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THATS THE POINT!!! 1x is the slowest internet available in naija!
whats the point in buying u 1x usb modem, if u want 1x just buy their box! uknow that starcomms landline box? ehn thats what speed that gives u. if u think thats fast then goodluck

if u want speed on starcomms u better be talking evdo or better.!
1x bawo!

OH NO!!! the dual purpose laptops strike back!!

hehehehe, mums the word before i get a mug or ashtray thrown my way but ya know if i was a conspiracy theorist id say a laptop is taking revenge on behalf of its badly treated predecessor

err last time i checked u sorry woebegone asses were so walking alone its scary! thank God for the provision of torres or y'all be jostling 4 17th. Lol

1x ? HELL NO!!!!

aint no guru but i think it largely depends on your luck and bargaining power!

especially if you are not too particular about the processor being intel. for example i saw like two weeks ago an amd processor with 320gb disk 4 gb ram webcam bluetooth wifi 15.5inch clearbrite screen, dvdrw for 92 grand!!!!!

iv even seen even similar or equally decent specs for less! there is a guy i see in comp villa who brings in topgrade used laptops who i saw the above specs but with an intel duocore who offered it to me for 75 grand!!

hey! those days of 150 180grand lappies are long gone!

i dunno o, but im pretty convinced starting a dial up connection in win7 cant be much different from theold ways in xp or vista!

hey look into the cp, the thing is usually pretty self explanatory. u just needto have the modem detected.

but if ms has still not included the capability of inserting apn in the settings u probably need trhird party software, ur phone pc suite or other software for the modem, nigeria networks are very finicky about apn, except etisalat.

are the modem drivers there or is the modem detected?

besides whenever i conect i noticed that the system time gets set 6hrs behind automatically. could that be d issue. i need 2 authenticate 2 set time so what has access to time daemon so freely?

i can only say dt you are selectively blind. fact!

sori bt isnt that wat bbm is for? u pple just dey buy things u knw nothing about nor wanna learn. its like hw iv seen pple say dt witout bbs u cant use a bb 2 browse. well sha crackberry.com is a good place 2 start

i dunno o! thot dt was what the modeswitch thingy did. humm d modem has started acting up again. dis time ping gave 75 percent return. 2nd time no return. u knw wat. do you know how to disable ipv6 permanently? i noticed in ip info that ipv6 is listed as host. maybe dts d issue. d modem works and conects fine. the issue is sending and recieving packets

and i did d wubi install via mounting d iso in windows! hmmn.

^^^dude can u help me with a key for that cfosspeed thingy? abeg ehn?

AHH FINALLY it seems we are growing up in naija to realise that all these marriage bull aint gonna cut it!
its not for everyone, she just may happen to be the type.

BUT

that is one thing, one the other hand she may just be messed up upstairs, esp if she is the type who then crosses 30-35 then gets beefed up against the world cos she aint married (u know all this hyde and jekyll personalities) in one breath she wants conformity and the pleasures that it sometimes brings, and at the same time she cannot cope with the thought of being hooked.

bottom line is, sorry to say, she is wired badly upstairs and she need help badly and quickly too. HAVENT U HEARD, NO PAIN, NO GAIN. THE GOOD THINGS (SWEET THINGS) IN LIFE COME WITH PAIN!! FCK, SH*T, PEE, MESS, LOVE, CHILDBIRTH ETC ETC ETC

hmmmn, the "female victim" of the "heartless man" syndrome!

you know once upon a time, they were "in love" so much that they got married and all that, now u paint the man as the beast!

this story of yours has been brought to the wrong forum becos even you the sympathizer cannot give us enough information to enable us know whats going on and proffer decent sound advice! sure its not a nice thing for the man to not look her side at such a time, but it takes a lot for a human being to behave in that manner even to a total stranger!! (fact)!!!

if she wants a divorce, well am pretty sure the man will give asap, as long as she doesnt want his money (afterall its being reported that she wanted the man's money). if its about that alone, the hey!!! BUT IF ITS ABT THE MONEY, WELL WE HAVE OUR CLUES!!

mtn is pretty fcked today o kai!!

yup, so long as the hardware u want to use works normally in linux and you know the settings.

iv done that with my fone countless times!!
whisper: ^{any kinda settings goes on eti anyway, its just the dial up no that must be correct and if u want to do what i think you want to do then dont use the default}

personally, i just connect the modem and choose any of mtn or zain connections and it works!


NB: where have u been since? u finally left that starcomms 1x box alone shey?

Mavor, mmnnnn green light? i like green too o! inbox me abeg folabiklan@gmail.com

Ok o! I hear una o! Some of us na gu-guru sha o!

True dt sha. It does go at times. Eg there was 1 crazy wknd just around d time zain launched d 2 apn and was hoarding it. I torified it and got one particular entry relay point in germany. Dt server was 56mbps throughput. I was peaking 180-200. It was like xmas. See ovanite dwnlding. I refused 2 disconnect it 4 2 days till they reset that server!

This days it guarantees 50-70Kbps standard. Faster at midnite. So semid could b right but guy on mtn? This last days? Well impossible is nothing sha o!

what i consider to be even funnier is the rate at which pple brag about these things.

they might as well go to mtn hq and raise a sign board saying see us and what we use. its annoying. for instance i personally know 5 mtn staff and i glo staff who frequent nl, in fact one of them introduced me to nl in 2005! now what do u think is their take on this c.r.a.p

anyway sha, cunny man die, wayo man go bury am 2yrs and counting

^^^ lol!! all these ph pple ehn, una no go lets us rest.

@ mav i think you said u wanna ask me sumtin? abi na someone else?

anyways no mind all these pple o, at times i go dey wonder whether na under mtn international server them dey live! afterall we use the same hardware and i can vouch for the network and signal strength at my location, yet we go dey see shots wey pass talk.

mtn has been slow for days now!! haba with all these shots, besides iv been using tor for like 2 yrs, e no dey fast like that lai lai! na miracle if e peak for 130 and that one sef e go drop immediately! no be someone connection u dey use? so what is that persons bandwith if u dey get 200KBps for remote location half the earth away!

@ lynx wassup with the files naw?

then i was on gtunnel site and it says its supported in wine now that i wanna try. fecking modem getting me irate!

^^^^^yeah so it seems and now its really slow!

just wish glo would launch their damn fibreoptic cable!!!

u kow im pretty sure sumtin is wrong with the modem or else mtn does something to them ota, becos i found that the default mtn config in it, which i cannot edit by the way, no longer connects, while if i create a profile and dial, it connects!!!

honsule, can u direct me to where and how i can get the firmware update, the mtn own doent work

then pls the files in my screenshot, they are the files in the modem, can u pls help me with copies of urs, i think the ones in my modem have been castrated by an antivirus program. the Resetdevice, Datacard setup and the sysconfig. i cant use them. when i click on them it does nothing. but the modem worked fine at the start and i think the turning point is the encounter with one USB vaccine program like that.

which kain chop knuckle? that dude is the villain of the piece
just wait till i get my hands on ur servers!!! too much of the usual movies

DC, DC, the great lion of the ncyber jungle, husband of the fine lonely NL chicks!!! gbam!!


@lynxnoon

have u used ur mtn modem today? i tried to connect mtn this afternoon both in ubuntu and windows and it refused to connect, saying remote server bla bla. then i tried zain in windows and it did connect.

i was scared o, i was beginning to think the modem is cooked. u know iv been thinking about this problem, i suspect i will have to flash the modem. i suspect that it was one windows antivirus program, one USB vaccine program that did it in. the program removes the autorun feature off any usb. i put the modem in a xp box that had that program and it did something to it. i think that is the last thing i can remember between when it worked fine in ubuntu and now!


unless otherwise there is something wrong with the modem physically. hmmmn, u know what, do you know how to reset the modem or flash the firmware? pls tell me AND

could u please copy that reset program in fact all those small programs inside the folder and put them here for me, the ones in mine seem to be damaged. i tried to double click the reset one but it dont work and the icons look like how those bad windows programs look. i think they are small, just add an extension and upload here, maybe if i can get to reset it it will be back to normal. cheers

Una get bad mouth 4 dis site sha! Dis thread shld have been locked or deleted since.


Lala is esnips back now?

And hw do u achieve d 5 naira thingy? Each and every time u want 2 conect? I bow 4 una o. Teach me abeg.

Nuff said.

Bigrovar n others pls look in my profile 4 my last posts and help me with that issue

it all boils down to tghe same thing. the money.

what i say is even at that, there will be a period when the change will be painful, but lets face it the users have no where else to go!! they are stuck to the name and logo windows. inspite of all the complaints about vista, why did we have a major migration? because the users are too lazy and too indoctrinated to be able to do that. they will complain sure, but in the long run will turn round to praise the move!

the big businesses are not gonna move. what should or would happen is all the programmers and co will have about a years head start to do their stuff for the new OS. its what the RC period is for!

but then i guess they dont want to release source code etc so we have to keep enduring while they try to reinvent the wheel! sad!

pls just look at my last posts in my profile, the bot keeps swallowing my posts

apparently linux cmds are now banned! u can only know in what direction to look for that kinda sacrilege!

the terminal output part keeps getting swallowed, humor me by looking at my last posts pls.

suffice to say whats there is that i run ping and it has no responses at all even when im connected

i run sudo lshw -C network and the modem connection is also not listed!

i want to trouble shoot the thingy. i need help.

WHAT IV TRIED SO FAR

lsusb lists it as Huawei but the model no as E220! surely that cannot be the issue?
even the networking wizard does that too but it does connect fine, just wont send packets

iv tried to use the net tools, ping gives no returns at all, or rather the first two packets get returns then zilch!!

sudo lshw -C network gives the following output:
fola@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 01
serial: 00:26:5c:a7:a7:ab
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:16 memory:d1100000-d110ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 00:26:22:1f:9e:aa
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.0.1-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:28 memory:d1000000-d103ffff ioport:2000(size=128)



suggestions on how to trouble shoot this thing. one mind tells me it may be dns issues, another says the usb modem is bad!


clearly it does not list the modem connection as a network connection!

the bot is swallowing my posts again. let me divide it into two parts. this is what i previously posted:

takes two to banter, but then mums the word. thanks bigrovar, sheesh it just gets annoying at times the way the overlords here provoke a man.

back to the thread!!!! pls i do need help, cos for 1 am simply stuck halfways here, am of two minds about this issue anyway.

i recently acqiured one of them 3g usb thingys, a HUAWEI E156G from mtn and promptly looked for the unlock code and unlocked it. it actually worked OOTB, well the first few days it seems, both in ubuntu and windows!

overnite i was trying to use my jaunty box at home and found it had a strange behavior, it would connect, work perfectly for like 5 mins then stop. its still apparently connected yet its not sending or recieving packets! the browser keeps spitting out error messages about not being connected.

at first i thot nothing of it, only to get to work and find that on my karmic box its the same, infact it worked for like 30 mins then stopped. i was surprised and after looking through and reconnecting it a couple of times, i gave up and booted into my vista partition to try it, at first the behavior was kinda the same, but after like three tries, it worked for 5 hrs straight with no issues (i was beginning to think it was the modem itself that was faulty but this made me think again)


im trying it in karmic again and its back to the same beat, on the same pc! my fone works just fine as a modem anyways.

so im trying to decide if this is a hardware thingy or just compatibility issues or if something has gone wrong somewhere settings wise.