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Ron

Ron

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If any competition organisers would find it useful to have a file of all next day runners I would be happy to provide them in any of the formats, MS Access database, Excel, text delimited, Word table. Can include any or all of Venue, Race Time, Horse, Stallion, Jockey, Trainer, Owner.

The file can contain all runners, runners for selected meetings or runners for selected races

I find it very useful for running competitions as selections can be easily picked from a drop down list of runners included in the contest and race results can be recorded from the list of horses in each race

For anyone who has MS Access I would be happy to provide a copy of my systems or build one to suit. No charge of course
 
Sounds good Ron.

I only have Excel - well Open Office's version of it, but it pretty much mirrors MS Excel.

All I need now is an Internet connection! Using mobile data on my phone as BT can't or won't mend a broken connection.

I'm considering going to satellite broadband - if anyone has any experience of that I'd love to hear it :)
 
Reebok said:
Sounds good Ron.

I only have Excel - well Open Office's version of it, but it pretty much mirrors MS Excel.

All I need now is an Internet connection! Using mobile data on my phone as BT can't or won't mend a broken connection.

I'm considering going to satellite broadband - if anyone has any experience of that I'd love to hear it :)
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Dunno what satellite net is like in GB, but in Oz it costs an arm and a leg.
 
Reebok said:
Sounds good Ron.

I only have Excel - well Open Office's version of it, but it pretty much mirrors MS Excel.

All I need now is an Internet connection! Using mobile data on my phone as BT can't or won't mend a broken connection.

I'm considering going to satellite broadband - if anyone has any experience of that I'd love to hear it :)
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When yo say "broken" Reebs do you mean the cable is broken on your land?
 
I live 5000 metres from the last cabinet, and as the line still functions as a land line (albeit scratchy) it means that the line itself is intact, but presumably with a faulty connection somewhere between me and the cabinet. And as there are only 2 households here - and the other one doesn't want Internet, I'm guessing they don't care about doing so much checking just for me.
Since my OP I have negotiated another engineers visit tomorrow, so I'll see what happens then.

Cyc: it isn't cheap here either, but the connection is guaranteed and speed is fast, and tbh I'm between a rock and a hard place if I want to continue using the Internet.
And moving elsewhere is not something 9i want to pursue just yet!
 
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Reebok said:
I live 5000 metres from the last cabinet, and as the line still functions as a land line (albeit scratchy) it means that the line itself is intact, but presumably with a faulty connection somewhere between me and the cabinet. And as there are only 2 households here - and the other one doesn't want Internet, I'm guessing they don't care about doing so much checking just for me.
Since my OP I have negotiated another engineers visit tomorrow, so I'll see what happens then.

Cyc: it isn't cheap here either, but the connection is guaranteed and speed is fast, and tbh I'm between a rock and a hard place if I want to continue using the Internet.
And moving elsewhere is not something 9i want to pursue just yet!
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We had a similar problem, being remote. Does where your neighbours live help in locating the approximate area of the damage. We had to have several visits before they accepted that the problem was as specifically pointed out by my son, despite him proving his point by joining the damaged cable with some speaker cable which worked perfectly. One pair of engineers not only replaced the speaker wire but nicked it. When they left the problem started again because they hadn't fixed it properly. We eventually got some engineers who agreed with my son and fixed it properly
 
OK BT update ..... got some connectivity now, albeit slow (didn't expect anything else really) But it has dropped twice since the engineer left 10 minutes ago so I'm not getting too excited just yet. Talktalk will call me today or tomorrow and there is a certain amount of resetting they can do, so I'll wait and see how it develops!!!
 
Sounds familiar Reebs. The main thing is to know exactly what and where they thought the problem was and what they did to "fix" it. I was lucky, having my son around because he knew when they were bull ****ting
 
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