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On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:12 PM, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
Hmmm...
I believe the connectivity problem is down to the vast numbers of windumb botnets trying to get traffic in and out of CN and most of the Far East nations through international links. (Wireshark will verify that.)
oo that's bad....
Got a site that isn't live yet but the bot traffic from EC2 (Amzn) is just amazing - its all scripted and timed - you would think the ISPs and server space providers would block the URLs based on known attack pattern and get rid of this traffic to free up the international links by now :(
jaezuss.
Anyway to business - the business cards you are uploading are bad resolution - a sub $200 4G phone can over fix that. Amazon CN deliver twice per day :)
does it come unlocked, support total replacement of the OS down to the bedrock, and provide the full source of all firmware for all on-board ICs? i know the answer's no, so I won't be getting one.
If you can get to the Shenzhen SEG market - very tall building. Big adventure in there. If you want best prices for low tech items such as connectors, capacitors etc, stand outside the SEG building at the busiest traffic street corner that faces the SEG building entrance. Then look left and see obscure looking low rise building. Cross road and go to the ground floor and never look back. Its tech nirvana in there. Need 2 or more days to look over it.
honestly, i'm done. the ladies from jihang, as mike explained today, appear to be part of a.. what's the word... there's many groups of people like them - a cooperative if you will - where they all share the same database. except the owner of jihang electronics has pretty much memorised the *entire* database.
that and the fact that they were willing to be there during the holidays, tells me what i need to know. they had time for a westerner (me), when several of the suppliers were really very rude (clearly didn't want any business).
now, if i was looking to source 100,000 components it would be a different matter: i'd go haggling on price. but honestly it's worth paying a small percentage more just to be able to go to the one single supplier.
l.