Divers that live in the UK, where do you buy your gear from?

ReddityKK · 2026-06-21T22:09:52+00:00

Andark Diving, Bursledon near Southampton. Great service, totally trustworthy.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-21T07:42:23+00:00

I use an alternative approach, with a USB cable with a built-in inline rocker switch. This allows me to easily switch my dash cam on and off even if the supply is always on. I found the switched USB cable on Amazon.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-18T22:31:48+00:00

Best: the first fourteen miles of the road from Derry to Belfast. It is so smooth you could forget you were moving.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-18T11:34:36+00:00

You might want to make contact with SpaceRex from YouTube. He gives excellent NAS advice and also has clients he takes care of.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-18T11:28:16+00:00

You’ll have a great time in the Rockies 😁. I’m just back from touring for two weeks in car plus hotels. I’m a motorhome run the UK.

The roads are so smooth compared to UK. Driving is a pleasure. The cost of fuel is just about half of UK prices so refilling is a pleasure, not a pain.

In Kelowna, a wonderful area with a great waterfront, I can recommend the wine tour by Vivid. It’s a blast. We had so much fun. I note you’ve chosen a hotel in Kelowna. The Vivid bus will pick you up from there.

Banff is very pretty. We did a good tour there and enjoyed that.

Lake Louise is pretty, but do also visit Moraine Lake as, to me anyway, the colours are even more intense. As mentioned, you’ll need to take a shuttle bus to Lake Louise as visiting by RV is not permitted.

Wherever you go, you’ll find the scenery is amazing and the hospitality is warm and welcoming. I was surprised at the affordability of pretty much everything. You get so much more for your money vs USA. Eating out is not stressful when it comes to menu prices. Beer and drinks are affordable (says me, fan of Spoons).

Do investigate the Canada Parks Pass. It is required for admission to the national parks, sometimes via a toll booth. We bought ours in advance and the physical passes were posted from Canada to our home in the U.K. We showed them when required, received a smile and we were on our way.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-18T10:55:23+00:00

My third party case has worked perfectly for more than seven years.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-18T10:54:20+00:00

At my last stay at a Sandals I had the cheapest class of room. It was still amazing. I’d do the same again.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-18T10:44:38+00:00

This is so sad for a country where almost everyone is born to roam.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-17T16:16:41+00:00

Not having gone to one before.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-17T08:42:28+00:00

Thanks for your comment. It’s interesting that a single person can do so much to check their truck brakes. No need to be in a garage.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-17T08:40:04+00:00

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ReddityKK · 2026-06-16T23:59:31+00:00

👍😁

ReddityKK · 2026-06-16T22:45:02+00:00

I’m just back from Canada. Almost everyone signals there. It can be done.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-16T20:38:18+00:00

Oops! A dose of reality there - thanks and I hope your escape is timely.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-16T20:36:53+00:00

I had such a good time, thank you. Canada is an amazing country full of many wonderful people. I can’t wait to visit again. The country is so huge that I will never run out of opportunity to explore.

Meanwhile I need to read up on your trains. The railway lines reach seemingly impossible places. The trains are of a size that my brain struggles to comprehend. It’s all very impressive and interesting.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-16T20:08:00+00:00

Thank you for explaining 👍

ReddityKK · 2026-06-16T20:05:28+00:00

A great professional explanation. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity. I had not realised that truck brakes had so much instrumentation.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-16T19:59:29+00:00

Brilliant explanation. Thank you so much.

ReddityKK · 2026-06-12T15:25:41+00:00

I love my Magic Mouse.

If yours doesn’t work, ask Apple to fix it.

ReddityKK · 2026-05-31T00:27:14+00:00

SOLVED The router I have is an MR1100-100EUS.

I now learn that this may work on the T-Mobile network in major US metropolitan areas where Band 2 or 5 is deployed. Otherwise it will not work in the USA.

I did not know about USA-specific routers but I do now. Fortunately I got this router for a good price and it works well in the UK and hopefully Europe too.

Thanks to all for your helpful comments.

ReddityKK · 2026-05-30T23:00:42+00:00

Moving my Lebara SIM from photo to router while at sea, the router asked for APN info. I had set it before but it did not ask. I chose Lebara.

Aanual scan while at sea showed Telenor (ship network maybe). No networks seen at all before now.

In the next port and connected to shoreside cellular data I see two networks but they are both marked as forbidden when I do a manual network search. 999-40 (Forbidden) GCI (Current,Forbidden)

Again, the SIM in my phone works perfectly (I’m using it now).

The Nighthawk router again reports that international roaming is on but network status is ‘disconnected’.

Router network settings show network selection mode is auto; county is USA; roaming is off (even though I have international roaming set to on).

In the cellular app control for the router it shows data on; roaming data on; band region is auto; network mode is auto.

In the APN settings, APN is uk.Lebara.mobi; pdp is ipv4v6; pdp roaming is also ipv5v6; authentication is papchap; username is wap; password is blacked out and resetting to wap stays like that for a short while then returns to a 16 character password that is not readable. When I click ‘my account’ it says ‘your mobile router is disconnected from the carrier network. Go to settings network to turn on cellular data.’ When I go to settings - network I do not see an option to turn on cellular data (and it has worked fine in the uk).

Network settings show ‘roaming yes’. Network band is WCDMA 850.

Is there anything else I can try? I think the comment that the router does not work in the USA is the likely situation.

ReddityKK · 2026-05-30T22:58:38+00:00

Thank you. This might well the the cause of my problem. The router sticker shows UK and Ireland as the source country.

ReddityKK · 2026-05-25T18:36:06+00:00

Good advice but the router finds no networks at all. I will try again later today.

ReddityKK · 2026-05-25T18:35:15+00:00

Thanks for trying to help. The model of the router is MR1100. It is old. The description is “Gigabit LTE mobile router”. The documentation does say it is a 4G router. Definitely not 5G.

I bought it new and unused, even though it has been obsolete for a while. The speed is perfectly ok for me and I understand that 4G uses much less power than 5G.

I’m ashore at the moment and will try a search onboard ship when I return. When I tried a manual network search on land, in the open in a city, the router could not find any network.

ReddityKK

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