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Thanks folks, kitcat's theory of relativity pretty well answers my question while Bob's prediction seems all too accurate. Nothing stays the same especially in the tech industry, it's just that many people who remember putting two old pennies in the slot and pressing button A or B as required are finding it harder and harder to keep up with it!
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... it's just that many people who remember putting two old pennies in the slot and pressing button A or B as required are finding it harder and harder to keep up with it! Most of the people reading that post won�t have a clue what you are talking about LOL. If interested, they�d have to google it, and not having tried I�m not sure they would find the answer.
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... people who remember putting two old pennies in the slot and pressing button A or B as required Ah yes, the good old days of the GPO, who doesn't look back on them fondly?
Well I don't for a start 
Bill
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Ummm.
Didn�t they used to deliver letters reliably, twice a day, to almost everywhere? Sometimes same day?
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Didn�t they used to deliver letters reliably, twice a day, to almost everywhere? Sometimes same day? Yes, but that's what they were originally set up to do. Diversification into other fields of communication turned out not to be their strongest point 
Bill
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Interestingly, lots of public wi-fi spots prevent vpn use - for example Premier Inn hotels and SouthWesternRailway
David
BT (poor) -> Zen (excellent) -> O2 (started well, went downhill -> IDNet (No complaints - but 100GB cap) -> Zen (gone downhill)
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Thanks folks, kitcat's theory of relativity pretty well answers my question while Bob's prediction seems all too accurate. Nothing stays the same especially in the tech industry, it's just that many people who remember putting two old pennies in the slot and pressing button A or B as required are finding it harder and harder to keep up with it! So when did it go up to 4d?
Michael Chare
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Interestingly, lots of public wi-fi spots prevent vpn use - for example Premier Inn hotels and SouthWesternRailway Good reason to avoid them. Is this both SSL and IPsec VPNs?
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Don't remember it being 4d, Michael. STD came in around 60 years ago when the old 'Button A and B' coinboxes were replaced by boxes taking higher denominations. I think the lowest was 3d (the thrupenny bit) and next up was the silver sixpence.
The amount charged depended on time and distance; I was working near London at the time and 3d would give 15 seconds on a 400-mile call to my home base. This was enough to advise my ETA etc. in the days when 'get mobile' could mean a half-mile walk to the phone box, where we stood in the rain waiting for someone else to finish what was always an interminable local call.
Technology certainly has brought some benefits!
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4d as I recall. When STD came along it went up to 6d. I don't ever recall it being 2d, but maybe I'm not old enough (but I'm working on it).
https://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTsHistory/1912to1968...
Looks like it started at 2d, went to 3d, then 4d. 60p today!
John
Edited by JHo1 (Fri 25-Oct-19 16:53:23)
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