Any question answered...

contact the person who posted it to get in touch with the postal supplier is the obvious thing. customs don't destroy things until they've sent you a letter saying you can go to court to contest the decision if you want.

Cheers, I've sent an email and hoping I get a reply that I can read this time.

I ordered something ages ago and it's been held up at the border for about a month ( according to tracking) I've not heard anything since, what are the chances that it's been destroyed/sent back? All I know is that it arrived in the UK, no idea who has it or who to contact.

I have had a similar issue from NJS Export recently.
Who is carrying the parcel in the UK?

My item is also coming from Japan, I have no idea who's carrying it because according to the tracking it's just still at customs.

Almost everything I've gotten from Japan was shipped via EMS.

Okay.
That's what I wanted to know.
Go to the parcel force website and paste your EMS tracking number in to their search bar. I did it not four days ago and it converted it to a Parcel Force shipping number. Then I called Parcel Force and quoted the number and they were able to assist me.

Cheers Ian, I'll give that a go.

Well I'm looking for a new frameset for city fixed gear riding.
I'd like an aluminum frame with a modern look, durable and best around the £350 mark. May of course be cheaper.
not 100% slave, no low-pros, just something nice.

Anything besides Dolan PreCursas out there?

If you don't mind modern steel there's the Tokyo fixed Dart, look at Ridley Ovals too.

Track champ.

Thanks.
I have looked at the Dart, may be a possibility. Does anyone know the fork a-c measurements?

Track Champs have this weird seatclamp design that is prone to failure. Not what I want..

Induction charge mouse. For PC.
Yes/no?

I live in a 1st and 2nd floor flat.
Our virgin media cable comes in through the front wall into the lounge.
The office at the back of the house gets a terrible wifi connection.

What is the best way to get a cable back there?
Is there anything wrong with buying a 200m long ethernet cable and routing it round the external of the house and into the office at the back?

have you looked into the powerline adapters? plug in a socket near router, another in office at the back.

seem to cost about £35 these days i think.

there is a lot wrong with that.

normal, proper ethernet cables can run up to 100 meters max. If you run it next to power cables you need to have STP or SFTP cables which are more expensive. If you can do it with less then 100m, make sure you use CAT6 and up. Make sure the text on the cable never contains the words CCA (Copper Clad Aluminium) or CCS (Copper Clad Steel).

There are special cables that are weather resistant or you can run tubes on the outside and feed the cable through it. make sure you never bend it (it's not a power cable) to avoid cable colisions.

If hard wiring you shouldn't go greater than 50 meters without a repeater/ switch. but virgin routers suck anyway, you have to use their router to connect to their network but you could run a cable to a more central point in the house and then connect a router here, using that as your wireless/ connection point.

** apparently networking has improved since I did my networking+, he seems to be correct the max distance it 100m

have you looked into the powerline adapters? plug in a socket near router, another in office at the back.

seem to cost about £35 these days i think.

This. Very much.

200m? Just how big is your house?

The powerline ones I think I will have a problem with.
We had the office and kitchen swapped, and so all the electrics there are new. New loop. New fuse box.
The lounge, where the virgin media comes in is on the old house electrics. Different fuse box so I assume the signal won't travel.

New fuse box - kitchen and office.
Old fuse box - rest of the house.

Yes - 200m is probably a massive overestimation.

I have just measured it out on the back of a fag packet and make it 30m ish to go out the front of the house and wrap all the way round to the back.

I had thought I could just buy some outdoor grade CAT6 and two faceplates?
router into face plate in the lounge -> outdoor CAT6 round the house into the office at the back (30m ish) faceplate -> ethernet into office comp

Or a wireless extender - you have options.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=wireless%20extender&sprefix=wireless+ex%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Awireless%20extender

Get a cheap wireless router and run a cable from the original one to the second one and put it in the room you need it most.

Mount the router on the ceiling.

Mount the router on your back
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Routers issued by Virgin without a built-in cable modem have an Ethernet-compatible "up" port. I've done what Sumo suggests using a Virgin-issued Netgear WNR2000 to cover different parts of a house, but it also meant I could let friends and family use the main wifi without the devices on the second hotspot being accessible.