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Hi, Anyone else having trouble sending email? My outgoing server is smtp.t-email.co.uk, outgoing server requires authentication =YES Network connection: The Internet (changed it to T-mobile internet but no difference) No proxy. I don't send much email but I think its been like this for 4/5 days. Anyone got a suggestion? Thanks FrankyG |
| Forum: T-Mobile · Post Preview: #906437 · Replies: 1 · Views: 472 |
| Posted on: Apr 7 2008, 11:45 | |
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Hi, I've just spoken to T-mobile retentions dept to negotiate a better deal for myself. My contract has already expired. I'm currently on Flext 25 WnW, HSDPA enabled. I had already bought a sim free HTC TyTN II, so don't want or need a new phone. After about 45 mins on the phone, I had agreed to Flext 20 , 6 months FREE internet access with 10,000 mins Eve and Wknd Calls. After 6 months I have to add a WnW package. Now, before the new tariff was applied, I asked the CSR to check that HSDPA would be enabled on the new contract. She couldn't find it on her list, so spoke to technical. She came back with the news; HSDPA is not available on Flext 20. Minimum tariff is Flext 25, and HSDPA is added automatically. Bummer. So I bumped it up to Flext 25 to get HSDPA. To be honest, it feel like I'm paying an EXTRA fiver to get decent internet speeds. I've got 7 days cooling off..in which time I'm going to be seriously looking at the 3 network. Has anyone succeeded in getting HSDPA on Flext 20? FrankyG |
| Forum: T-Mobile · Post Preview: #887647 · Replies: 31 · Views: 4,274 |
| Posted on: Jan 10 2008, 14:33 | |
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Found on the register HERE be sure to have a look at the comments on the article - conclusion is that the telco's need a good kick up the ar*e, start advertising fairly and charging the customer fairly. |
| Forum: Vodafone · Post Preview: #869556 · Replies: 16 · Views: 2,499 |
| Posted on: Nov 21 2007, 21:42 | |
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Would it be possible to set up an ad-hoc connection between the Asus and another wifi enabled device (Kaiser in my case) and make use of the Kaiser's Internet connection ? |
| Forum: Asus Eee PC - http://www.EeEasy.com · Post Preview: #858687 · Replies: 3 · Views: 1,051 |
| Posted on: Nov 13 2007, 13:24 | |
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Hi, Has anyone got experience with Bluetooth enabled car head units? I've been looking at a couple of Blaupunkt models, the MP47 and the MP57. The MP47 is bluetooth compatible - meaning that I would need to buy the additional Bluetooth module for full functionality. The MP57 on the other hand has bleutooth capablity built in. I basically want a unit which will stream stereo audio from my HTC kaiser , allow me to use the car audio system to make/answer phone calls while muting any music currently playing. If anyone has recommedations I would be please to hear your thoughts? I'm not really into car audio, so don't want to spend that much. I'm going the USA shortly and will definately be having a look around to see if I can take advantage of the exchange rate at the moment. So any US products would be fine also. Thanks for any help! FrankyG |
| Forum: The Lounge · Post Preview: #856711 · Replies: 0 · Views: 622 |
| Posted on: Oct 10 2007, 15:45 | |
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QUOTE(Mysterious Stranger @ Oct 10 2007, 16:41)  Too much info? Damning with faint praise? Not that it's praise, but be saying 'he's taken his slurs offline into PM's' implies he's done the right thing to make it private yet his argument is still poor. Surely just 'markukcouk has pm'd me to continue discussion' would have done?.... M.S Dude - you're an argumentative type aren't you? Are you having a bad day? PMT? |
| Forum: The Lounge · Post Preview: #848556 · Replies: 165 · Views: 10,269 |
| Posted on: Oct 10 2007, 15:30 | |
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QUOTE(crazyc @ Oct 10 2007, 16:13) However, some of the others here seem to have taken this rather personally and expressed severe doubts over your integrity as far as I can see (and quote frankly been downright rude). I have only been a member for a year but have seen nothing to indicate that this is justified. From a neutral point of view such postings detract from this discussion and forum generally. here here ! That's what I don't understand in the tone of Mysterious Stranger's posts - it's like he's trying to get Paul to admit that he was wrong, or at least that he made an error of judgement in posting the full clip from Florin_m  In the end Paul did make a judgement, posted it and informed everyone that a response was being sought from POF. Paul was doing his job. If Mysterious Stranger were to be news editor, he clearly would have taken a different approach. So we've got different points of view, deal with it. Mysterious Stranger - you're not news editor, please don't call into question someone's intergrity (the modaco plus snipes) because they choose a different approach than you would have. And no - I'm not Pauls Lawyer or PR Guy  FrankyG ps Mysterious Stranger - haven't you in effect used this medium to call Paul 'Unfair' in his reporting? pps [refrains from further postings in this topic....] |
| Forum: The Lounge · Post Preview: #848541 · Replies: 165 · Views: 10,269 |
| Posted on: Oct 10 2007, 14:11 | |
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QUOTE(tsutton @ Oct 10 2007, 15:08) I think everyone made their point and everyone will have to agree to disagree with each other. How about... *drum roll* Locking this thread and move on... there are something better out there. OR.... Creating a poll. Was the the original news item Fair reporting. YES or NO? I would vote YES  Go on...Poll..Poll!! |
| Forum: The Lounge · Post Preview: #848470 · Replies: 165 · Views: 10,269 |
| Posted on: Oct 10 2007, 13:45 | |
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QUOTE(Mysterious Stranger @ Oct 10 2007, 13:09) You asked 'at the time of posting'. Not before posting...and you didn't wait a day for his reply! Was this story so time-sensative you just had to run and be damned? His explanation seems pretty sound to most commentors. Imagine if print / television media ran an inflammatory story without fact checking or waiting for a response / rebuttal. There'd be lawsuits a-plenty! And I wholeheartedly agree. But in the interests of the readership it should be accurate, not posted and corrected / added to afterwards. You assume that readers will do their own followup. If it had been posted in the lounge etc then perhaps. Casual / RSS readers however, who don't follow up on news stories themselves will have left with the impression the Pof is a theif 'cos it says so in Modaco news! If they don't come back to the thread again they'll always think that. And that's down to you. A personal rant on a company webpage can be dismissed as a vendetta, copying it into a news item on a respected windows mobile website elevates it onto another level it may or may not deserve. How did you try to contact Pof? Directly? PM through modaco? Through XDA-devs? Through his website? Through WHOis on his domain and getting a phone number? Something as serious as repeating an allegation of theft would warrant extreme measures to get the other point of view before posting IMO. M.S Hey, Mysterious Stranger- are you POF's lawyer or PR rep? It sounds like you've taken this issue quite personally and won't let go of it. You may have a valid point about Paul posting the original rant prematurely - I for one formed a negative view of POF the moment I read it. However, I feel that Paul would have equally posted similar accusations made against Florin_m assuming it was equally newsworthy. It's up to the individual reader to investigate a story if it's of sufficient interest to him, or don't bother. Do you believe everything you read? It would be a fool who did. With that knowledge, each of us can choose to fully investigate a matter before coming to our (well researched) conclusions. Thats' why I for one headed over to XDA Dev to read more, and subscribed to this thread for the inevitable response. The fact is - as Paul has stated - the item, including the accusation, IS NEWSWORTHY. Your point about TV and Newspapers running articles before all the facts are checked...errr...THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME!! If you're materially affected by a story/web page/blog post or whatever - then you take it up with the accuser. Sure, in due course THE PUBLISHER may have to print a retraction, an apology or clarification. But that doesn't make the original item less newsworthy. IMHO  FrankyG |
| Forum: The Lounge · Post Preview: #848461 · Replies: 165 · Views: 10,269 |
| Posted on: Sep 11 2007, 11:54 | |
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QUOTE(FrankyG @ Sep 7 2007, 17:55) I'm just back from a short trip to Berlin. While I was there I took a day trip to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which was a rather surreal experience. Although actually being there packs a bit of an emotional punch - it's still impossible to get one's head around what actually happened there (and other camps). To describe the level of brutality, acts of cruelty and fiendishness which were perpetrated by the Nazi's is literally beyond words. Which got me thinking. What were the reasons behind the acts of brutality, and more fundamentally - how could the individual commit such atrocities and justify it to himself? I'm coming from the assumption that the vast majority of humans would be repulsed by the idea of inflicting pain, suffering and tortures on a fellow human being. While I believe that statement to be generally true, it's also true that given the correct 'incentive', there are many who WILL inflict pain, suffering and even death to another. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment for some background. The experiment can also be seen on youtube also. What would you have done? at what point would you have stopped administering shocks, or would you have continued to the end? Statistically, most of us would have administered a lethal shock. "Not me!" you are saying...? How can you be sure of what your reaction would have been? What I find quite disturbing is that in the experiment there was no threat of punishment if the teacher decided to walk out or stop the experiment - yet most continued despite hearing shrieks of pain from the next room! In the case of the Nazi's, an individual could realistically expect to be punished, even executed, for refusal to carry out an order of a superior officer. Even if that order was to kill an innocent person. The consequence of listening to one's own conscience, of being guided by your own moral compass would have been extremely risky, to say the least. So how do you *think* you would react in a kill or be killed scenario? For the purposes of the poll lets assume that the 'accused' is not military, nor have they been found guilty of any crime. If you select 'Other', what would you have done? Many people say that another Holocaust could never happen again, I truly believe that it could given the right circumstances. After all, does human nature really change with the passing of time? What do you think? Regards, FrankyG ^^ Too heavy for everyone I guess.....^^ |
| Forum: The Lounge · Post Preview: #841853 · Replies: 2 · Views: 488 |
| Posted on: Sep 7 2007, 16:55 | |
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I'm just back from a short trip to Berlin. While I was there I took a day trip to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which was a rather surreal experience. Although actually being there packs a bit of an emotional punch - it's still impossible to get one's head around what actually happened there (and other camps). To describe the level of brutality, acts of cruelty and fiendishness which were perpetrated by the Nazi's is literally beyond words. Which got me thinking. What were the reasons behind the acts of brutality, and more fundamentally - how could the individual commit such atrocities and justify it to himself? I'm coming from the assumption that the vast majority of humans would be repulsed by the idea of inflicting pain, suffering and tortures on a fellow human being. While I believe that statement to be generally true, it's also true that given the correct 'incentive', there are many who WILL inflict pain, suffering and even death to another. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment for some background. The experiment can also be seen on youtube also. What would you have done? at what point would you have stopped administering shocks, or would you have continued to the end? Statistically, most of us would have administered a lethal shock. "Not me!" you are saying...? How can you be sure of what your reaction would have been? What I find quite disturbing is that in the experiment there was no threat of punishment if the teacher decided to walk out or stop the experiment - yet most continued despite hearing shrieks of pain from the next room! In the case of the Nazi's, an individual could realistically expect to be punished, even executed, for refusal to carry out an order of a superior officer. Even if that order was to kill an innocent person. The consequence of listening to one's own conscience, of being guided by your own moral compass would have been extremely risky, to say the least. So how do you *think* you would react in a kill or be killed scenario? For the purposes of the poll lets assume that the 'accused' is not military, nor have they been found guilty of any crime. If you select 'Other', what would you have done? Many people say that another Holocaust could never happen again, I truly believe that it could given the right circumstances. After all, does human nature really change with the passing of time? What do you think? Regards, FrankyG |
| Forum: The Lounge · Post Preview: #841270 · Replies: 2 · Views: 488 |
| Posted on: Aug 9 2007, 16:07 | |
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Damn it! I wish I had come accross this before I went to Sweden and Denmark!! 10 days and cost me over £100 for (relatively) few texts and phone calls. As THEY say "you live and learn".....  |
| Forum: T-Mobile · Post Preview: #836042 · Replies: 18 · Views: 3,628 |
| Posted on: Jul 1 2006, 23:57 | |
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QUOTE(mobieg @ Jun 29 2006, 23:59) do you not know how to use the support pages on orange's website where you can download settings! ....and incorrect  Settings for M5000 are not on the Orange site. It's a location issue. I was away from Glasgow this weekend and 3G was working fine. Frankyg |
| Forum: Orange · Post Preview: #793318 · Replies: 9 · Views: 843 |
| Posted on: Jun 29 2006, 15:39 | |
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I've hard reset - still can't connect to the 3G network! I went into the local Orange shop to ask them about the problem, where I overheard a guy in the queue saying he was having problems with the network also. I spoke to him and yep, it was a 3G phone he has. Same as me, no connection for the last few days! (annoying, as I've paid for the 'World cup data bundle!) So looks like it could be a local issue... fingers crossed. FrankyG QUOTE(mobieg @ Jun 27 2006, 23:51) i think you need the orange world settings. |
| Forum: Orange · Post Preview: #793287 · Replies: 9 · Views: 843 |
| Posted on: Jun 27 2006, 15:55 | |
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It's set to connect to orangeinternet. I ended up deleting all the 'Orange World' settings - but now can't see how to add all the settings back in! When I deleted the Orange World settings, it left me with a group called 'My ISP' under which you can add various connections. I did speak to someone else at 156 - who says there is a problem with the masts in Glasgow! So who knows what the problem is QUOTE(sporkguy @ Jun 27 2006, 15:24) LOL @ the birmingham postcode reference.. back on topic, what APN is the M5000 trying to connect to, 'orangeinternet' or 'orangewap'? AFAIK it shouldnt make all that much difference, but when I had a 6630 it sometimes refused to connect to 'orangewap' when I was in UMTS mode, yet would work perfectly in GSM. 'orangeinternet' however (with the username Orange, and blank password) would work perfectly in either mode. |
| Forum: Orange · Post Preview: #793252 · Replies: 9 · Views: 843 |
| Posted on: Jun 27 2006, 09:23 | |
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Hey all, My device is M5000, but It won't connect at 3G speeds although I got full signal strength in a 3G area. (Error msg:Cannot connect for an unknown reason. Check your settings blah blah....) If I change the BAND of the M5000 to GSM only, then it will connect no problem at the lower speed using the same settings. Can someone in Glasgow check to see if they can get a 3G connection? Is there any reason this could be happening? I can't figure it out (yes I've called 156 and they say all is well in G1 postcode...althought the guy said to me 'is that Birmingham?!!') Thanks for any help! FrankyG |
| Forum: Orange · Post Preview: #793250 · Replies: 9 · Views: 843 |
| Posted on: Apr 6 2006, 21:46 | |
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QUOTE(sporkguy @ Apr 5 2006, 11:46) Welcome to both of you frankyg: the cheapest talkplan on Orange is the old YourPlan Talk 60 @ ?19, but they may try to force you onto one of the new 'core plans' - which will get you 50 mins for ?19. Same price, either way. Ok, thats clear - but what about a Data ONLY plan? Is that possible? I want to change the cheapest possible monthly plan (data or voice), cancel my contract when the first 6 months are up and buy myself out of the remaining 6 months. If anyone can suggest the best way to do this...I'm all ears. Cheers, FrankyG |
| Forum: Orange · Post Preview: #791647 · Replies: 38 · Views: 3,112 |
| Posted on: Apr 5 2006, 09:06 | |
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Hi, After looking at O's new price plans and calling up CS to tell them that they were still rubbish...I think its time to say goodbye to Orange. Is it stiill possible to switch to a data only tariff and then buy myself out of contract for the remaining term? Does anyone know what the lowest pssible tariff is , it's not clear on the Orange website? My contract doesn't expire until 17th November. Also, should I be able to keep my M5000 doing this? I'm not allowed any tariff change until next month anyway...maybe O will do something about their data charges by them....then again... hello t-mobile :-) |
| Forum: Orange · Post Preview: #791585 · Replies: 38 · Views: 3,112 |