<html><head></head><body>Other things to consider if going down the Pi route, is the power management switching off the WiFi (this can be solved) and the Broadcom drivers crashing on the regular (this can only be solved by a reboot).<br><br>At the moment I am having to restart the Our almost daily.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 1, 2021 8:32:18 PM UTC, Martin via Nottingham <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Folks,<br><br>Forwarded from Nigel:<br><br>Cheers,<br>Martin<br><br><br>#####<br>Fay, Martin,<br><br>Thanks for your suggestions. There's a lot to explore here. The idea <br>of using a RasPi hadn't occurred to me. Does this mean a wifi <br>connection between router and Pi and ethernet from Pi to desktop? <br>That's essentially the way I'd been using the RE200.<br><br>The desktop is a spare and is kept in a separate room from the main <br>computer and router. As a result there's little scope for either an <br>internet connection or moving the router closer.<br><br>I'll also continue to search the commercial market.<br><br>Ironically the Webmail speed has improved since my moan. Even so, it's <br>still slower to load and refresh than other services run at the same <br>time. The internet speed itself is satisfactory. I'll try Thunderbird <br>or similar.<br><br>Glad to know you enjoyed the link with another LUG last Thursday.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Nigel<br>#####<br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>