Who stole the internet?

[Rik]

One day your bits will come

[Gary]

One day your bits will come

That's for Justina to know only, Rik. 

[Rik]

[Gary]

Now as long as she does not see the post....

[Rik]

 

I can hide the thread...

[Steve]

Thought he was bragging then 

[Gary]

I can hide the thread...

She would know anyway

[Gary]

Thought he was bragging then 

Its to cold for that, Steve 

[Monk]

Mine has been down since 8.15am Glad to know this is all that's happening as I've been fiddling with the router unnecessarily. We don't always read announcements, as this incident proves, and the thread has been read about 63 times last time I looked. Good on IDNET for notifying us, however, not all of their customers keep up with the site on regular basis. What about a text message service which we could subscribe to/or it could be free   so that way we're all kept up to date  with any service announcements without having to ring in or wait to find out what's wrong? Most of us have only one line so if internet is down, there's no way of knowing what's going on... unless you were smart enough to read the announcements in the first place that is.  

[Rik]

You could subscribe to the RSS feed, it's free and warned us of the work, hence we decided to put up the announcement. You shouldn't have been down at 8:15 though.

[Steve]

AN SMS subscription service does sound like a good idea although I've no idea what costs are involved.

[Gary]

AN SMS subscription service does sound like a good idea although I've no idea what costs are involved.

It is a good idea, the NatWest do one if you have their iPhone app so you get a text telling you your balance every Friday which is handy. I think it may have to be a paid for service I guess though as it may be a complex thing to set up.

[Monk]

You're right Rik, but it would be great to be notified of problems as they happen too, where service announcements wouldn't be useful. Anyway, serves us right for not reading the post. Great sunday to you all.

[Rik]

I'll suggest it...

[Gary]

I'll suggest it...

I would not mind if its  a subscription based service, but I wonder if enough people would use it to make it cost affective?

[Rik]

That's probably the key question, Gary.

[Gary]

That's probably the key question, Gary.

I fear the answer may be not, Rik.

[Bill]

I fear the answer may be not, Rik.

Agreed, I wouldn't bother... if I'm at the computer I'll see it on RSS, if I'm not then I don't care

[Gary]

Agreed, I wouldn't bother... if I'm at the computer I'll see it on RSS, if I'm not then I don't care

If I cant get online, like this morning I use my Phone to check status, so its not an issue either way, it would be a nice extra but not really needed.

[Rik]

I've asked...

[ou7shined]

Ah panic over.
I too have been struggling with all the known "home fixes" today before checking here via my phone.

I hope this hardware upgrade inadvertently fixes my issues too (pages taking forever to open). My connection has been appalling since the Scotland/N Ireland outages a while back. I'm seriously thinking about trying a different ISP to see of I can regain the level of service I used to get from IDNet.

[Rik]

Have you talked to them, Rich?

[Technical Ben]

Are we talking about community based SMS subscription or IDNet sponsored?
If there is not a website already setup to outsource such things, there should be. That way personal data could all be kept safe (IE no one here need know my number for example). IDnetters could register for updates. It could be paid for with an add at the bottom of the txt for "www.mcdonalds.com" or "Donald Russell sausages". Then Rik and the peeps here could relay a message "service down for 1 hour sunday" and the sms would be sent.

[edit]
We need something like "http://www.bulksms.co.uk/?gclid=CJvU8IbD8KMCFRZf4wodsy293Q" that intergrates directly into the forum/myspace/facebook so that people can register/unregister via a web portal. Hmm, saying that, does facebook have it's own SMS messaging service? We could start a "IDnetters Service update" page?

[Rik]

We were thinking IDNet sponsored, Ben.

[Technical Ben]

Well, as most people are able to access myspace or facebook or twitter from their mobiles now, could IDNet use one of these? Then the actual workload would be very small for them. Some simple script to copy/paste updates from the IDNet page/here to the twitter for example. There is also the App route.