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Feraz:
Like I said earlier, they could not repair the phone, heck, they even destroyed some components. When I gave them my phone to repair, the screen was good but now, it is not even showing anything, the charging port area is somewhat bent and when plugged to a source, there's light at the button but it does not read even when plugged to a system. I do not even know if the screen is still good. I need thorough check up of the phone of which I was disappointed visiting CV.

What am I even saying?

Please, explain what you did. Do you know if I can deliver my phone to a repair centre in USA at this amount? Also, do they ship from China?

I don't know much about shipping from Nigeria to abroad cos I have done that before. I usually do the other way round and yes, they say they ship from China but I haven't tried that. I usually get my goods from the US. Kinda prefer their market.

Elxandre:
How many days did it take?

Takes 10 business days or 2 weeks approx at most. But like I mentioned earlier, my last shipment took longer to be delivered cos of elections.

You can sign up for free on their site or u can use my referral link below

https://www.shoptomydoor.com/invitations.php?parentid=36733

Cvesta:
The Shipping Is Pretty Cheap If $9 Is All It Cost.Hw Long Did It Take To Arrive And What Does Shoptomydoor Charge To Signup?

It is free to sign up and they have excellent customer service and update you as your package is in transit. Normally, it takes 2 weeks tops, from the day it was shipped, to get to my house. But my last shipment was delayed cos of the elections and spent almost 3 weeks cos it was being delayed by customs here.

You can sign up using my referral link

https://www.shoptomydoor.com/invitations.php?parentid=36733

UjSizzle:
You ordered from Amazon?

Yeah, from Amazon. They were having a sale when got it, hence the price.

Elxandre:
bro.
how much did shipping cost you?

$9. And that includes shipping, handling and tax. It will be delivered to your doorstep or any place you want. I use shoptomydoor for deliveries to Nigeria.

Cvesta:
hw did you go about the unlocking thing? via mail or chat? just bought an att 635 on ebay

Via their site and they replied to me thru mail. Fill this form on their site.
https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/#/

Feraz:
Are you serious? How did you do that?

Quite simple actually. They do unlock phones free as long as the phone satisfies their general requirements and you need not be a customer but the phone has to be originally locked to their network.

khattab008:
Waitin patiently for ur review, U bought d phone for $25 right?

$29.99 actually on Amazon. Just finished setting it up now. Will post some pix in the morning.

henryskywalker2003:
Alright folks. My Nokia Lumia 635 finally arrived today after much delays due to the election and Easter holidays. Will post pics and review of the phone later. Coming from Android, I'm kinda excited to see what the Windows platform has to offer.

Sequel to the above. I sent an unlock request to AT&T this afternoon for the unlock code and was told it was gonna take at least 2 business days for the request to be processed only for me to check my mail this evening and found that the request have been processed and the unlock code mailed to me. ALL FREE OF CHARGE. So, time to go do a little unboxing and setting up.

Alright folks. My Nokia Lumia 635 finally arrived today after much delays due to the election and Easter holidays. Will post pics and review of the phone later. Coming from Android, I'm kinda excited to see what the Windows platform has to offer.

Edygrin:
Brother Avast Internet Security 2015 is a combination of Avast business free and all other avast products. Pls i ll advice u to stop trying to correct everyone that has a different opinion to yours. @OP you can go for anyone you like but for me personally its AIS2015 or nothing

You are wrong there bro. AIS is NOT a combination of all the other products. It is only a combination of the features found in Avast Free and Avast Pro Antivirus plus two other features added to it. The highest version is the Avast premier that adds all those features of AIS and some extra features included. Check this link for details https://www.avast.com/compare-antivirus

MrsChima:
Can bi-sexual women join?

I hope you know he is a guy.

Hey misstechy. Keep it up. One thing I like about your blog is that you do keep it original and interesting too, and even when you report stuff you found elsewhere, you don't claim it as your original work. Quite unlike most bloggers here. Kudos

Ausra:
a whatsapp group simply known as
"Girls Club" has been created for
leboz only drop your number to get
added or add me +2348126325510
ladies only no guys thanks

Don't mind the foolish boy. His other moniker is Jraph and he is just creating lots of profile to do all sorts of rubbish here. This is his main line 08051599580 and facebook account https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=timeline&id=100004867157384&refid=17. Quite a jobless fellow looking for free sex chats and nude pics.

AT&T phones can be unlocked for FREE from their website as long as it fulfills the conditions stated therein.

Ausra:
Today is my birthday and I just turned 24hrs
And it's not by my power but by the grace of the Almighty today I'm very happy and for that I want to thank the Almighty for my live and show my appreciation by sending free data to all my fellow nairalanders at least you can make free calls and browse with it and may the Almighty bless the owner of this site and also bless Nigerians I like Nigerians and I'm happy to live among the Nigerian people

You can reach me on whatsapp and wish me happy birthday and I will send you a free data
08051599580

Everyone is welcome
Love ya'll

Jraph, how many accounts are you going to use on nairaland. Now you are girl going by Ausra. You be hermaphrodite ni?

EroticAngelina:
sorry to be so negative, but I can't help but notice how this woman does whatever buhari says, even if its nt good. she's like his robot.
where was she in 2011? why did buhari bring her out now(2015)? he doesn't know that her kind heart ness, beauty, brain and manner was part of what helped him win this election behind every successful man, there's a woman! if there's one thing he should learn from gej, its supporting women. we are in 2015, not 1989! women are human beings and should be respected. any man who does not respect women will never get my respect!
one, more thing... the office of the first lady is in our constitution Mr buhari, don't start ruining dis opportunity bfor they swear u in on may. I just pity ur wife. if I were her, I would av divorced u a decade ago.
#NoTime4Rubbish

Please dear, can you point me in the right direction, cos I can't seem to find the office of the first lady in the Nigerian constitution, and I have searched it cover to cover. Am I missing something or what?

For free. If the the imei is clean, not reported stolen and service payments are completed on the phone by the previous user. Fill this form and select the option that says you are not and AT&T customer and if you meet the requirements, they will email you the unlock code within 2 business days.

https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/#/

youngpol:
It is my picture on the display, how do you get around that? You think it's so impossible for one to forget their passwords? I only wanted another option to get my PC running other dan installing win7.

Anyway, i've done a clean Windows installation, and my files have all gone, and my PC is back to normal. Thanks all for your help. I'll try not to forget my password again

All I am saying is before anyone should start doling out such help, they need to be sure it is to the right person. None of us here are there to see the picture you say is on the login screen. They are only acting based on what you say and not what they know for sure. Nevertheless, you have already solved your problem.

Yeah right. You suddenly went on rampage and changed your password 11 times in one night. It is funny that you could remember exactly how many times you changed it but can't seem to remember what password you used.

As for those that are already offering tips. Be careful of who you offer information and tips to, you just might not know what they intend doing with it.

Facebook.... Being rejecting tecno users since year 0.

One is Q and the other is Z. Thank me later.

Ok. If u say so.

DanIndia:
You still don't get my point. What I'm saying is don't ridicule him. He did his by sharing his topology. It could be for a site and could be for labbing purposes. And by the way, your idea is an opinion, not a fact. People can connect their devices however they want. I understand you're explaining about core layer and access layers, we all are familiar with those terms.. those are somewhat at beginner's level. The guy who posted the initial topo was just looking to share. He never asked to be talked down on. For all I can gather, I don't think he implemented that on a live network and when he posted, he asked for ideas on how to make it better (I believe).
And believe me, you'll find really, really messy labs. Walk into some offices, you'd hate the admin for life, but still it runs and everything works just fine. I can tell you this from what I've seen. The lab isn't perfect neither is it that bad.
And if you take a closer look at the lab, I don't see so much loopholes in it, it's pretty neat. The left side devices are switches not routers and we both know switches are dummy devices, they are not as smart as L3 devices and hence VLANS and Switchport securities can take care of any form of threats posed to that part of the topology. The HQ consists of 4 routers which are inter-connected and are not connected to any devices that are outside the main site. The only drawback I noticed was router-on-a-stick which is not mandatory because of the devices involved and that again, doesn't really matter on how a designer would want his network to be. Not everything goes but as far as this topo is concerned, everything is connected to everything. And this term does not indicate you connect a PC to the core devices. From a networking term, I hope you get what I'm saying.

@DanIndia, WOW. For real I never ridiculed him in anyway nor talked down to him. He posted that and said it was an Enterprise network project (not lab) that he worked on last year. He concluded that with saying that questions are welcome. I then made an observation which any network admin would see at first sight about the design of the network. If you notice, I didn't comment on the second topology yet because he said it was an experiment and I felt I should address the project first since it is of higher priority than the experiment. No one would like to deploy a network today only to be called back in few months time due to performance issues. And that network, if it was really a large scale network is just an issue away from a catastrophic disater. My aim was to point out the flaws there so that he can correct them and learn from it in future deployments. True, people can connect their devices how they want, but that doesn't mean they will all be the same performance-wise. Just like you could create a patch cable with any combination you like but don't expect your cable to achieve the same 100 meters expected of a cable that followed the standard. The same applies to network design. A network poorly desgined from the beginning will only lead to future problems that you aren't supposed to have.

On your last but one comment, you made a very wrong statement and I quote "The left side devices are switches not routers and we both know switches are dummy devices, they are not as smart as L3 devices and hence VLANS and Switchport securities can take care of any form of threats posed to that part of the topology.". I can't believe you just said that bro. Wow, where do I even begin to talk about this one? I hope you know that there is a huge difference between a hub, bridge and a switch? I hope you know that there are multilayer and L3 switches? Capable of almost everything a router can do? Wow. I think we need to really do a hangout very soon. Honestly, if you are studying for CCNA you need to really brush up your knowledge on Switches and Switching cos they are quite more than you think they are. The entire network depends on the switches and if your switch design is bad, your network is bad. The router does very little in a network compared to switches. Anyways, I remember you suggesting watching videos on youtube for CCNA, I highly recommend Jeremy's series from CBTNuggets. It will blow your mind.

P.S. Note that I am not talking down or ridiculing you or anything. I would really hate to see a friend pay hard earned money to write an exam only to fail it because of the wrong ideas or knowledge. I have failed an interview for a job at a big firm because of poor network design and since then, I have always strived to be better than I was then, certification or no certification.

DanIndia:
@Henry, you really think there is a limit as to redundancy ? No, I don't think so. Not at all... and I don't think his topo is messed up at all. Have you seen CCNP lab topos ? There is no breathing space at all. I mean everything is connected to everything... and yes, I've seen live setups with even more redundancy. 6-7 years ago, you could say there is a limit but not these present days when a delay of secs is not permissible. You are kind of comparing your own topo with his, remember, this is a learning platform where people can mess things up, fix it again.. there is never a stage where you stop, you always, always go beyond. I'll try and get some CCNP topologies and post it here - then you'll understand why I said his topo isn't messed up at all. Why do you think Cisco introduced Eterchannel ? You haven't seen just two routers connected with like 5-6 links ? All for the sake of redundancy ? If you go VoIP, you'll get to see how many connections people use just to connect to a CO. Imagine, having one line through to a PBX and it's for a company, while that line is being used, all other lines are gonna get dropped and this may seem to be a little bit different from the current scenario its another form of redundancy.

@DanIndia, you are talking about labs, I'm talking about live topologies. You can go as crazy as you want in a lab topology, but when you try that in live topologies, that's when you run into issues. I myself have also seen live equipment with more redundancy than usual, but these are very large enterprise networks. I'm talking about ISPs here and really large organisations. As for the routers connected by 5-6 links, I can bet you that the network supports thousands of devices at the Access layer. Besides, you didn't even say anything about the network lacking a logical, hierachical structure. That alone shows a very poor design. Imagine trying to troubleshoot such a network or when you need to scale out the network. Where do you even start to add new switches when you want to scale out? As for a network where everything is connected to each other, that is one hell of a terrible network, you can quote me on that anytime, anyday. Everything is not supposed to be connected to everything. Instead, every device on a layer must be directly connected to every device on the layer above and below it. Hence, every access layer device gets connected to every distribution layer device but not the core or edge. The distribution layer gets connected to both the core and access but not the edge and so on. If you connect everything to everything how do you configure your security permissions and restrictions, QOS, etc. I actually studied CCDA as well as CCNA so, not just saying this for the sake of saying it.

Read these articles to help you understand what I am trying to say here.

http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=2189637&seqNum=4

http://www.nojitter.com/post/240151667/network-redundancy-or-resilience

weezii:
Driving traffic to blog is secondary. Teaching people how to save hard earned money by giving DIY tutorials is primary.

Kindly drop your own method here for everybody to benefit.

@temmytea70 don't give up. Try his method.

@Fulaman198 everyone isn't disposed to such bro

I have already told you my method which is using DAZ activator.

DanIndia:
You are somewhat correct on the idea of router-on-a-stick but for the sake of labbing I don't think there is a limit on to how many routers you want to configure or else if this topo is designed for a real live network site. And by the redudancy, You never enough to achieve redundancy o. You never know what links or what ports may go at whatever time.

@DanIndia, there is a limit when it comes to redundancy on a network. You don't go out to complicate your network just so that you can have redundancy. There should be a limit that when you go beyond, it starts impacting on your network's functionality and perfomance. Imagine doing a full mesh of 6 switches all in the name of redundancy. That is chaos for any network admin. Take a look at the network I posted. The Access switches have redundant links to each of the Distribution switches. The four links cannot suddenly go down at the same time. There is no ROAS, rather the two Distribution switches act as a gateway to the access switches at the same time. The router, then acts as a gateway for the switches and up there, it is purely L3 no more L2. The switches are connected to the router using L3 links and OSPF routes traffic between the 3. The router advertises a default gateway to the two switches (NOT BY REDISTRIBUTION) so the link from the router to any of the switches goes down, the other switch still gets the advertisement and forwards it to the switch that lost it's connection to the router.

snipesdam:
Perhaps you haven't experimented on redundancy on large scale. Am not disappointed that you said it poorly designed only if saw the running config. About the ROAS its a design which i choose inorder to implement VTP and ROAS isn't just done for small networks. Dunno why the image is blurry tried making better.

Also below you can find an experiment on split-horizon which i designed last xmas. Its frameRelay multipoint and branch can only be neighbors with the core via EIGRP routing protocol. But they are able to get update of the other branches subnets but NOT Neighbors.

Hi Snipesdam

Lol. I haven't "experimented" with redundancy on a large scale but I have actually implemented that. Now let me give you reasons why I say it is poorly designed based on what I am seeing on your diagram.

1. No one uses ROAS on an enterprise network if you want to implement redundany. If you can think back on the concept of ROAS, the vlans get routed using a single device which in your case is the router. Now the router isn't as fast as a switch is because it is software based unlike the switch that uses the ASIC which is a hardware implementation. Again, the way the ROAS works means that all the traffic comes to the router and exits it on a single port. Now imagine having a large amount of traffic coming and leaving the router on a 100mbps or 1gbps link. So, you will agree with me that ROAS isn't the way to go in this case.

2. Strictly speaking, I think you designed the network on the left to look good rather than to be functional, same thing for the bottom one. I mean, take a look at the way you arranged your switches. You didn't follow the basic hierachy of design which means that you should have an Access, Distribution and Core Layers, or at least have a Collapsed Core where you merge your Distribution and Core Layers. When STP kicks in, which it will or else you will have loops, All your redundant links will go down and you will effectively have only single working links at any given time, because the redundant ones will be blocked and hence not being used. So, in essence, you have a couple of links siting there doing nothing.

3. STP issues. Still on the network on the left, now, I don't know the config on those devices, but let's assume that the switch closest to the router gets elected to be the root bridge. Now, unless you specifically tweaked it, you know that what follows can be very random. Every switch finds the best way to get to the root bridge and still does that based on the same way that the root bridge is elected which means the oldest device/ lowest priority/lowest port number. So, imagine if the leftmost switch has a lower priority/mac/port number than that of the two switches connected to it and they in turn are lower than the other two, that means that the two switches closest to the root bridge will end up going all the way back to the leftmost switch in other to reach a root bridge that is directly connected to it. So, you need to re-arrange ur switches and optimise them for STP, which brings me to the next reason

4. STP presence. Looking at that network, it is obvious that you are using STP on the network. If you want a network with redundancy and high availability and very fast failovers, then you need to get rid of STP totally. This is 2015 for crying out loud, STP takes at best 15-30secs to failover. That is not good at all for any enterprise network. Even Cisco recommends that you get rid of STP on your network unless you ABSOLUTELY need it. So, designing an enterprise network with STP in mind and ending up designing it poorly isn't good at all.

5. Redundancy for the sake of redundancy is bad. You don't just start throwing redundant links just for the sake of it. Looking at your links, you even connected Access switches together which is also a terrible design. Access switches should ALWAYS be separate from each other unless they are feeding the same Vlans/subnet.

6. IP phones were eating up network ports. Why give your ip phones and PCs different ports when you can easily use one port on ur switch for an ip phone and a pc. The ip phones have an in built switch so, you can plug in your pc into the back of the ip phone and while the phone gets pluged into the switch. In the basic form, you can configure the native vlan of the switch to be that of the pc to still have your vlans working and if your switch supports it, you can configure a voice and access vlan on a single port.

I will like to see your configs on your network and also you ip address scheme.

Just took a second look at it, and I must say that for an enterprise network, it is poorly designed. Just looking at the network segment on the left is giving me a headache. And you mentioned doing a router on a stick, with all these devices you have in place here, why would you want to do an ROAS? That is for a small sized network with fewer devices. On yours, you have enough to achieve redundancy and no need for an ROAS. You actually tried to go for redundancy on the left segment but you went overboard with it. Same goes for the network at the bottom.

snipesdam:
Hello Guys, just decide to share an Enterprise network project which I work on last year. In also includes VOIP loads of other stuff, redistribution btw eigrp, ospf and rip. ACls, portsecuirty, NAT, FrameRelay, Router on a stick. etc

Your questions are welcomed.

Your pix is kinda tiny and I can't make out anything on it to ask or make a contribution on it. Can you upload a better quality image please?

Temmytea70:
Tried the both but to no avail.....they once worked on my pc but it showd d not genuine tin again and wen I tried the both solution,dey no longer work

Search for WAT remover tool. Use that first then reboot and use DAZ. Make sure u are using the latest versio of DAZ that allows u to do updates else, you will have to turn off automatic updates.

weezii:
Please read my comment well. It says "for me though.."

I read it again, and even read ur first post and took time to count the steps it will take to do it ur own way. It was 7 steps. Using DAZ, it is just one click. So, I ask again, this time let me personalize it. How on earth do you find it easier following 7 steps rather than one or two steps?

P.S. I know you are trying to drive traffic to your blog, but you can't do that by trying to convince us that black is white na.