Dave is sick of getting emails asking if the cheap toy DSO’s and FPGA/PIC/AVR oscilloscope kits are worth buying. Guess his response… answers by telepathy please. Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

Are Telstra (Bigpond), Australia’s largest Internet Service Provider deliberately throttling (capping) Youtube bandwidth on all of their plans? Try it yourself: https://www.youtube.com/my_speed My speed: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/MyTelstra.png Other Telstra customers: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra1.png http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra2.png http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra3.png http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra4.png Other ISP’s: Internode: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Internode.png Netspace: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Netspace.png Optus: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Optus.png TPG: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/TPG.png Exetel: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/exetel.png iiNet: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/iinet.png Podcast: Download

Doug Ford shows us how he designed his own 1000:1 high voltage oscilloscope probe. http://www.dfad.com.au and the Oscilloscope probe tutorial: http://dfad.com.au/links/THE%20SECRET%20WORLD%20OF%20PROBES%20OCt09.pdf Podcast: Download

Please excuse the OT post, but I need a favour from my Australian viewers. Can you go to www.youtube.com/my_speed and email me a screen capture (PNG is best) of what you get and also (importantly) let me know which ISP you are using. Telstra are screwing me and throttling my …

Let’s destroy some multimeters and shoot some metal with Doug’s high energy 4KV capacitor discharge unit. Visit Doug at www.dfad.com.au Podcast: Download