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Continuing DNS Problems for Tonfon
Too bad I don't have any major downloads at the moment.
I'm still having problems with DNS and Tonfon.
This time, instead of just failing for a few websites (like commbank.com.au) it is now failing to let me browse any website by using their name (e.g. google.com.) I can only see a website, if I use their IP Address (e.g. www.nomoa.com's is currently: 72.215.205.147)
Simple Windows solutions? (phase 1) reboot (if that fails) reinstall (if that fails) install new hardware (if that fails - blame it on the customer)
Being as this problem continues for me, I of course am not overly enthusiastic about our Internet service at Tonfon.
Oh, I can of course go to Tonfon's website. Like, now that everyone else's website fails, I really have a keen interest in reading my ISPs pages that says they are beautiful and not the cause of world hunger. 8<
Why is this an issue?
E-mail.
Well, not only is my web browsing effected, but now I can't get my email and I am not sure whether email destined for me is coming to Tonga or is in limbo, or worse, just eaten up by the cyber-sphere.
Transactions.
If you use the Internet for anything other than just browsing (i.e. you might be a big BEBO player) then you really need to have these foundations things working at the ISP.
Prayer is a conversation
Prayer is a conversation? When's the last time you listened while you were praying?
"We've been taught that prayer involves talking to God," White said. "It's also important to pay attention to the other side of the conversation, which is listening to God. There are a number of passages in the Bible in which Jesus pulled away from the busyness of the day to go commune in silence."
Maybe Sister Mary White's message needs a little preaching, ooops, listening to here in Tonga?
iPhone - iDon't got
Walked into one of the local mobile phone vendors to get an update (my youngest daughter killed my phone.)
I picked up a cheap TOP$150 Nokia unit although they had a batch of cheap refurbished units. Geez those refurbished units looked real bad.
Who knows how many phones i've bought in the past couple of years, but I think I know the value I get out of the phones and at the moment I don't need a smart phone just so long as it has good reception (it's raining badly at the moment so I don't know whether the bad reception is the phone or the network.)
A little edged black box was in the glass cage so I asked the 'Initia, "do you sell any?" and was I not ready for the answer.
"Ohhh, you wouldn't BELIEVE how well it sells. I bought 65 and there's only a few left. At one time it was the only thing people wanted to see. Now, I sell about two or three a week."
Me: "Wow, that's good for you."
'Initia: "Arghhh, the margin's pretty bad"
Me: "But what good is it without the Internet access?"
'Initia: "I can do that for you. And on all these phones here " (waving his hand over a Nokia N95, iPhone, and other TOP$1500+ phones) "I can get you on the Internet."
Me: flabbergasted and feeling I must have slept when Tonga's mobile phone providers started offering 3G or Data.
Me: confused "but how ...?"
'Initia: "Simple, you just need to have broadband at your house, and you get this little thing ..."
Me: (mind lights up) "Oh wifi, no thanks" [WIFI is setting up a wireless network.]
No thanks, if I'm stuck at home or in the office to use the Internet I might as well jump onto a computer with a large screen.
Anyhow, you can buy your iPhone at Lord's Mobile or Narrottam's and be with the latest hippest people in Tonga. Or, you can be a has-been dork like myself and just get a friggin phone with good reception.
Met up with someone who got a phone that can activate 2 SIM Cards at the same time. Now, that would be a practical telephone for Tonga.
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