Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Saturday, 15 March 2008 09:53
Opinion and Analysis
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As a visitor to the Saturday qualifying round of the Melbourne F1 Grand
Prix (as a guest of Sensis), I’ve been mixing work with watching the
cars spin around the track, trying and failing to get my Next G
connection to work properly. Yet, I’m posting this story, with ‘old
technology’ coming to the rescue!
Sensis, a division of Australia’s dominant telco, Telstra, have invited me to the Saturday qualifying round of the Melbourne F1 Grand Prix, and I’m here right now as I type this article.
Yes, I should be enjoying the atmosphere and the ultra loud squeal of the engines as the cars whiz by, and I am.
But I’m such an Internet addict that I took the opportunity to ask Sensis about claims their search experiences are below par in a story I published
yesterday, with Sensis
claiming they’ve made big changes and are asking users to give them another go, although whether users will, or won’t, is yet to be seen.
And as I have my computer and my wireless card with me, why not publish their response now? I’m an online technology journalist after all, I don’t have to wait until I get home, or wait until Monday.
Although I’ve covered those stories already in the links provided above, I noted that my Next G wireless Internet connection, which is part of Telstra’s 3.5G HSPA network on the 850Mhz frequency band, was having real difficulties in giving me a stable Internet connection.
In fact it was so bad that I almost felt like giving up. But anyone that knows me, knows that a technology challenge is one of the things I love most, and I knew there had to be an alternate, simple solution – I just had to find it or remember what it was.
So, what do I think the problem was, and how did I solve it? Please read onto page 2.
