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Mid-Atlantic data outage - Post here if you have no data
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My company does that all the time too. Any time I have an outage I say "system upgrades" to my clients so everyone thinks it's at least down for good reason when in reality something is just F'ed up.
I just got one emailed pushed through but its V E R Y slow trying to use the interweb thingie.
I guess they plugged the cord back in really quick so they could say "See, we told you we'd have it up by noon".. "Oh, its not working again, that's a different outage".
I guess they plugged the cord back in really quick so they could say "See, we told you we'd have it up by noon".. "Oh, its not working again, that's a different outage".
I agree here are my last two speed test's this morning in Tulsa, OK.
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seriously people. there's no conspiracy. **** happens. anyone remember this major blackberry outage (one of several)? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3052158 because I do and i was affected- what do you do? DEAL WITH IT.
boy am i glad it isn't just my poor iphone...
Boston's out, western massachusetts out, maine is apparently out too...not sure if it's only iphones, but a guy with a blackberry on the train with me in Boston wasn't getting data with ATT either.
i suppose i'll forgive ATT if this is part of some upgrading so i get decent 3G speeds at times other than 1-5am, but i'm guessing it's just a big ol' failure of some sort...glad i'm not on the road looking for directions etc...this is why i want an offline mapping app...
Boston's out, western massachusetts out, maine is apparently out too...not sure if it's only iphones, but a guy with a blackberry on the train with me in Boston wasn't getting data with ATT either.
i suppose i'll forgive ATT if this is part of some upgrading so i get decent 3G speeds at times other than 1-5am, but i'm guessing it's just a big ol' failure of some sort...glad i'm not on the road looking for directions etc...this is why i want an offline mapping app...
LOL...good post. I read that rant and thought the exact same thing.
I just switched from Sprint because the problems with them were monumental.
I can handle a few hours of an outage...crap happens.
Still stone cold dead here in Lancaster. Interestingly, my Blackberry which has a Vodafone chip and roams on "Cingular" works fine. Email, browsing, IM, whatever....it all works. Also interestingly, I've tried to hit the iTunes app store several times using my laptop over Comcast's network and about half the time it works, the other half it puts up a message that it cannot be accessed, try again later.
You know, I wonder what AT&T and Apple were doing while the original iPhone was for sale? Did Apple show up a week before 3G launch and say "Oh yeah, this has 3G"? Because between outages (I'm on day 8 here) and this godawful excuse of an SDK for the phone, both of them look like a couple of deer in headlights right about now.
And yeah, you're damn right....the CEOs of BOTH companies should apologize. They're both looking like little more than a couple of fat, bloated, slow corporations with more money than brains.
You know, I wonder what AT&T and Apple were doing while the original iPhone was for sale? Did Apple show up a week before 3G launch and say "Oh yeah, this has 3G"? Because between outages (I'm on day 8 here) and this godawful excuse of an SDK for the phone, both of them look like a couple of deer in headlights right about now.
And yeah, you're damn right....the CEOs of BOTH companies should apologize. They're both looking like little more than a couple of fat, bloated, slow corporations with more money than brains.
Northeastern Mass, just got a page to load on 3G in Safari.
Shows 5 bars like usual, but is SLOWWWWWWW, like, 60kbps on 3G slow.
I guess the person I spoke with was right, its 12:00 here and the CSR said it would be back up by noon.
Shows 5 bars like usual, but is SLOWWWWWWW, like, 60kbps on 3G slow.
I guess the person I spoke with was right, its 12:00 here and the CSR said it would be back up by noon.
Yeah...because I'm sure if people don't call and complain AT&T will just decide their data network is no longer important and forget about the issue.
Yeah...because I'm sure if people don't call and complain AT&T will just decide their data network is no longer important and forget about the issue.
It's not necessarily that, it's that if more people call, AT&T can figure out how big or widespread the issue is (or was at this point for some)
I'm pretty sure that regardless of carrier, it would've been a "disaster." I know someone who works for Verizon. I can tell you first hand their network is far from the reliable rock they claim it is.
Not to mention, I'm so looking forward t the day when I'll WISH I had 2.0.2 running on my iPhone again, becuase Verizon's "enhancements" to phone UIs turn the phone into a useless brick. Yeah, I can so strive for that.
Yeah...because I'm sure if people don't call and complain AT&T will just decide their data network is no longer important and forget about the issue.
They weren't saying that AT&T will forget it...they were saying how AT&T will give it top priority instead of like second priority.
(of course I'm sure that the second most used cell phone service [and considering how voice is working fine] is totally at the end of AT&T's priorities
)It is slower than molasses here in downtown DC, and appears to be bouncing up and down like a ping pong ball.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/
For now, everyone should just watch the episode Over Logging to ease the pain.
For now, everyone should just watch the episode Over Logging to ease the pain.