Comments for Ben.geek.nz http://www.ben.geek.nz ...consuming experience Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:40:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Hey Orcon, can you hear me now? by PhilH http://www.ben.geek.nz/2010/02/hey-orcon-can-you-hear-me-now/comment-page-1/#comment-25010 PhilH Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:40:50 +0000 http://www.ben.geek.nz/?p=4722#comment-25010 Well we changed over to Ocon (Mt Eden exchange) a year or so ago, and as soon as we did so had a dead phone and dead braodband, was fixed after a several days, but have had on going problems since -phone calls dropping randomly and friends tell us when they call our land line they have a 50-50 chance of actually getting through (they get a disconnected line sound half of the time). Last thurday everything stopped working, no phone, no internet nothing. A technician called Friday so say there was a problem at the exchange and it was all fixed. I went home from work to check it out, and phone is still dead (but broadband now works)! Hopeless. Called tech support again and they are looking into it. Its now saturday and we still have a DEAD phone. Called tech support AGAIN and they tell me its being investigated. Great. They havent even setup a redirection so we at least receive calls to mobile while they fix it. Absolutely hopeless. I wouldn't recommend Orcon to anyone who wants a reliable service and a phone that actually works. On a side note, our alarm monitoring company called my mobile to say the houses security system is not doing its scheduled checkins (obvously), and when I mentioned we were having ORCON problems, they sighed and said its a familiar -they have other customers of Ocron having the same problem in Mt Eden. Hopeless. Well we changed over to Ocon (Mt Eden exchange) a year or so ago, and as soon as we did so had a dead phone and dead braodband, was fixed after a several days, but have had on going problems since -phone calls dropping randomly and friends tell us when they call our land line they have a 50-50 chance of actually getting through (they get a disconnected line sound half of the time).

Last thurday everything stopped working, no phone, no internet nothing. A technician called Friday so say there was a problem at the exchange and it was all fixed. I went home from work to check it out, and phone is still dead (but broadband now works)! Hopeless. Called tech support again and they are looking into it. Its now saturday and we still have a DEAD phone. Called tech support AGAIN and they tell me its being investigated. Great. They havent even setup a redirection so we at least receive calls to mobile while they fix it.

Absolutely hopeless. I wouldn’t recommend Orcon to anyone who wants a reliable service and a phone that actually works.

On a side note, our alarm monitoring company called my mobile to say the houses security system is not doing its scheduled checkins (obvously), and when I mentioned we were having ORCON problems, they sighed and said its a familiar -they have other customers of Ocron having the same problem in Mt Eden. Hopeless.

]]> Comment on Hey Orcon, can you hear me now? by Thomas http://www.ben.geek.nz/2010/02/hey-orcon-can-you-hear-me-now/comment-page-1/#comment-25009 Thomas Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:33:05 +0000 http://www.ben.geek.nz/?p=4722#comment-25009 Ben - what router were you using? I work for an IT support company, and we have had a number of clients with very similar problems on Orcon+, all using Linksys routers - the connection will drop after a few minutes at maximum load. It appears Linksys routers are incompatible with the Siemens DSLAMs Orcon are using - something to do with the priority of LCP packets, as far as we could tell. Changing to an Orcon-supplied Siemens router (Orcon BusinessHub) fixed the problem in all cases. D-Link routers also seem to work fine for affected connections. Ben – what router were you using? I work for an IT support company, and we have had a number of clients with very similar problems on Orcon+, all using Linksys routers – the connection will drop after a few minutes at maximum load. It appears Linksys routers are incompatible with the Siemens DSLAMs Orcon are using – something to do with the priority of LCP packets, as far as we could tell. Changing to an Orcon-supplied Siemens router (Orcon BusinessHub) fixed the problem in all cases. D-Link routers also seem to work fine for affected connections.

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]]> Comment on Things I learnt about the USA* by Tobz http://www.ben.geek.nz/2010/03/things-i-learnt-about-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-25003 Tobz Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:40:43 +0000 http://www.ben.geek.nz/?p=4811#comment-25003 I remember in Vegas was by 10pm the streets where littered(literally everywhere) with pornographic postcards, but early in the morning the pavement is clean as w... normal street. weirded me out. I remember in Vegas was by 10pm the streets where littered(literally everywhere) with pornographic postcards, but early in the morning the pavement is clean as w… normal street. weirded me out.

]]> Comment on Things I learnt about the USA* by parsley72 http://www.ben.geek.nz/2010/03/things-i-learnt-about-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-25002 parsley72 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:10:56 +0000 http://www.ben.geek.nz/?p=4811#comment-25002 Vegas is insane. It helped me understand why so few Americans ever leave the country - why bother when you can see England (Excalibur), Paris (Paris), Venice (Venetian), Rome (Caesar's Palace) and Egypt (Luxor) in one place? The amazing thing is it's not all tacky shite - the first time I went we saw an amazing Monet exhibition at the Bellagio (although the electronic voice guide was awful). Freakiest thing was seeing the rows of urinals at the conference facility proudly displaying the amount of water they flush - in the middle of a desert. Vegas is insane. It helped me understand why so few Americans ever leave the country – why bother when you can see England (Excalibur), Paris (Paris), Venice (Venetian), Rome (Caesar’s Palace) and Egypt (Luxor) in one place?

The amazing thing is it’s not all tacky shite – the first time I went we saw an amazing Monet exhibition at the Bellagio (although the electronic voice guide was awful).

Freakiest thing was seeing the rows of urinals at the conference facility proudly displaying the amount of water they flush – in the middle of a desert.

]]> Comment on Things I learnt about the USA* by Ben http://www.ben.geek.nz/2010/03/things-i-learnt-about-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-25001 Ben Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:02:33 +0000 http://www.ben.geek.nz/?p=4811#comment-25001 Are you sure it wasn't glaciers? Are you sure it wasn’t glaciers?

]]> Comment on Things I learnt about the USA* by keith http://www.ben.geek.nz/2010/03/things-i-learnt-about-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-25000 keith Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:29:52 +0000 http://www.ben.geek.nz/?p=4811#comment-25000 Meteorite Meteorite

]]> Comment on Things I learnt about the USA* by Stu http://www.ben.geek.nz/2010/03/things-i-learnt-about-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-24999 Stu Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:26:33 +0000 http://www.ben.geek.nz/?p=4811#comment-24999 The Grand Canyon is spectacular. However one of the biggest disappointments of my childhood was visiting said Canyon and being denied the donkey/burro ride down into it because I was under 12! The Grand Canyon is spectacular. However one of the biggest disappointments of my childhood was visiting said Canyon and being denied the donkey/burro ride down into it because I was under 12!

]]> Comment on The iPad Killer App by onefabknitter http://www.ben.geek.nz/2010/03/the-ipad-killer-app/comment-page-1/#comment-24994 onefabknitter Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:29:14 +0000 http://www.ben.geek.nz/?p=4768#comment-24994 like the iphone, you probably turn the ipad and the scientific calculator activates:P cant wait! like the iphone, you probably turn the ipad and the scientific calculator activates:P cant wait!

]]> Comment on Review: Blackbox C18 Noice Cancellation Earphones by AJ http://www.ben.geek.nz/2009/11/review-blackbox-c18-noice-cancellation-earphones/comment-page-1/#comment-24992 AJ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:18:15 +0000 http://www.ben.geek.nz/?p=4405#comment-24992 Ben, can you please comment on the relative cancellation of noise from the M14 and C18? It looks like the M14's have more active canceling but the C18's have more passive and therefore a higher total cancellation in terms of dB's. I am less worried about the purity of the sound as I am with removing as much background noise as possible! Cheers Ben,

can you please comment on the relative cancellation of noise from the M14 and C18? It looks like the M14’s have more active canceling but the C18’s have more passive and therefore a higher total cancellation in terms of dB’s.

I am less worried about the purity of the sound as I am with removing as much background noise as possible!

Cheers

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