Posts by ijs

Remember the bloke who was told by Zen Internet to contact his MP about crap service? Yeah, it's still not fixed

These issues are common.

My whole village suffers exactly the same issue irrespective of the ISP. The reason is Openreach, they own and operate the copper and some of the infrastructure.

I setup monitoring equipment across the village and the drops are random. These issues also cause slow upload speeds which is also a massive issue with TCP as timeouts occur resulting in more requests and more problems.

Every time Openreach gave me an excuse I modified the monitoring equipment based on RaspberryPi’s to account for there latest excuse at the end, i even included radio’s to monitor for radio frequency interference of which we had none.

The only solution was to get a FTTP line which solved the copper issue.

The real issue is that openreach unlike the ISP’s are not regulated, you cannot complain to anyone so there is no watchdog able to impose fines are get openreach to solve the issues. We need central gov to create a body that actually regulates all of the connection not just the bit that is customer facing. For some of us the ISP does not provide the copper and some of the infrastructure so its irrelevant which one you choose.

At the time of my faults, I wrote to my local MP and he did nothing. He even lived in the village so presumably had the same issues as the rest of us mortals.

Complaining to the ISP only eventually gets you to the point where they release you from contract early which is actually your right given that the service cannot be provided. You change to another ISP that is regulated but you still use the same first mile infrastructure so the issue is still there.

Samsung under fire over copy-paste bricking

its a reboot issue for me

just copy and paste 20 times and it reboots

I have an siii and I can confirm a reboot occurs if you use copy and paste too often. I just tried this on chrome and after 20 copies the phone just rebooted.

Samsung have known of this bug since july last year so support isnt that good.

If you follow the links in the article you can see how long they have known about the issue

Looks like I will have to go back to an Iphone

Samsung mobes pwned by ANY APP, thanks to chip code hole

Vodafone's UK response

They told me I had nothing to worry about. yo can read the transcript here.

http://mobilesandcellphones.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/samsung-s3-security-hole-vodafones.html

I have also asked Samsung to comment

Dixons drops exclusive Toshiba Android tablet

I sent mine back

I had lots of problems with mine and took it back within hours of purchasing it. I thought the one in the store had just been messed around with in terms of the lack of response, but after purchasing one I found out how wrong I was.

Problem 1.

Unit just stopped responding. You would press, press, press the icon and sometimes it work. Its supposed to have a decent processor but it just ignored my key presses at times.

The Samsung did not suffer the same problem.

Problem 2.

No diary. The unit would sync to gmail or to my corporate calendar but there wasn't an application to get access to this either included or downloadable from the Tosh store. Given this is a fairly standard feature on a smart phone and all other Android devices why leave it out?

Problem 3

Despite toshiba claiming it has flash. The sticker on the box stated it would be available at somepoint in the future. In other words no flash. I appreciate the ipad does not have flash but at least it works with respect to the other problems i experienced with the Toshiba.

From having one, its clear Toshiba wanted to rush this out and have the customer beta test the unit. This is unacceptable and I would love to know the reason for Dixons effectively pulling the product.