensive equipment, I don't know how to use. Isn't that ironic? Don't you think? Let me just put the microphone lead over there.

Move that out of the way. It's like you do. Here's what I've done is I've got I've been looking for a better internet.

My broadband is absolutely rubbish. I'm with Sky. Now I'm not saying Sky is rubbish, but the internet is rubbish that I have with them.

And it's not so much this the speed of it, because it's like about 37 megabytes a second. But it's unstable. It cuts out.

It's really only useful for doing one thing at a time. For example, television, you know, watching Netflix. Now you should only need about two to four megabytes a second for Netflix, for streaming stuff without a buffering.

So I should be fine with 37 megabytes a second. Normally I am. But if I go to upload a podcast, which is, let's say 200 megabytes, and I'm uploading, I can't do anything else.

Can't watch television, like can't stream anything, can't use a different, because I've got I've got a laptop and an iPad that I use at the same time. And another older iPad. And I can't use them at the same time to do anything.

I can't even go on. So if I was uploading something now, I couldn't even open up Google on my laptop. That's what my broadband is like.

Now, last year, I decided I'd had enough of that. But I was unable to get a faster broadband. Now, admittedly, I think it is more to do with the stability than the speed.

But I didn't really know that. I'm not I'm not an expert on broadband or Wi Fi or stuff. So I ended up getting unlimited data in all of my devices.

So I ended up with both my mobile phones with unlimited data, my two iPads with unlimited data and my laptop with unlimited data. So that was expensive, because I was paying monthly for each of those and all on a contract. So it's a very expensive, debt incurring adventure.

However, I managed to get a lot of work done. So you know, it didn't pay for itself, but it did. I got a lot done.

So I saved hundreds of hours. Because if I just was relying on the the broadband, the Wi Fi, I would have been limited to uploading just a few pod, you know, a few things a day, instead of all the stuff I had to do adding music and all the uploads that I did. It's very time consuming.

So to be able to do two at the same time, of using also the laptop, so you know, uploading three things at the same time, was, excuse me, gas, lovely, was actually really helpful. At one time, I had five things working at the same time uploading stuff. Now, most of that's done now, so I don't need to be doing that.

I've still got about 200 recordings still to convert with music. And to upload those, they're the deep sleep whisper. But that's it, all everything else is done.

That I'm going to do. Probably, I might look into doing something on the Let Me Boy To Sleep. But I probably won't, to be fair, I'll probably just leave, just do the latest ones with music and without music, of course.

And leave the original stuff just as it was, just leave it alone. There's too many, you know, over 800 recordings on the Let Me Boy To Sleep, it's too, too many to be adding music to the take all year. And I can't be bothered, I've had enough of it anyway.

I've had enough of the process, it's very laborious, and I can't be bothered anymore. I'd rather just make new recordings really. Well, I managed to gradually pay off the debts, and I've paid off all my debts now, which is good.

But I got rid of all the contracts. Yeah, I think I've still got a contract on the, on the Wi Fi. And also pay for internet for my friend.

So I've got that contract, that's for 18 months or something, 30 pound a month or something like that 32 pound a month. So it's a very small amount. I'm pretty sure my broadband is run out of contract, and I'm just paying monthly and I can end at any time.

And I'm thinking of doing that, ending the contract at any time that is. But I've been looking for an alternative, like what, you know, what can I do? Because at the moment, when I upload a recording, so I'll make this recording, edit it and then go to upload it to Spreaker, which is then shared to iTunes, you know, Spotify and all the other ones. I can't do anything else on the internet while I'm doing that.

So you know, it's time consuming, it's very takes takes like a good hour or two to upload stuff sometimes. So that's a little bit. It's just limited time is valuable.

It's, I think, more so as, as I get older, I realised that the most valuable thing in the world is time. I know health as well. But in a way, maybe equally, I suppose health is more important realistically.

But time is just so precious. And I waste a lot of it, spending time doing the uploading, when really, I prefer to be spending my time making new recordings or studying, reading. God forbid actually having some fun as well at some point, that'd be nice.

So I'd like to have some fun. You know, I say sometimes I haven't had any fun since 2001, which is not true at all. But it's a generalisation and it's generally true.

Because when I say I haven't had any fun, what I mean is consistently, because every weekend, and to be fair, kind of every weekend throughout the whole of the 90s, I I was going out to comedy clubs. Not every weekend, but you know, this vast period of the 90s, I was out. Not necessarily drinking alcohol, because quite often I'd go out and I'd just have a couple of cokes.

And that would be it for the night because I didn't have really much in the way of money. I got into the comedy club free, but it was nice to be out, or I'd be performing. So for the, you know, for the most of the 90s, that's what I did.

And then the last bit of the 90s, I was more involved in a particular comedy club. And that opened up a different, it opened up more of a social life for me. Even though one of the good things about doing comedy is, or being involved in the comedy scene, the stand up comedy scene, is there's a magazine called Time Out.

I figure it's still around, I don't know. But it used to be the place where they'd have listings of everything pretty much going on in London. You know, cinemas, theatres, restaurants, you name it, it was listed in there.

And there was a whole section for stand up comedy. Listing all the comedy clubs in London and the surrounding areas, you know, Essex, Hertfordshire. What other areas? Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, that's it.

London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex. So that was a London area. There was like the outskirts of London and the inner London.

So all the comedy clubs all week. So I mean, majority of the comedy clubs would be at the weekend, Friday and Saturday night. But there'd be other comedy nights all through the week.

So what I could do is I could just look through it and see who was on. And if there was somebody on who was a friend of mine, I'd just go and see them. So if I didn't have a gig myself, I'd just go and see them.

And because I knew 90, probably 95% of the promoters of the different comedy clubs, I could just get in free and just walk in and say, Hi, you all right and just get in. So that was nice. I mean, there was a few clubs that I never went to, like Jonglers.

Never went to Jonglers ever. I was never able to perform there. So they never got to see me and never got to sort of meet me.

Or I never got to meet them, rather, I guess. I just, and they were in areas that I didn't go to. So, and there was a few new comedy clubs always opening that I didn't, they didn't know me.

But quite often if you just turn up and say, Oh, I'm a comedian and they'd let you in for free. Or if you say, I'll just come to see Nick perform or whoever it was performing and say, Oh, okay. So it was quite good.

So it's quite a cheap social life really. But it wasn't, it wasn't anything like how I had it when I, at the end of my time in London, the last four years, I had a much better social life, which also involved women and dating. You know, that's what I mean by women, dating, going out, dating, having fun, meeting new people.

It built my confidence up. But since 2001, it's gone. It almost just stopped.

And although I've met lots of women and I've dated and I've made new friends and, you know, along the way, and I've, I suppose I've done some mildly interesting things, you know, lived in a Buddhist community, I've been on Buddhist retreats, or other things I've done. It's all boring to me, but I went to, I went on holiday to the Isle of Man with my parents. I liked it.

It was quite good, actually. And my nan. So that was, that was a good experience.

But it wasn't exciting, you know, it wasn't, it was a, it's a nice holiday. And probably the final holiday kind of family kind of thing that I'll ever do. Because, well, I'm nearly 17 myself now.

And I mean, I'm not, I'm going to go on a family holiday. Plus, my nan's not around anymore. My dad's quite elderly.

And he likes to, he's more into cruises. And that's the kind of thing they do. They go away on holiday, him and his wife.

And they do, they go to nice places. And I think it's a break for them because they've got grandkids. So, you know, when they're at home, a lot of their time is spent, well, I don't know how much time, but they're looking after the grandkids and, and they love that anyway.

But I think it's nice for them to have a break, to get away and stuff. I'm just speaking, I don't know if it's true, but that's what I imagine. And I, I kind of, I know I can't, you can't turn back time.

But you know, it's a big regret about leaving London. I just, I know that out London is out. Out, I don't know what the right word is, outfinanced, out-expensed me, I couldn't afford to live there.

See, I suppose technically I could if I had a, if I had a council flat. Then I could afford to live there. But I couldn't afford to privately rent.

That would be impossible, absolutely impossible. But not impossible, but I'd have to have a very, very well paid job. Very well paid.

And outside of sales, I don't really know what else I would do. I was pretty good in sales, but I never had a high paying sales job. Mine was always in a call centre and yeah, I'd double my money with a bonus, with a bonus.

So I'd double my annual salary with a bonus. But even then, it wasn't a huge amount of money. The most I ever earned in one year was £25,000.

That was back in 2005, I think. So even then, it wasn't a lot of money. So it'd be nice, it would be nice to have got my worth because in order to, to make that amount of money, you're selling a lot of car insurance, a lot to make that kind of money.

So you don't, you don't get a percentage of the sales like you would do if you were selling cars or selling yachts or selling, well, maybe even houses. I don't know if it's a percentage that they get. Double glazing windows, I think they get like 25% commission or something.

Not with car insurance, you don't. Otherwise, I'd have been very wealthy. Let me think how many, how many thousands of pounds worth of insurance I sold every day.

To have even 10% of that, I would have been on 50, 100 grand a year, something like that. So yeah, it would have been a lot more. But anyway, it wasn't.

So there's no point arguing with reality, is there? There's no point arguing with reality. So really, I quite like to do something nice, do something fun. But I don't know what, there must be a way to have fun.

But I don't know how. And yeah, it's, I live in a just a very bland place. And maybe, maybe everywhere is bland.

I don't know. But I'd like, I think I quite like to live somewhere nice. Somewhere where it's nice, you know.

And I don't know what I even mean by that anymore. Because in London, it's a different energy. Well, there is an energy.

There's no energy here. It's just, it's like nothing. It's just nothing.

There's no energy where I live. In London, there's an energy. There's an edge.

Not necessarily a nice feeling all the time, but it's definitely, because so busy, so many people, there can't not be an energy, like a buzz kind of going on. And there's always something happening. There's always someone around.

It's, you rarely walk down the street and not see somebody. Of course at night, when people are in bed, you know, there's parts that will be like anywhere else. But, you know, where I used to live, I knew a road and I'd walk down there any time of the day or night, and it would be busy, 24 hours a day.

Cars and people. I don't know what the heck people are up to. Probably private nightclubs and various dodgy stuff going on that I wasn't aware of.

But always busy, always something going on. And probably more so now than when I lived there. So I imagine the population has probably risen by a couple of million since I left, if not more.

But the population is a different type of population now. There's, it's outpriced, that's the word I was looking for, outpriced. It's outpriced a lot of people that perhaps used to live there.

And, you know, I know people that have left, sold up and got a really good price for their home, and are able to move to a different part of the country, move into another house, much bigger for a lot less money, and then have that cash in the bank and have a really good lifestyle. But before they sold their house, they had no, they didn't know anything. They didn't, you know, they didn't really have any cash, maybe, and couldn't really do much.

Because of the expense of living there. If you got a car, it's very expensive. I mean, you're basically getting charged every time you drive your car anywhere in London with all the different charges and taxes and blah, blah, blah.

And what's this got to do with the internet? I don't know, something. Who knows why I'm talking about this? I don't know. So what I've been thinking, I need to sort out the internet, because there's no point.

Well, first of all, I'm not going to have, I'm not going back to having a SIM card, and I don't want any more contracts. I want to get, I've got rid of my contracts, where I'm in debt for years, I've got rid of all that stuff. And I don't want to go back to that.

I want to try and live within my means and just, you know, keep things as manageable, cheapish as possible. Now you still got, I still gotta pay money out, I can't avoid, you know, I still got rent, and bills and all the different things that have to be paid out. And internet is a necessity, it's not a luxury anymore.

It's not, it's not like, oh, we've got internet, isn't it? It's all brilliant. No, you have to have internet now, of some kind. And, you know, some people, well, I've got my phone.

Yeah, it's fine if you've got good eyes and your eyes, if you're okay to do everything on a tiny little screen. I'm not. I need a bigger screen.

And you can use your phone as a hotspot, like as a Wi Fi, for your laptop or your iPad. So there are ways of doing it. So you know, there are ways there are ways I tell you.

So I've been looking, I've been searching, and I went into Curry's the other day. And I said to the bloke, Can you help me? And he said, No, that's okay. And he said, Look, I've got internet, it's very, very, very, very slow.

It's supposed to be 36 megabytes a second. I don't think it is, you know, otherwise, why does it keep? Why is it not allowing me to do more than one thing? And he said, sounds like it's unstable. So unstable router or whatever.

And I said, What can I do? Is there anything that I can do to increase the strength of the or the speed of the broadband? And he said, probably not. And he said, Maybe it's a, it's a gamble, it could be got some stuff that might work might not work. And then, as he was showing me these things, he pointed to this other thing and said, Well, there is that because I was saying, I'm thinking of getting rid of my broadband.

But I've been waiting for us a better service to come along. One that offers super fast. I mean, I saw an advert earlier, it was online.

And one this, I can't believe the, the, the, just the cockiness that absolute cheek of this broadband company to say, Oh, we offer a great, great eight megabytes a second, a fantastic eight megabytes a second. Eight megabytes a second is appalling. It's absolutely, you should not.

In fact, I'll tell you what, my friend had BT. And it turned out he was getting less than two megabytes a second. And I called him up.

And I got the bill cancelled. I said, Look, because of bloatworthy Sam, well, that's the bill. And you didn't guarantee any amount, I said, he said, we only guarantee, you know, certain amounts that look, but just just forget that for a second.

What would you do? I said, So what would you do? If you paid £25 a month for broadband, and you ended up not being able to even watch Netflix or YouTube, because it wasn't strong enough, and you found out you again, sometimes less than two megabytes a second. Would you be happy with that? And he said, No. I said, There you are.

And he said, Okay, and he cancelled the bill. And he cancelled the whole contract because he was my friend was locked into a con. Actually, it wasn't his contract.

It was he a friend of his set up. Because he was. He was staying with my friend was looking after him.

And he was ill. And he's passed away now, unfortunately. So that's why we cancelled it anyway, because he wasn't around.

But they were going to charge, they were going to charge a fee to cancel. And I said, Come on. So drop the fee, and they didn't charge for the month, the previous month they'd had.

They had to cancel it because he was dead. So they had no choice. You can't charge someone that's not here anymore.

But that wasn't the point. Well, that was obviously that was a point, a big point, but that wasn't the issue was like, well, we'd keep it and change it over to my friend's name, if it was any good, but it's not any good. It's really, really bad.

And the bloke agreed. He said, Yeah, that's ridiculous. How can you offer someone a service that isn't a service? That is, it's just, it's, you know, I don't know what the words, a good analogy of that is given someone an empty plate in a restaurant, maybe I don't know, it's just, it's just a little bit of dust on it just is this was what was, you know, so anyway, I've been looking online.

And for some reason, my phone line, where the internet comes in, because we're still so out of date. We still use phone lines for broadband. And with those phone lines, you have to have a phone.

So they charge you extra for a phone that nobody's going to use. Nobody's going to use it. So it's like, whoa, why? And I've always done it, I've done it for years and years and years.

And the only service that doesn't have a phone is Virgin. Broadband, but Virgin Broadband had their own wiring system, their own internet cables. And unless you're in the area where they have them, where they put them in this, you know, underground or whatever, you don't get a chance to have Virgin.

And I think Virgin is the fastest out of all of them. Kind of ironic, really. And if that's right, probably not ironic, is it just thinking the word Virgin, and being really, really quick and good at something.

Because Virgin usually means being, you know, like a newbie, you know, in a sense outside of the actual real meaning of the the word. So I, I've been looking around, and this bloke in Currys with Currys, I wasn't standing in a big bowl of curry. This Currys is a retail electrical retail shop.

In the UK, there might then we might have the same thing where you are, I don't know. So I said to this bloke, no, he said to me, that's it. He said, Well, you know, you can get Now, I think I said to him, I don't understand why the broadband people, companies still use phone lines.

When my mobile data, I've got mobile, unlimited mobile data on my phone, and on my iPad and everything, and it is twice as fast as the broadband. And he said, Yeah, I agree. But you can get that.

So what do you mean? He said, you can get broadband, just use using, you know, mobile technology. I said, Really? He said, Yeah. And he pointed at one, it was in a box.

And basically, you had to get your own SIM card, unlimited, and then put it in there. configure it, that's the thing that kind of configuring, not sure if I know, I don't want to start feeling around with stuff. But he said, you can get might get up to 400 megabytes a second out of it.

And it was about 8090 120, about 120 pound, I think. And I thought, Okay, leave it there. I'm not gonna, you know, only just got rid of my unlimited data cards, I've got rid of all that stuff.

I'm not I don't want to set up another contract. So I come home, and I start doing a bit of research. And what I was looking for was, I don't know if he mentioned pay as you go.

But I looked up pay as you go, unlimited data. And it's now available. It didn't used to be available.

You know, it was trying to get people to have contracts. Well, now, how what they're doing is some companies that offer unlimited data, SIM card, just the SIM cards on their own. And you put it into your phone, or you put it into your iPad or whatever.

And on a contract, it's a lot cheaper than it is if you pay monthly. But you're stuck into a contract for a year. You can't get out of it without paying for the whole year.

And I don't want another contract. I don't want to even if it's cheaper, I don't want any more contracts. So I started looking online.

And I found and it's with three, the company's three, as in three, the number three. And they had this, I forget what it's called. Hawaii, Hawaii, or whatever.

But it's basically it's, it's only a small little box. And it comes with a SIM card. It's 29 pound, I think it's 28 pound upfront cost for the box.

And then 29 pound a month or 29 pounds a box 28 pound a month for the unlimited broadband. But it says on there, you can use up to 16 devices at a time at the same time, which I will never need to use the most I'd need to use would be probably three or four. But even then, probably not maybe any couple really, but possibly four.

And I thought, Hmm, well, it's a gamble. But at the same time, I got to find out if this works. Because if it works, it's just going to be so much better than what I've got.

So I ordered it a couple of days ago, or did it on a bum, bum, bum, on Tuesday. Yeah, two days to deliver. And I thought, Okay, fair enough.

And, you know, it's, you know, give my bank detail. So they take the money out every month. But I can cancel it by giving us a month's notice, which I'm okay with that.

So I can cancel it. And then it's done. If I don't like the service, if it's if it doesn't suit what I want.

And for 29 pound a month, I'm paying 32 pound a month for my broadband with sky. And I'm getting very little for the money. So I thought, Well, if I can ultimately, watch television, and use all the other stuff and upload stuff, download stuff.

And do everything, use all the different devices, and use my phone or whatever, then this is worth its weight in. Maybe not gold, but on a plastic or something, you know, it's worth its weight in plastic straws. Because to me, plastic straws are worth more than gold.

Because I miss them so much. Let's not get caught up in that bloody cardboard straws. So yeah, I thought I'll give it a go.

So I did it came through the post, it can't go in, it's supposed to be delivered yesterday. Right. So we're going to deliver between 1255 and 155.

And can you, you need to be there? Or we can put it leave it with a neighbour or blah, blah, blah. And I thought when I'll be in, why do I need to be in? Why just and I got home and my friend said, Oh, do you want to pop in? So we've been out? Oh, yeah. And I've got distracted yet again, I let people distract me, I need to be more undistractable.

But I get it probably won't surprise you that I get distracted quite easily. But I think it's because other people ain't got nothing going on. Like, that's not fair, is it? But they got their own stuff.

They don't care about what's going on with me. And I'm just, I have to be a bit more disciplined. Because basically, I missed him.

And he just stuck a thing on my door, he didn't, he didn't leave it on the doorstep. And I was angry because I was looking forward to getting it so I could test it out. So looking forward for two days to get in this thing.

To wait till today and it came through today. And I said to him why yesterday, why didn't you just leave it on the doorstep? And he said, Oh, we can't do that. It's valuable.

I said, No, it's £29. That's not valuable. And he said, Well, I don't know.

So then I was thinking, the device probably is worth a lot more than £29. It probably cost them more than that to make it. It's just because they're getting it.

And people whoever buys it, are going to be given another £30 a month to them every month for maybe years. So there's a lot of money coming in from that £29 box. So I didn't really really think about it like that.

But a tiny little thing is really, you could fit it in your pocket. So it's it's a little black thing. And it's got a battery in it.

So you have to open it up. To be fair, I can't think it can't be worth much because it's quite flimsy. Most of it's just empty inside.

That's where you put the battery, put the SIM card in first, which comes with it. Unlimited data, put the battery in. And I signed a thing to say that I'm not prepared to spend any more than what's on the actual contract, not contract, what's on the the pay as you go.

So nothing else. Just the unlimited data. That's it.

So there's no more than the £29 a month. And I just plugged it in. So it's plugged in permanently into the it's kind of got a charger, but I'm just got charged.

It's just being charged all the time. And I connected it first of all to the laptop. He gave me this little card, 4g and isomifi.

That's what it is called. And let me see if I can give you the name of this thing. I've got a box here.

4g plus MiFi pocket sized mobile broadband. And it's with three but I'm guessing this same thing would probably be with lots of different different different different companies. Oh, look, it says connect up to 32 devices.

Stay online for up to nine hours without a recharge. Go roaming 71 destinations around the world with a three plan. Easy and secure Wi Fi when you're on the move.

This clever little box acts as it owns as its own personal mobile broadband. And so I thought, okay. But the little card comes with it.

It's just got its own SSID, which is the broadband name. So when you search for the internet or you know, broadband, and there's got a Wi Fi code like password, but it's written in the tiniest writing. It's and there's no reason for it to be that small.

Seriously. I think the idea is you're supposed to take Did you hear that my phone went? Are you supposed to take it off the card and stick it onto the box? But it's tiny writing is the smallest writing. And I could just find I want to go and turn it off.

Excuse me. stupid thing. I'm not purposely turn off all notification bells.

So I don't have to hear any of that stuff. It's still some some managed to, you know, get through. I don't know how to look into that.

So anyway, I've got this little box that comes through came through today. I plugged it in, I managed to see the password. Put it in.

And I did it first of all on the laptop. I disconnected it from the broadband that I had it connected to. And there's still a SIM card, the old SIM card is still in the in the laptop, but I can't what's the point of taking it out? It's not doing anything.

Just there doesn't work anyway. worked so quickly. It's like twice the speed of how it was before with the broadband.

So what I did next is I connected it to my phone instantly. Again, when to connect it to my iPad, didn't even have to put the password in because the phone and the iPad are connected. And for some reason, which is weird, I don't quite understand why that was that.

But it just came up. Oh, wait a minute. I've got Wi Fi.

I have to get forget this network now forget. I don't want that Wi Fi. You damn thing.

How annoying is that? So the Wi Fi Oh, that's it. Okay, the Wi Fi is back. So I mean, with with the Wi Fi, the speed, if I did a speed check on the new Wi Fi, straight away, it's, it's faster, but not hugely faster, but it changes throughout the day depends.

And so I've got it connected, I've got rid of the other Wi Fi thing. So it is so yeah, not not not proper, not proper strong, but it's 25 megabytes download, but 24 megabytes a second upload. Now the uploading is what I do most of, which is, you know, weird.

Now if I got rid of that, and I put in sky, okay, if I put an algorithm, they want me to put, I said forget the sky now it's deleted, deleted the deleted the password. So I'm stuck on the one I got now. But if I do the same thing here.

So look, speed test. This is on this summer laptop. So here we go.

This summer laptop. Again, it's connected to exactly the same thing. So it must be.

Yeah, it's slower. Maybe it's slower at night, because there's more people using it at night. I don't know.

Unless I got half the estate logged into my internet, which wouldn't surprise me. Well, what's amazing is this, the download, although coming out at 28%, a 28 megabytes a second download, the upload is 29 megabytes a second. Again, I upload stuff, I don't download much stuff.Me, I upload the recordings upload it. And I just keep saying the word upload until I get bored with the word I suppose. So that's like, wow.

Now whether or not the reason it's slow is because I'm using the internet. I'm using the internet on my phone, because I still got web, I've got web pages open. So I guess technically it's being used, isn't it? I've got web pages open on the laptop.

I've got web pages open on the iPad. So I guess it's being used. If I close down all the websites and turned off, you know, the phone and turned off the iPad, I imagine the speed for the laptop would be a lot more.

So that's, that's what I'm getting for each device. Earlier, I tested it on just one device without anything else being being operated. And I got, I think about 70 to 80 megabytes a second.

So needless to say, although I will say it, because if it's needless, then it needs to be said. Unless I got that wrong. No, it doesn't need anyway.

I'm quite pleased. Now, I've got three things operated off of this, my laptop, the iPad, only one iPad, and the phone. I haven't tested the television yet.

That's something that I'm probably gonna look at maybe tomorrow. And before I get rid of my other broadband, I need to test the TV for a week or two to make sure that it all works. Because I don't want to cut an off in the middle of a box, the boxing or something and watching a world title fight and suddenly the internet cuts off.

That ain't gonna be good. Although technically, there's always a way around it. Because and something that I do need that I noticed because I went to the gym yesterday.

I didn't go today because I was talking about yesterday saying Oh, I'm not gonna ache because I'm used to doing weights. I was wrong. My chest and my triceps really ache a lot.

So I'm used to doing my biceps, although the triceps get used. I wasn't focusing on the triceps because to do triceps with bar with dumbbells, you have to basically put your head behind your head, arm behind your head. And it's quite difficult.

Well, I find quite an uncomfortable exercise. But with a machine, it's really easy. You know, it's just you hold it and you just push it down, like from your chest.

So yeah, I didn't go to the gym today. So I thought I'd let my muscles recover a little bit, maybe go tomorrow. But I will go I'm not going to put it off.

It's just today. I did feel a bit sore. Well, my back a little bit my shoulder, my shoulders a little bit, but more my chest.

And I mean, I'm flexing my chest. And it hurts. It actually hurts.

But it just shows that there are some muscles there somewhere. They're well hidden, but there are some. They're almost got camouflage on.

They're camouflaged as fat. But my legs are okay. But my my triceps are very sore.

The backs of the arms very, very sore. So I don't really once you get get warmed up and do a bit of exercise again, it doesn't hurt anymore. But I thought, you know, what's the point? What's the point in pushing myself too much? There's no gain to that.

And if if I make myself if it feels horrible, and I might just put myself off. And I don't want to do that. Push myself not pull myself off, push myself, put myself off.

So what I've done is I'll redo this to see if it comes up different. Try again. Go on, go on, go on, go on.

What does it come up? Come on, come on. Oh, yeah, it's much higher this time. So it variates it just changes depending on what time of the day is or even if it's like 10 minutes later, it changes.

So it's not the same all the time. But the upload is always high, which is exactly what I need with the broadband isn't. So this is 38.87. Okay, download and 30.87 upload.

Yeah. Now if I change it over to No, I'm not going to change it over. I don't even want to change it back to the other.

I don't want nothing to do that one. I'm just leave it on this. So what I've done is I thought, when I go to the gym, I listen to audiobooks.

So I need data on my phone to listen to the audiobooks because I listen to the audiobooks through my headphones on the way there, while I'm there and on the way back. So that's at least two hours, constant listening to an audiobook or music depending. But you know, I like the old audiobooks, self help, stuff like that.

Motivational stuff. Earl Nightingale is my my favorite. Anyway, I got a data plan, it's a pay as you go.

And it's just it's tiny amount, tiny amount of data. So what I've done is I've found again, a pay as you go plan, data, SIM card, so unlimited calls, unlimited texts, unlimited data, but limited in the sense of no extra charges at all ever. So I can't phone international numbers, I can't phone any numbers or do anything or send picture texts or anything like that, it's going to cost extra money.

It's blocked from doing that. And I can't remember how much it costs. But it was a good deal.

There's a pay as you go, no charge for the SIM card or anything like that. And that will be with me. And I get to use I get to keep the same number as well, the same telephone number that I had, that I have.

So that should come tomorrow in the post. And I'll swap that over. So the good thing about that I'll have the I'll be able to listen to music and, you know, listen to the audio books when I'm out with my headphones.

But at the same time, I'll be able to upload stuff, upload audios and stuff as well. So it's unlimited. So I'll be able to do that.

I'll also be able to use it as a hotspot. So if I'm out and I've just got my if I've got the iPad or whatever, and I'm out, I can use that as the internet rather than but I could say the other one. You know, the actual the little hub thing that I've got.

I could take that with me. But it's easy just to take the phone and use that as a hotspot. And then just use the internet on the offer there.

If I want to do go into a coffee place or whatever and do some work uploading stuff or just working on the internet, working on my website or something like that. So yeah, it's quite cool. It's okay.

I just the thing is with a phone you need we have to have a phone. It's a necessity now. I have to have internet, you need to have.

I mean, you don't have to have a smartphone. Plenty of people don't I know. I know people that don't have smartphones.

I find them very useful, especially for banking and for paying bills and stuff like that. It's just so easy. So easy.

Just reordering prescriptions at the doctor's surgery, stuff like that is just it makes things simple. It's done. I'd rather do that.

Or even ordering a takeaway using one of the apps rather than have to speak to somebody. It's just simpler. And I prefer that it suits me.

So I've got that off. So I've gone back to having an unlimited data plan. But it's cheaper than the other one.

And it's not with a contract. So that'll be nice. So hopefully, hopefully, I can test this one out with the television as well.

And all being well, I can get rid of that contact that sky 32 pound a month, get rid of that altogether. Hopefully. Now, if it doesn't work with a television and everything else, if it is it, although it says it should work with 30, was it 35 different? Who the hell's got 35 different devices? Even if you lived in a house with four kids, you wouldn't have that many devices, would you? Maybe it seems like a lot.

And it seems a bit showy offy that that thing can handle 35 devices, maybe maybe it can. It's definitely able to handle three. I've tested it with right now the phone, the laptop and the iPad.

So it can handle three devices, all doing the same thing at the same time uploading, which is the most it's probably the well downloading and uploading the things that put the most pressure on the internet. Pretty much on the broadband or the Wi Fi. If you're uploading or downloading a large file.

That's the only thing really, I think that puts the most pressure. Maybe apart from if you're gaming, gaming, so if you're gaming live, which I don't do, but I imagine that takes up quite a lot of data. So you need a very stable data plan for that.

In fact, you wouldn't use Wi Fi for that, you'd have, I think you'd have the modem connected to the television, or to the device you're using, because then it's not, it can't break. With Wi Fi, it can break even though I'm only a few foot away from the modem, it can still kind of cut off. So this is, yeah, I'm pleased with this, I'm pleased, very pleased.

And hopefully when I get the SIM card, activate it, and I'll be in my phone and it should just work exactly the same, same telephone number, but cheaper, and no contract, which is perfection for a lie, or for the, so yeah, I've got the, I've got that sorted out. So hopefully, hopefully, and we'll see, I mean, if I feel that I don't need unlimited data on the phone, and if I don't, for example, if I stop going out and I don't use it, then maybe I'll just get rid of it and just continue with just the broadband Wi Fi.

But it's nice to have, I mean, even the app to see when the bus is coming, to have to keep, at the moment I have to keep turning the data on just for the period of time that I use the app and then turn the data off again, because I know that it's limited and it's going to run out any minute, or it could run out, and then I have to put another 10 pound on.

And just, I can't be bothered with that. So yeah, that's, that's how things is at the moment. And so is it Wednesday today, I didn't really go out, I went to the garage, but I didn't go out.

Tomorrow, I'm going to stay in Friday. Oh, yeah, tomorrow guys, I got the SIM card coming, I don't need to stay in for that, because that's just a post office delivery. I'll just stick it through the letterbox.

Friday, I might go out. Saturday, I think I've been invited to a party. But it dawned on me that I've got no clothes to wear.

Because all I wear now is tracksuit bottoms. I've got about six pairs, identical. Or is it seven pairs? And I think I was six pairs identical and one, another pair that's, or two other pairs that are not.

They're like they're separate different ones. So I look like I'm wearing the same things all day every day, which I don't. But that's all I wear, just these blue tracksuit bottoms or sweat bottoms or whatever you want to call them.

I can't go to a birthday party dressed like this. Because people are going to think I've turned up in my pajamas. He's got his gym jams on.

That's okay, it's just Jason. I don't really want to be known for that. I don't really want to be known for anything that I do.

So if I do go, I have to go and buy some clothes. And it's not just um, trousers, I need to get myself a top. I've got a decent jacket, but that's for being outside.

I've got no, no decent clothes really. A couple of t shirts that I could wear. So it's not, you know, it's not really, it's not really practical, which means I'll go into town and buy some clothes.

So I probably won't go. Because I mean, is it this weekend or not? It's because yes, it's my friend Sarah. She invited me because it's her birthday party.

So she's not, I guess she won't really mind if I go or not. But yeah, it's not far to travel. She should know I was dressed in dressing, not dressing gowns in what I wear.

I don't dress up. But what if there's someone there that I could be the love of my life. And she likes everything.

She's really, really into unappealing men and smelly, fat, grey men. But the one turn off is tracksuit bombs. Just my luck, you know, it's like I tick all the boxes and then no tracksuit bombs.

I draw the line there. It's like, damn it. So, you know, perhaps need to get myself some trousers.

Because I did have two pairs of trousers. One I couldn't get on, just couldn't get them over my belly or over my bum. And the other pair I got on, I managed to get on, took the dog for a walk, dog crapped on the floor, went to pick it up and the trousers ripped, like ripped wide open.

And you could hear the echo of the rip all the way through the park. And the air, I could feel the air, you know, blowing on my, blown on my ring. And the air didn't just blow in my hands and my fingers, obviously where my ring was on my fingers, but it also blew on me bum as well.

And embarrassing, didn't, wasn't pleased with that, wasn't pleased at all. So, yes, I've got no trousers. And wearing tracksuit bombs is so comfortable.

I don't go anywhere. If I go to town, I just wear tracksuit bombs. I mean, I'm at an age where no one looks at me anyway.

I'm basically invisible. So I don't think it really matters what I wear. But going to a birthday party, party, and I think my friend, she's, I think she's 62 or something.

So she shouldn't really be celebrating. She's the same age as me. I think she might be, yeah, I think she's might be a year younger, around the same age.

Once you get to 50, it doesn't really matter anymore. 50, 90, it's just all the same, really. It's the same.

Imagine if you're in your 70s thinking, well, you're just a young man. No, I'm not. I'm not.

You didn't feel young either when you were 51. So don't lie to me. Anyway, that's it for me.

Thank you for listening. I'm going to go now. Yes.

So take care. Remember to be kind to yourself. Do something nice for yourself today.

And be gentle with yourself. Just be nice, you know, be nice to yourself. Give it a go.

Let me know how you get on. So I'll speak to you tomorrow. Lots of love.

Bye.