japitts wrote:
I came to this meeting, and was most impressed. Apart from the idiot sat next to me who was clearly intent on disagreeing with Paul right from the start. Every opportunity he could, he muttered some negative comment or insult under his breath just loud enough for everyone in earshot to hear. I whispered the odd comment back "if you're so confident, speak up" but gave up bothering after a few minutes and settled on nodding and commenting in support of Paul's better points. About 10 minutes from the end (just after the "how many times would you look at your speedo" bit), he and someone else got up and walked out.
I wasn't aware of that at all. I guessed there were a few 'objectors', but I didn't really hear a peep out of them.
japitts wrote:
Despite that, it seemed the vast majority of people were generally on-side - and it was good to finally meet you Paul. I've also signed up to do the IAM test in October this year.
As for your upstream being lost just before the end, I have a likely explanation for this that is either completely off-base or spot-on depending how accurately I observed the equipment Paul had setup...
The upstream went via cellular 3g network from my laptop. The 'datacard' lost connection and indicated 'no network'. It's NEVER done that before or since when there's been good signal strength. I'm tempted to suspect that it was a cellular network problem and nothing to do with my equipment.