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Major Problems with Cingular Network
Wabin writes "It looks like the Cingular GSM network is having serious trouble. My phone stopped working today completely, though my wife's was still able to make outgoing calls. Talking to tech support, they claimed some kind of massive failure across the country starting around 4PM yesterday and possibly a virus attack. Howard Forums is all abuzz, but there really doesn't seem to be any hard info. Glad I haven't totally given up the land line yet... redundancy is good."
I love how people blame phone companies for mobiles phone problems. Really, Motorola phone, try blaming motorola.
I havnt seen any good benchmark sites for phones, but seems there would be a need when you can pick 20 types of phone for each carrier. Even nokia alone has 50+ phones that might work on a carrier, and each have different problems, battery life, attenna strength, etc.
Sorry it's offtopic, but... This is EXACTLY why firewalls are virtually useless on corporate networks. I have gotten in so many arguments with so-called "security experts" that are convinced they don't need to bother with keeping internal machines up to date, because the magic of the firewall will protect them. Instead, they don't do much more than foul up legitimate traffic and lead management into a false sense of security.
no offense, but that is the kind of geek behavior that scares people away from geeks, rather than accepting them. most "geek-phobia" comes from geeks being ultraelitist and scoff at regular users who just don't understand and know better. so i'm glad you made your point, had your fun, and kept your job, but maybe if you tried to reason things out in laymen's terms you'd better the world a little bit more.
just my 2 cents though
I then asked him, "Look at it from my perpective. I am a consulant and if someone can't reach me, I loose money. Even a small contract usually totals several thousand dollars."
...and looked at the fact of the time it would take to call all of my clients and tell them I have a new number and the fact it would cost me about $8.50 more a month with Altell...
and
So, it's you're business phone, and your livelihood depends on its reliability, but you balk at $8.50 more per month for decent service?
I actually cut a CEO's network cable in half (in front of him and his just-about-to-faint secretary) for doing something quite similar.
If you can't deal with a CEO plugging his virus-infected laptop into your network, that only goes to show that your internal security and antivirus measures suck. Your network won't be secure and reliable unless you can prevent virus infections from spreading internally.