Today was Talk talk day. Our phone and broadband services have now been migrated over to Talk talk saving us around £15 a month hopefully. The original download speed estimate they gave us was 2Mb, which was revised to 1Mb a week later in a letter they sent us. Luckily the router has synced just short of 4Mb so I expect to get 3.5Mb once it settles down. There is a 40GB download limit per month so I’ll be keeping my eye on that – I reckon I’ll get pretty close if not hit that but it’s only an extra £4 a month to double the limit. We’ll also get free local calls any time and free evening and weekend calls too. With BT we were paying for unlimited calls any time which wasn’t really being used – our bill consisted of mainly mobile phone calls.
Back to broadband… there appear to be no inbound port restrictions with Talk talk, I can happily host a web server on ports 80 and 443, RDP access on 3389 and 4125 works too for the Windows Home Server console and PC remote control and more interestingly PSP Remote Play works – I can stream services from my Playstation 3 at home over the Internet to my PSP on a wireless access point somewhere else (thanks to the Robbinses for letting me test that earlier!). All seems good with my new ISP so far but it’s only been a few hours. I’ll be sure to mention any problems I get with them.
And in Joseph news, he had his first solid meal today: a bowl of baby rice which disappeared pretty quick.
