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    I cannot help but see an absurd irony in the EC (and UK) talking tough about GDPR, ostensibly caring about citizen data rights, privacy...
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    slowworm reacted to Snake's post in the thread Phone line replacement with Like Like.
    Last time they changed any of our poles, the company changing the poles swapped the wires over, and were not very keen on my insistence...
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    slowworm replied to the thread Phone line replacement.
    They've surveyed the old pole at least twice, tried to replace it at least once and finally only managed to put the new one in when the...
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    slowworm replied to the thread Plug & Play Solar.
    Sorry, I'm confusing things. Looking at the return you might get on a plug in panel has encouraged me to look at the costs of a full...
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    slowworm replied to the thread Phone line replacement.
    I'm not at home at the mo but they do seem to be leaving coils and just attaching to the poles. A non-BTOR company did the same sort of...
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    slowworm reacted to Snake's post in the thread Phone line replacement with Like Like.
    Are they just leaving it as a coil at the end of each cable run? if so then yes that is the rollout of fibre, they did that around here...
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    slowworm reacted to GreyCat's post in the thread Plug & Play Solar with Like Like.
    Hmmm, resilience is maybe a different calculus as you then want it when the grid falls over in a power outage (whatever the cause)...
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    slowworm replied to the thread Plug & Play Solar.
    I do have a change over switch but I'm more likely to put a battery and any generation on separate circuits. But we tend to lose power...
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    Does anyone know who to contact or where to find out details about work on their phone lines? There are workers puttting up a new...
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    slowworm reacted to GeraldTheBonsai's post in the thread Plug & Play Solar with Like Like.
    ah sorry, got you.
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    slowworm replied to the thread Plug & Play Solar.
    I know, thanks. DNO have been good, fitted monitor, agree power goes out of legal range etc. But because they may do work for free when...
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    slowworm replied to the thread Plug & Play Solar.
    I've not really looked if it would save money, resilience would be the main driver. We don't use much electricity in the summer and in...
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    slowworm replied to the thread Plug & Play Solar.
    Yes but then at a huge cost to ourselves. If we keep the grid connection then I'll chase the DNO to sort out the problems. Our main...
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    slowworm reacted to Stew's post in the thread Plug & Play Solar with Like Like.
    Can you essentially go off grid but just leave the poor grid connection in place?
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    slowworm reacted to GeraldTheBonsai's post in the thread Plug & Play Solar with Like Like.
    This is the route I am going down - its a sort of hybrid solution. Without a substantial investment, I know I can't power things like...