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Welcome to Gav's World

Whether you've stumbled onto GavsWorld through some obscure search that you performed or you're a regular reader, I'm sure you'll find something here to entertain or inform you.

Where did GavsWorld come from? Well here is the detailed history of GavsWorld.

Since I'm a bit of a gadget geek, I've decided to share any experiences / tips / tricks with gadgets and computers - starting with my Asus Eee PC 701 (which was sold to help fund my Asus Eee PC 901 which in turn was sold to help fund my Motorola Xoom) with more items to follow, I'm sure!

Along with that, there's always my real ale ratings for you to be having a look through. You may agree with some of them, you may not - I don't mind ... it's just a bit of fun at the end of the day :-) Of course, if you like drinking, then you may like to play some drinking games.

Of course, my latest hobby is SCUBA Diving and you can find out about all of my antics under the water!

A good friend, Mark Naples made a self financed album in 2003 called The Insignificant Man which I did some of the photographic work for. The album is available to buy from here and Mark will even sign every copy. There are samples of a few tracks to give you a taster.

I've had requests from various people about the software that drives the website, so I've decided to make the software available for download, free of charge (for non-commercial use). It may take a wee while to figure out how it all hangs together, so I have fully documented the whole thing in the website template, so please read through before asking questions.

Since I have your attention (I know that since you're still reading this), how about checking out my charity pages where you can still sponsor my dodgy moustache(s)!

Anyway, have a browse and feel free to contact me.

Latest News

2025-03-09 : New Gigabit Network

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After moving into my new house in August 2024, and adapting the CAT 6 wiring that was already installed (to the lounge and big bedroom), I've at last routed a cable through to my wee office (I'd previously used Netgear PLP1000 Powerline Extender and then a TP-Link TP-WA1201 AC1200 Access Point configured in client mode.

Neither of which were particularly fast (the Powerline only achieved 70Mbits/s which I attribute to all of my mains filtering on the PC and AV equipment) and reliable (the AC1200 had to be reset every now and then as throughput would drop into single digits).

So now, my whole house (or at least where I have computer equipment) has Gigabit Network installed!

Looking for a new Internet Service Provider? I'm with PlusNet and I'd highly recommend them - if you follow that link, I'll even get a discount off my monthly bill! :-)