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We're still getting a good signal, although I have heard that 3 may of "oversold" their services in some locations, leading to the slow down. Hopefully, if that is the case, they'll get on top of it and increase the capacity of those masts. Cheers!

Hi, unfortunately, probably not. If you are in a poor reception area, then that is going to limit you. You maybe better off getting a standard fibre connection if available? From one of there many providers - plusnet, sky, talk talk etc etc. In the meantime, have you tried moving it around to different window sills pointing in different directions? Cheers!

Hi, it was 2x8gb (16gb total) Samsung M471A1K43CB1 PC4-2400T SO DIMM, HP part number 854916. The SSD was just a standard 2.5 inch SATA drive. Cheers!

No problem!

Hi, it comes with a different SIM card as it has it's own tariff. If you can't get decent 5G speeds with your current 3 5G SIM, I'd guess this would be the same as it's using the same network, unless you're phone has a poor aerial / faulty. Cheers!

@@Tech-Nerdrome Thanks for the clarification. My phone just works fine if it's on a window. Otherwise inside the house it just bad. Maybe I'll consider of getting the broadband.

@@pranjalvaity.406 if the phone works ok on a window sill, should be ok, as you can just permanently put the router there. I think there is a 30 day cancellation period if o it doesn't work anyway. Cheers!

I hope there is an element of sarcasm there, but thank you! 😂

😂 Glad it helped! Cheers !

Thank you! Yes, solves 98% of problems! Maybe! 😂

Thanks for the comment. I guess you're end of contract if it's been 2 years. How are Three when it comes to contract renewal? Do they give a good deal, or force the cost up by not offering deals the second time? Cheers!

@Tech-Nerdrome my out of contract price is the same as during contract, so I m not even gona bother renewing it. They ve over sold 5g here and can't get new contract even if you wanted to. Good thing is speeds are still good. Maybe they will upgrade the mast so they can take new customers in

Hi, yes, there are two gigabit RJ45 sockets on the back for wired network, that would work fine for consoles and PC. Also, on PC, all game services have been running / downloading fine (steam, ubisoft, epic etc ), so nothing seems to be blocked like it sometimes was with mobile-based broadband of the past. Cheers!

On the plus side, you got a free case then! :) always good!

@@Tech-Nerdrome absolutely, it was an all steel case too. Heaviest computer case I have seen since the 80s!

In HP's defence, I don't think this is to do with them directly, more of a Windows / forgetting to take it off an asset list thing! Cheers!

Nah, I've tried resetting, and even deactivating the TPM - no luck. Sorry about the sound - yeah, had to record in a different location to normal, which was probably the issue!

Wow! I thought they capped it at about 300. Nice. Yes, been just over a month now, and very happy.

I've seen just over 900mbit on a good day. I'm about 300 meters from the tower. Usually it's 5-700. There are down sides though. The MTU size on their network is quite small and causes issues with certain things. Some online games and VPNs won't like it. For the £20 it cost me (gone up to about £21.50 now!) it's a bargain. If you want these speeds on fibre it would be double that.

@@BlatentlyFakeName wow, I thought there would be some sort of capping.... I guess not!

Sounds good. Yes this is a bodge. Having two different sized, different res monitors is less than ideal!

Ha! This probably wouldn't be the best setup to pair with a 460GTX card! ;)

Hola. Lo siento, me ha costado encontrar información sobre esa PC, en particular sobre su placa base. Incluso si usa piezas ATX estándar, esa PC solo tenía una fuente de alimentación de 350 W, que tal vez estaba más orientada a 3,3 V y 5 V, como era normal en ese momento. La fuente de alimentación puede tener dificultades para proporcionar suficientes amperios de 12 V a las CPU modernas, ¡sin siquiera pensar en una GPU!, por lo que si la carcasa es ATX estándar, prácticamente todas las demás piezas deberían ser reemplazadas... ¡Salud! Hi there, Sorry, I have struggled to find any information on that PC, in particular it's motherboard. Even if it uses standard ATX parts, that PC only had a 350W PSU, which maybe geared more towards 3.3V and 5V as was normal at the time. The PSU may struggle to provide enough 12V amps to modern CPUs, not even thinking about a GPU!, so if the case is standard ATX, pretty much all other parts would need to be replaced...... Cheers!

@@Tech-Nerdrome Agradezco tus comentarios espero poder mostrarte en un vídeo este equipo, para mostrar mi reliquia pues fue un pc muy útil pero limitado . Me sorprendió cuando lo encontré en la basura y lo pude hechar andar con su recuperación del sistema de verdad me sorprendió. Saludos y excelente día.

¡Lindo! ¡Sí, sube un vídeo y envía el enlace! Salud Nice! Yes, upload a video and send the link! Cheers

Definitely a potentially good use for it. Not sure I can justify a "big-box" PC to do that though unfortunately, as space is a bit of a premium.....! When I build PCs I generally either have to get rid of them quickly (Sell / give away), or break back down into parts for more efficient storage :(

@@Tech-Nerdrome Solely a suggestion here: Just in case you do give it away _(and BTW 4GB RAM will do, even though 8GB is significantly better, especially for the 50p price of sticks),_ you could perhaps give it away to a person with such an OS already installed on it _(like those listed above or one form perhaps the FSF Free-Software-foundation page like Trisquel OS based upon Ubuntu or an i3 OS on the FSF site like Hyperbola)_ as ask that recipient person to do the few-quid-given thing. There are a bunch of web-browsers _(of varying licences, proprietary or Free-Open-source-Software)_ that could be installed on it before handing it to them like Chrome, Edge, LibreWolf, Gnome-Web, Ladybird, Vivaldi, Opera, iceweasel _(or firefox ESR with Thunderbird for RDF-Site-Summary feeds and say Claws-Mail),_ plus some other free softwares like say BSD license, Apache License and GPLv2 (and GNU concepts) or MIT such as OBS-Open-BroadcastStudio, Tomcat server, and Squid (Foundation) Server, PuTTY-FTP, 7Zip, GRSync, GNU Radio _(perhaps mentioning LoRaWAN),_ Ghost4LinuxG4L _(and Avogadro, Gnumeric, Abiword)._ Pre-installing Slackware _(with slackbuilds, and slackpkg configured and nix and NDISWRapperWifi for 32bit XP wifi drivers on some older 802.11 'g' or 'n' PCI-card or USB-dongle)_ for them could be an option, although whatever the Linux operating system _(other than maybe if using UFS for BSD)_ setting up CUPS and SANE with tesseract-OCR and GuvcviewCheeseCamera software and DVD+RW-tools and Brasero and blueman for bluetooth 2.1 for A2DP and EDR dongles, handing them a system image _(done twice in G4LGhost4Linux in multiple 2GB chunks as tar gzip files, two per DVD)_ on DVD-R disks in case they need recovery of the drive, and let the file-system be say XFS for snapshots, with SWAP space somewhere, even if an extra HDD has say ReiserFS. Having XFCE and KDE desktops (with Gnome) as options on startup can give the end-user some choice and a window-manager too. Then on that, all their ALSA sound settings are done and jack-audio and extra network (wifi perhaps) set-up like in the 'etc' directory, so in the rc.d the rc modules would have had your manual edits for the network devices. You could have WiresharkSoftware too. Vimwiki could be on there too with translations plugin addons for multiple languages. The idea would be that they get to have the nice caring thing to do to help the OS coders of their choice _(be it a BSD OS or Linux or OpenIndiana, whatever)_ and yet the PC is done for them when it is handed to them. If they have a M-F-A security hardware key for USB _(and those usually have RFID near field contactless),_ that too could be done for them and they can choose if the ever want to use OpenSSH and PuTTY or learn about a TTY session or BASH using fstab for USB mass-storage-devices via online documentation. My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.

Thanks! Yep, I was thinking so too..... Cheers!

Thanks for the comment. Unfortunately, I don't have this PC any more, but noted for future similar systems! Cheers!

Thanks for the info. About 3 weeks in now. I get 200mbit + all the time. No down time yet. Yeah, I've got a 2 year contract as well, £24/month, £12 for first 6 months, but also used topcashback, that was £76 back (gone up to £90 odd back now). Very happy so far. Fingers crossed! Got mine online, so hopefully no issues! Cheers!

i have a 3g mobile phone sim and i get 100gb for 12 pounds u should double check that sim contract

@@robz16 Hi there, 3G is a fair bit slower than 5G, and 100GB is the amount of data you get - this is unlimited data at 300mbit (speed) - On home broadband, you download one game, and these days that's 100GB gone! Cheers!

Hi, looking at the 7010 motherboard, I think you'd have exactly the same issues as this video. It would fit physically, but you would need to take the fans with it. Also the front panel connector from the case wouldn't fit (unless it was also a very similar dell model case). With a normal generic case, exactly the same issues as this video would apply. Cheers!

@@Tech-Nerdrome thank you again!

@@Tech-Nerdrome I also have a Dell Vostro PC, doesn't work due to what appears to be water damage/ corrosion. The case is similar in size to the 7010, but the back panel doesn't quite look the same. I lightly thought of replacing the Vostro rear case paneI with the 7010, as I like the style of the Vostro case, but don't know if the mobo would line up. I want to keep the front side features, so I might just get a replacement case!

@@j.lietka9406 most PC's and motherboard have their own rear I/O layout, but in most instances it is just a plate that presses out and can be interchanged, however some prebuilt Dell's and HP's do have fixed rear I/Os. Cheers!

Think the Radeon 7770 down in this video has XP drivers, so several comments have suggested putting that in..... If I can find another fan that is! Cheers!

:) with a graphics card, probably, yes! On windows 7 it probably could just, on the integrated graphics. But a lack of windows 10 drivers for the igpu stumps that a bit. :) yeah, saying something when even something like this can now run Crysis! How things have changed. Cheers!

@@Tech-Nerdrome Now I am concerned that we must upgrade Crysis with random lumps of spare code we have lying around...

Yep, but I guess something a bit more power efficient and space saving would be better for media serving.... Probably the HP 260's job lot I had in an earlier video. Guess you could whack a load of drives in this though! Cheers!

Nice! If the fan power is dead, you could always fit a case / molex fan to it and use it that way. Had a Radeon 7770 that I had nicked the fan from in my latest junk pc video, where I'd bodge fitted a molex fan to it. Cheers!

Thank you! Once it passes PAT testing, maybe! Cheers!

Me and some other Kid actually did this at tech school, Tech teacher decided a Phenom X6 1100T with a GTX 1070 was a good enough PC to be one of the Workstations after I got the power button to work. None of the other front IO, just the Power Button.

Ha! Maybe, but on the plus side, you can pick them up for next to nothing, so if you are able to use them, it's a very cheap way to get a PC. Cheers!

@@Tech-Nerdrome well, I lurk on second hand resale sites where I get normal components for next to nothing as well, so...

Well, the recyclers tend to send those straight to dismantling and refining, but ok.

@pierrehenriot2480 Good point, well made! ;)

@@Tech-Nerdrome That's what I did. With a little bit of soldering here, some bridging there, and some bits of wire bodged in at the "wrong" locations, I have a fully functioning 8th gen Intel system. All in all, a $15 computer if you don't include a GPU. This is a stupid cheap way to get a reasonably decent computer, but remember.....what you save in money, you'll spend in the form of time and elbow grease on effort! but hey, I'm poor and have a lot of time on my hands and live in a world full of inflation. I'd rather spend my money on something else.

Thank you! But wouldn't be a lot without the viewers / community, so thank you too!

Ahhhh.... The Amiga. I had a 1200 back in the day. Gave it away to a jumble sale when I got my first PC. What a mistake! Yep, but may still need a graphics card even for that. The 2nd gen graphics are not officially supported by win10, so running of ms basic display drivers! Cheers!

@@Tech-Nerdrome 1200 eh? Luxury! :) I had an A500+ with a memory upgrade to 1 mb. As for your machine here, I've had pretty good results emulating an Amiga on a pretty low-spec 2014 (non-gaming) laptop running Windows 7 using WinUAE, so you might be OK.

It would probably struggle to run DOS to be honest! ;) cheers!

Thanks! Just for a bit of fun really. An issue with those mobo's are that the 24 pin power gets in the way of any graphics card thicker than 1 slot..... But maybe that 7770 I nicked the fan off could be made to work..... Thanks for the comment!

@@Tech-Nerdromegood call on the graphics card. The other issue as well is the molex fans will run at 100% all the time, but it will help with cooling, even though they will be a bit loud.

@@nathan_tasker yeah, there will be 2 of them if the graphics card goes in. Making it great as a jet engine simulator! Found a use for it :) cheers!

No problem! Good luck! Cheers.

Yeah, figured they might. I guess they may implement it later.... Our maybe they are worried about eating into their own market if it came with a functioning phone ability too.... Cheers!

@@Tech-Nerdrome Or try plugging in a lagacy phone to see what happens, it may take a minute for a dial tone. I have an unlocked 4g modem with an O2 sim and a legacy phone that works 100%

@@Tech-Nerdrome O2 don't do this. It is just Three being spiteful and greedy. It is called Net neutrality

Nice! Unfortunately all my ethernet ports and cards are 100mbit - not got a gig card to try. I'm now discovering my network is a bit antiquated! As I've been on 2.5Mbit ADSL for so long, that's been the bottleneck, so not been worried about the network as it made no difference. My main PC was still using a WiFi G card until I got the three broadband! Time for some upgrades me thinks.... Cheers!

​@@Tech-NerdromeYou can get a wifi 6,6e or 7 card for a pretty reasonable price from Intel, for a Intel wifi 7 card it's around 30 to £50 a wifi 6e card is around 30 to £40

Guys, are you using a better router with three one through cable to get faster speeds?

@@tiktokeruwunok4640 hi, no, just the standard router 3 supplied, over WiFi (not using a wired connection). Cheers!

Hi, no sorry, I don't. From the shot of the bottom, it's input is 12v 1.5A, so I guess the max power draw will be 18W. I'll see if I can find a power meter though, as would be useful to have ..... Cheers!

@@Tech-Nerdrome Also good to compare with last router, to compare overall powerusage and power usage per mb/s or whatever? Also, can it have pfsense installed on it??? :D

Thanks for that. I've actually sold it now (plus didn't have a dongle!), but definitely useful info. Cheers!

Thanks, and welcome! Nice - yeah, I can't stand seeing PC's and components go to waste .... And a useful skill for everyone to have - good on you for passing it on.

Thank you!

Thanks! Cheers for watching!