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| Thread ID: 21681 | 2002-07-01 10:07:00 | ISP woes | Elwin Way (229) | Press F1 |
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| 58936 | 2002-07-07 06:03:00 | Thankyou Rod J Thats exactly the link i was looking for! |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 58937 | 2002-07-07 06:54:00 | Nice to see it's generating interest :D I have put up a results page (pages.quicksilver.net.nz) for those who are interested. Yep, do your maths - only 10 results so far... ;) |
Elwin Way (229) | ||
| 58938 | 2002-07-07 08:36:00 | I'm posting this from my friends computer, I have just installed a US Robotics 33.6 Sportster Voice modem & the first time i dialled into slingshot I got the message "unable to establish connection". The second time I dialled up I was able to connect at 31200bps. Whilst I was typing this posting I got disconnected :-( Hardly surprising really as I never thought the problem was with our computers or modems. I will be emailing the Manager of slingshot asking him to sort it out . cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 58939 | 2002-07-07 10:07:00 | I have now sent the following email to slingshot helpdesk. To The Manager of Slingshot Dear Sir, My name is Steve askew & I live in Upper Hutt. Over the last 2 months Myself & 2 friends (lance01 & khanson ) have had major problems connecting to your Wellington dial-up number. I have sent quite a few emails to the helpdesk & I have tried all their suggestions,Including telecom checking our phone line ,entering int strings to force modem to connect at slower speed,I have tried both our computers, 1 has a connextant 56k.V90 modem with winXp & our 2nd computer has an ISA 56k.V90 etech modem with Rockwell chipset Running Win98se,both using the latest drivers available,I have tried my slingshot dial-up on my fathers computer running an LT Win modem & win98SE & had the same connection problems,I have also tried tonight a 33.6k external US Robotics sportster voice modem modem on Deon Ross's (lance01) computer with the same connection & disconnection problems.I also know of some one in Porrirua having same problems. I would urge you to investigate these problems in Wellington before you start losing customers. I can be contacted at 04-_ _ _ _ _ day & night or email sigma@slingshot.co.nz Regards Steve Askew. I hope to hear something back tomorrow. cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 58940 | 2002-07-07 10:41:00 | Go steve!!! I'm bloody glad people stand up to those who take the $$, and fail to deliver. I'm glad slingshot are around though, i'm spending ½ my time accessing pressf1 through a dial up computer i'm supposed to give back soon, coz cable paradise is live only ½ the time for me now... Appparently the level2 team (whatever the **** that is) are going to give me a ring for this "urgent" fault when they can sometime Saturday afternoon.. oops thats gone... No phone call, certainly no visit from the nice telstra man with a new cable-modem in his hand. What happened to service in this country? ...oops thats gone too SHEESH!!!! |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 58941 | 2002-07-07 11:01:00 | Hey Chris at least you can get cable, In august 1999 saturn put a leaflet in our mailbox saying "We will be in your area in the next 6-8 weeks" What a joke, they turned up in may 2001 & dug up our street & laid cables all over the place. Then the technicians moved in & worked for about 2months in the little green boxes. Then they were gone & the network they installed in our street has laid idle for over a year now. :-( & the local telcom exchange doesn't support jetstream so I guess we are gonna be stuck with dial-up for some time yet. cheers steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 58942 | 2002-07-07 12:08:00 | Steve, Let me get this right....... *cleaning ears* *rubbing eyes* Telstra littered the street with green boxes, over 2 years ago, buried the local cables, and havn't gone live yet?????? That definatly goes in the WTF dept! Here in CHCH they have had the momentum of a small fully loaded train! |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 58943 | 2002-07-07 12:15:00 | >Then they were gone & the network they installed in our street has laid idle for over a year now they where just copying telecom. after all telecom dug up a chunk of auckland, installed cable, used it for around 6 months? , then pulled the plug. as far as i know its not in use anymore. cable hacking anyone? turn it into your own network? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 58944 | 2002-07-07 12:29:00 | Heh, that wouldn't be the Ponsonby fiasco would it? I didn't realise that they actually used the cable at all.. I moved outta Auck about three years ago. |
Elwin Way (229) | ||
| 58945 | 2002-07-07 20:23:00 | Chris, it would be at least 12mths that telstra cable has been idle here(since techies left) I sent testra an email asking when we would be offered services & after a week they replied saying "they couldnt confirm as they were still negotiating with the utilities company(united networks i think)" There is an overhead section about 1.5km long between our subdivision & the live telstra cables, & telstra want to hang their cables on the the lamp posts which i believe are owned by united networks. You would think they would carry on with the trench & get our mini network live as there is about 250 houses in the area. My Mum & sister live in christchurch & have had telstra close to 12mths. Hmmm lucky them..... cheers steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
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