Just gor the 1GB Rpi - how the make SD card ?

[timmoore46]

Does it need a different NOOBS or Raspian ?

Is there a special version for it ? Or does Raspian just work out of the box ?

A nervous,

Tim

[ame]

Raspbian works.

Forget NOOBS.

Download Raspbian image. Write to card. Boot.

[timmoore46]

Many many thanks !

I downloaded both overnight !

Off Topic but how fast is the Broadband you use on your PC. Rumours have it, its a lot faster than in the UK ?

Greatly appreciate the info.

A Happy,

Tim

[ame]

Many many thanks !

I downloaded both overnight !

Off Topic but how fast is the Broadband you use on your PC. Rumours have it, its a lot faster than in the UK ?

Greatly appreciate the info.

A Happy,

Tim

I don't actually know. Sorry.

It certainly seems fast. I am in a rural area, about 60km from a city, and I have 100Mbps fibre to the house. It is uncapped but the speed is dependent on other things of course. It costs me about W30,000 per month, which is about $18.

[timmoore46]

Many thanks for responding !

My Pi is now working so all I have to do is to wake up the configuration program again! I forgot to set my password for root access !
I'm about 4MB ! with a vague hope of 35MB, so yours in much much better than the best here! (For people who live in a small village 200 miles from London (350km approx)

Many thanks again.

: ))

Tim

[Can-Toi]

Raspbian works.

Forget NOOBS.

Download Raspbian image. Write to card. Boot.

Why? I think it's a nice route for beginners with hardly any experience in installing operating systems.

[Can-Toi]

Many thanks for responding !

My Pi is now working so all I have to do is to wake up the configuration program again! I forgot to set my password for root access !
I'm about 4MB ! with a vague hope of 35MB, so yours in much much better than the best here! (For people who live in a small village 200 miles from London (350km approx)

Many thanks again.

: ))

Tim

By default, Rasbian does not have a "true" root user account set-up. You can achieve most tasks via the "sudo" command and the default user, pi, has full sudoers privileges. (I would even recommend disabling the option to use sudo without entering your password.)

See Rasbian FAQ: How do I make a proper root account?

[ame]

Raspbian works.

Forget NOOBS.

Download Raspbian image. Write to card. Boot.

Why? I think it's a nice route for beginners with hardly any experience in installing operating systems.

Do you use it?

[Can-Toi]

Raspbian works.

Forget NOOBS.

Download Raspbian image. Write to card. Boot.

Why? I think it's a nice route for beginners with hardly any experience in installing operating systems.

Do you use it?

No, I don't, although I've introduced a couple of my friends to the Pi and they've used it the first couple of times of installing a system for the Pi.

I don't think that there's anything wrong with both the image and NOOBS route. I'm not suggesting you should use NOOBS, I'm merely saying that it's a viable option for people.

[DougieLawson]

Many thanks for responding !

My Pi is now working so all I have to do is to wake up the configuration program again! I forgot to set my password for root access !
I'm about 4MB [sic] ! with a vague hope of 35MB [sic], so yours in much much better than the best here! (For people who live in a small village 200 miles from London (350km approx)

Many thanks again.

: ))

Tim

If your local exchange/cabinet has been enabled for FTTC then you should get 35Mbps (bits not bytes) as long as you have good copper between the cab and your house. We only get 27Mbps because our last 800m from the cab are aluminium. The change from 4Mbps to 27Mbps was a marked change streaming video is now possible on more than one device simultaneously. Before, streaming video was enough to swamp the whole network.

To go faster than that you need fibre to the exchange, fibre to the cabinet and fibre to the house. For us that's going to need a 800m trench dug in the ground (which BT won't want to dig for free).

[fruitoftheloom]

Many thanks for responding !

My Pi is now working so all I have to do is to wake up the configuration program again! I forgot to set my password for root access !
I'm about 4MB [sic] ! with a vague hope of 35MB [sic], so yours in much much better than the best here! (For people who live in a small village 200 miles from London (350km approx)

Many thanks again.

: ))

Tim

If your local exchange/cabinet has been enabled for FTTC then you should get 35Mbps (bits not bytes) as long as you have good copper between the cab and your house. We only get 27Mbps because our last 800m from the cab are aluminium. The change from 4Mbps to 27Mbps was a marked change streaming video is now possible on more than one device simultaneously. Before, streaming video was enough to swamp the whole network.

To go faster than that you need fibre to the exchange, fibre to the cabinet and fibre to the house. For us that's going to need a 800m trench dug in the ground (which BT won't want to dig for free).

Yep FTTC is in my area get 40meg Broadband, but realistic average in my home is 34Mbps, far better than 4Mbps I was on a year ago

[timmoore46]

Most interesting conversations !

Most of the populated area are just going over to 34MB , but I'm 3 miles down a lane and the overhead cable are battered by loads of very large trees ! Often it breaks ! Current been on free Internet/speech because is so bad in availability !

I also also use '3' MFi thing that very far better !

Just hope 4G arrives sometime...

: )))

Korea always understood the imperative far more than GPO/BT ever did/does.

Tim

[DougieLawson]

Most of the populated area are just going over to 34MB [sic] ...

MB == megabytes (8 bits == one byte) is incorrect in two ways as you're counting bits as bytes and there's no time reference
Mbps == megabits per second (which is the unit that ISPs use when measuring line speed)
Also, strictly speaking, we should be using MiB and Mibps as we're using multiples of 1024, not multiples of 1000.

I'm ignoring start, stop & parity bits, it usually takes at least 10 bits to send one byte on a serial line.

[drgeoff]

The comms industry has never used '1024 based' measures for serial speeds. I believe the ITU specs and documents use kbit/s, Mbit/s and Gbit/s.

[Bruny]

and that can lead to other inconvenient topic
Why did the industry fail?

[W. H. Heydt]

and that can lead to other inconvenient topic
Why did the industry fail?

That was an...interesting...read (only read the last page). So much that never happened and so many things that have happened that were considered "impossible".

[mikerr]

35Mbps
To go faster than that you need fibre to the exchange, fibre to the cabinet and fibre to the house. For us that's going to need a 800m trench dug in the ground (which BT won't want to dig for free).

I get 150Mbps with Virgin Media cable - and I'm on the outskirts of town, not city centre

[kusti8]

I really wish the US would get their act together with broadband. On a good day I get 20 Mbps, on a bad day I get less than 5 Mbps. Then, if you call Comcast, the speed magically gets faster

I would love to move to those cities in the US that have Google Fibre.