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« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2012, 10:19:47 »

With regards to BT, I have noticed many friends facebook posts stating "posted near Veryan" Which is a tiny little village on the Roseland Peninsular. This appears to be people posting in the west of Cornwall, so must be where the exchange that BT are using for most of west cornwall recently
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« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2012, 22:34:11 »

My geography of Cornwall is fading. But that sounds like their connections are terminating at Goon Hilly Satellite Earth Station. Where the big comms dishes are and also the end of some deep sea Fibre Cables ;-)
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« Reply #17 on: April 20, 2012, 01:15:20 »

My geography of Cornwall is fading. But that sounds like their connections are terminating at Goon Hilly Satellite Earth Station. Where the big comms dishes are and also the end of some deep sea Fibre Cables ;-)

You're losing your touch, thetrout: you are indeed quite right!  Wink

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goonhilly_Satellite_Earth_Station
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« Reply #18 on: April 20, 2012, 02:09:16 »

I haven't lived in Cornwall for over 5 years and it's 2AM so surely an honorable brownie is in order.

The name Roseland Peninsular puzzled me... I always knew it as The Lizard Peninsular Wink

But for a useless fact of the day, when you make an Overseas Phone Call, the chances are it's routed via Goon Hilly Grin

If you're ever in the area, it's well worth a visit! A fantastic day out and some of the things and history you'll pick up IMO (in my opinion) is fascinating Grin

As an aside I didn't think I'd spend the first 30 minutes of my 22nd year in Coach F on a HST (High Speed Train) to Taunton but each to their own... Wink Grin Tongue
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« Reply #19 on: April 20, 2012, 19:50:30 »

I haven't lived in Cornwall for over 5 years and it's 2AM so surely an honorable brownie is in order.

The name Roseland Peninsular puzzled me... I always knew it as The Lizard Peninsular Wink

But for a useless fact of the day, when you make an Overseas Phone Call, the chances are it's routed via Goon Hilly Grin

Of course before Goon Hilly it was Porthcurno where all the deep sea cables were terminated.

However, the Veryan I know is not on the Lizard Peninsula which is where Goon Hilly is, but is indeed on the Roseland Peninsula, which is to the east of the Fal estuary.
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« Reply #20 on: April 20, 2012, 19:53:00 »

In the last few hours, I've moved from Brighton to Hove.  This move appears to have occurred retrospectively.

My university also appears to have relocated from it's false location of Kempston to the actual location of Cranfield.
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« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2012, 23:14:03 »

I haven't lived in Cornwall for over 5 years and it's 2AM so surely an honorable brownie is in order.

The name Roseland Peninsular puzzled me... I always knew it as The Lizard Peninsular Wink

But for a useless fact of the day, when you make an Overseas Phone Call, the chances are it's routed via Goon Hilly Grin

If you're ever in the area, it's well worth a visit! A fantastic day out and some of the things and history you'll pick up IMO (in my opinion) is fascinating Grin

As an aside I didn't think I'd spend the first 30 minutes of my 22nd year in Coach F on a HST (High Speed Train) to Taunton but each to their own... Wink Grin Tongue

The reason its puzzling you is that the lizard peninsular and roseland peninsulars are two seperate places, roseland is about 25 miles east of the lizard, where st mawes is heading towards st austell from truro. Therefore completely unrelated to goonhilly
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« Reply #22 on: April 21, 2012, 02:26:32 »

There you are, then: "Pay attention, young trout!"  Wink Cheesy Grin
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« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2012, 14:19:52 »


9th (Easter Monday) to 15th April inclusive:

1.   London   1,408   5.51
2.   Bristol   372   13.65
3.   Oxford   247   7.04
4.   Reading   218   4.67
5.   Birmingham   185   5.12
6.   Bath   179   23.38   
7.   Plymouth   162   7.83
8.   Cardiff   129   6.36
9.   Southampton   112   8.66
10.   Worcester   92   7.10

Now that we're well out of the Easter period - data from 21st to 27th April inclusive:

1.   London   1,473    4.59
2.   Bristol   423   14.65   
3.   Oxford   234   6.51   
4.   Plymouth   185   6.35   
5.   Reading   185   4.85   
6.   Bath   171   7.78   
7.   Birmingham   169   4.61   
8.   Milton Keynes   129   7.19   
9.   Cardiff   119   5.87   
10.   Southampton    109   8.20   
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« Reply #24 on: July 07, 2012, 21:18:47 »

I suspect I will be easily identifiable in the next range of stats. Im visiting the site today from le tranche-sur-mer in the vendee region of France.would be interested where exactly it defines me as visiting from though!
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« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2012, 21:38:37 »

I suspect I will be easily identifiable in the next range of stats. Im visiting the site today from le tranche-sur-mer in the vendee region of France.would be interested where exactly it defines me as visiting from though!

I'll have a look and see what the overnight stats say about French visits then.
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« Reply #26 on: July 08, 2012, 08:39:44 »

I suspect I will be easily identifiable in the next range of stats. Im visiting the site today from le tranche-sur-mer in the vendee region of France.would be interested where exactly it defines me as visiting from though!

"Featuring France" ...

In the week to midnight last night, we had 33 visits from France.  On average, each visited 2.55 pages.  36% of the visits were to just a single page.  Here's how they were distributed:



By comparison, we had 5583 visits from the UK (United Kingdom), on average looking at 4.67 pages, out of a total of 6019 visits to the site. 131 visits can't be identified to their country of origin.  There were a total of 52 visiting countries, with single visits form some distant countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Uganda, South Korea and Saudi Arabia.

In the UK, there were more visits from each of Cheltenham (39), Yeovil (43), Staines (51) Guildford (55), Melksham (59) and  Teddington (67) than there were from the whole of France. Top 4 UK visiting cities were London, Bristol, Oxford and Bath, accounting between just those 4 for 2143 of the 5583 UK visits.  Amongst towns from which we had just a single visit were Addlestone, Basildon, Chatteris, Dartford, Eastleigh, Fleetwood, Gravesend, Hailsham, Ilkley, Kettering, Lancing, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Ormskirk, Pudsey, Ripon, Saxmundham, Tadcaster, Uttoxeter and  Wallington.
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« Reply #27 on: July 08, 2012, 16:32:42 »

It just goes to show what a well read site the coffee shop is.
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« Reply #28 on: July 08, 2012, 16:36:25 »

Quite - very impressive! Cool
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« Reply #29 on: July 08, 2012, 16:57:24 »

When I started to read this thread I was at Bridgwater. Now I'm approaching Weston-super-Mare!   Grin
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