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12-10-2005, 10:28 AM
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| | | Muchas gracias indeedy! Yay! I feel all internet savvy and ready to revv it up on the information superhighway! Up, up and away!!! | |
12-10-2005, 10:43 PM
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| | | JC,
I'm sorry to ask this, but isn't this exactly the sort of thing that you have an MMM to sort out for you?
But having said that, I believe I may have one of the old-style PCCW modems lying around at home which they said that they didn't need back when I upgraded to 6MB/NOW Broadband TV and all that stuff.
If you can wait until I am back in HK next week I could dig it out and you can have it to clear your name with PCCW if that helps, since there is no doubt in my mind that the best package to get at the moment is PCCW/6MB/NOW Broadband, particularly since NOW will have the exclusive right to HBO, Cinemax and all the Star & ESPN channels from early next year.
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13-10-2005, 03:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Justin Credible does that mean...yes?
Dude, I am not kidding here...I use the computer at work...for just about everything except private mail. I dont play computer games...I dont know how to. I down know how to upload anything (I do know how to download music as my surrogate son who is 11, taught me how) other than that...I havent a clue!
Please, dont laugh...ok....laugh, but not too loud! ok, you can stop now!
But really...all I will use my computer is for:
Writing a novel (Word?)
Checking my mail
Checking my horoscope
Downloading music
MSN messanger
No surfing porn, no ICQ, no online or offline gaming. | Holy cow! So is that tantamount to a vow of abstention from incessant meeting place chatter on the 'other' site? Or is that what the 'computer at work' is for? LOL | |
13-10-2005, 03:50 AM
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| | | Dude you guys are up late. | |
13-10-2005, 09:34 AM
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| | >HKFella - why on earth would I wanna post on the meeting place on the "other" site when I am at home? Posting on forums is for people killing time when at work...pah, I have books at home...and a CD player too (shock, gasp, surprise, surrrrrpppprrriiissseee) oh yes, I actually do normal things like cook, read and listen to music....a definate "must do" after a long day of wasting time on internet forums!
>Canucklboy - hehe, thats what I was thinking when I read that...3:44 am at home? mm hmmm....I can recommend a few good books... 
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13-10-2005, 10:07 AM
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| | | Hmmm. If you intend to download music files, be prepared to front up in the Law Courts - that's what the RI Arseh0les of America & their minions in HK would say to you.
That said, there's plenty of "Streaming Audio" to listen to from Internet.
I was "forced" from a very reasonable $133 monthly charge for 1.5Mbps with HKNet when they sold us into slavery with "Spamvigator" who said that I had to accept as a minimum 3Mbps down / 640Kbps up at a co$t of $145.
Unless one wants NOW-TV, there's really little point in having 6Mbps or faster. ... and a NOW-TV installation at my abode would result in a long mass of trailing wires from the modem in my study to the TV in the lounge - so I said "Thanks, but no thanks!" [especially after seeing the wiring done in my neighbor's flat where his modem is much closer to his TV.]
As for installation charges : I've never paid any!
I've been using ADSL for 4 years & never had to fork out "deposits" - and had my Modem replaced three times... but only once for a burnup that I could confirm.
A final note : Nowadays, I find my Netvigator e'mail box to be "SCAM/SPIM/SPAM free" - the complete opposite to my old HKNet e'mail box which "lives" for 18 months after HKNet "sold us into Netvigator slavery" earlier this year.
You can't get ADSL from HKNet any more unless you are a "business" - though they do still offer snail-connections at 56K.  | |
13-10-2005, 10:18 AM
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| | | Ok - question along the same theme. My serviced apartment has wireless, but i am not sure how it all works. To use the free wireless do I need to register with a ISP in HK - and if so are there any free ones/cheap relyable ones I can use? I just need it for general surfing on the web. Oh and BTW I have a Apple Mac notebook - incast that makes difference!
Thanks
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13-10-2005, 10:24 AM
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| | | "netvigator slavery" hahaha....so true! | |
13-10-2005, 11:19 AM
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| | | Hey claireabella, can't imagine how your wireless setup works. If they provide wireless internet access then they already have a contract with an ISP. Are you paying an internet service charge? If not then there can not be a wireless network for use. | |
13-10-2005, 12:13 PM
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| | | well it says:
"We've got you connected with both wired and wireless broadband connection powered by Wireless Link " as part of my rent... but was not sure how I get onto it - perhaps they give me a number to log in my computer? | | Tools | Search | | | | | Rate This Thread | | | All times are GMT +8. The time now is 10:22 AM. | |
