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My condolences.

Is there any possibility you can look into moving anything to microservices? Sounds like you might be better off moving over to something like kubernetes.

Otherwise the only thing I can think of is to configure the guests to be a master/slave scenario, or whatever we’re calling it now.

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Haha

I’ll have a look at your suggestions. Never heard of that. Thanks

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Start with looking Docker. Kubernetes works on top of that.

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I know you’ve got it fixed, but just a workaround for anyone that might read this later. I often use the Ctrl+D shortcut to Duplicate the cell above the one selected. ie. If you’ve got a formula in cell B5, and you would like it to be copied to B6, select B6 and hit Ctrl+D.

If you want B5’s content copied to B6 aaaaaaaaaalll the way down to B50, select B5:B50 (important to select the source cell here) and the hit Ctrl+D. Your column is now filled.

Do you want to do the same thing for rows rather than columns? Ctrl+R is your friend.
Want to create a big old block of data? Select the block you want filled, with whatever is in the top left cell. Hit Ctrl+D to fill the left hand column, then hit Ctrl+R to fill the whole block. MAGIC.

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I was not aware of those shortcuts, thanks.

This helps!

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How do I go about getting a camera for my pc, do I need to use a Webcam or can I use something else??

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I believe anything with a USB connection should work fine if I am not mistaken, but I believe it is possible to use HDMI connections as well, from what I have heard from streamers.

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What do you want to do with the camera? Decent quality webcams are still currently overpriced and understocked at the moment.

Depending on your use need, you could look at using your phone camera as a workable alternative. There’s a lot of apps out there act as a bridge between your phone and the pc. Some are better for iOS devices others better for Android.

I played around with one called DroidCam on an old iPad that worked quite well. Had the added benefit of being WiFi enabled so I could follow the cat around the house :grinning:.

Thinking about it now, I remember @SigStart used something similar last year when he was streaming and introduced Syd the Wonderdog to the world. @Entity also had a multiple camera thing going to watch his pugs at the same time as streaming.

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Just use your phone. I used droidcam with my phone when i streamed.

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Just for video meetings etc, thanks so much guys :grin: will play around tomorrow and figure it out

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Moving to a more appropriate thread.

I can get standalone from tech soup. Problem is you can only buy Windows licenses in one batch, then never again. You aren’t restricted on the number of times you can purchase upgrade licenses though.

Other than a few cases, I’ve been letting people use the license that comes with their laptops, but I have a feeling it might cause a problem when people start installing Win 11 Home.

At least we have Office 2016 licenses.

How do you determine what kind of household bandwidth that you need or require?

Reason: considering changing to a lower speed to save and wondering what would be adequate.

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Add up what you expect to be going on at peak time?

How many people will be watching 720p+ video? How often do you download 50GB+ for a game or whatnot? Online gaming?

For gaming though, a low contention ratio is more important than throughput.

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Only have 2 mobile devices, 2 Xbox’s and a laptop. Though all devices may have an active connection, there may only be a maximum of 2 or three active streaming/downloading.

Not really one to download media (by means of pirating) but will often be downloading games (they’re quite big these days). Media streaming consists of mostly Netflix or YouTube and I like to get 1080p.

Don’t really game online, much, maybe on the off occassion. When I do it’s often when everyone else is asleep anyway.

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What is your current speed? What could you ‘live’ with?

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Also what type of connection? Fibre? ADSL? WISP?

100/100mbps

1tbps :stuck_out_tongue:

Fibre

Yes.

No.

WISPer?

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Go down to 20mbps, I would have said go down to 10 but since you use it for other stuff maybe not. But do the cut and balance your budget.

Should be fine for watching? If you’re not on a contract and you don’t like go another speed up.

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I agree. 20 should be good. If you need to download a game set it to go through the night.

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Ive got 20/20 and we download games whilst people watch Netflix no issues

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