<div dir="ltr">I had one ask me what I'd had for lunch once. When I replied "a sandwich", his reply was "I had rice - you guys don't eat rice, do you?".<div><br></div><div>Very strange.</div><div><br>I've found they're good on twitter though.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 November 2014 15:13, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I talked tot he 24x7 Chat people yesterday... they freaked me out.<div><br></div><div>Started asking me if I travel... had I ever been to the Philippines... do I have parties often and if I have lots of friends.... Telling me they used to live in Clarke and previously they worked in clothing.... I just politely answered without much info as I wanted my top-up. Like #wtf ?</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>...Skeeve</div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Skeeve Stevens - </b><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com</a> ; <a href="http://www.eintellegonetworks.com/" target="_blank">www.eintellegonetworks.com</a></span><font><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px">Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; <a>skype://skeeve</a></p><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><a href="http://facebook.com/eintellegonetworks" target="_blank">facebook.com/eintellegonetworks</a> ; <a href="http://twitter.com/networkceoau" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/skeeve" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/skeeve</a> </p><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><a href="http://twitter.com/theispguy" target="_blank">twitter.com/theispguy</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> ; blog: </span><a href="http://www.theispguy.com/" target="_blank">www.theispguy.com</a><br></p><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><img src="http://eintellegonetworks.com/logos/ein09.png"><br></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(127,0,127);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Experts Who The Experts Call</span></p></font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(127,0,127)"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">Juniper - Cisco </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- Cloud</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- Consulting</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- IPv4 Brokering</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br></span><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 November 2014 13:02, Matt Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt.g.walker@outlook.com" target="_blank">matt.g.walker@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Using the 24x7 teams (twitter, Facebook etc) has always yielded better results for me as they are Australian based service desk, afaik based in south Australia </div><div><br></div><div>Use TIO to aid the case, but I would urge you to use the 24x7 teams first</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Matt<br><br><br></div><div><br>On 15 Nov 2014, at 12:58 pm, Russell Brenner <<a href="mailto:rbrenner@Brocade.com" target="_blank">rbrenner@Brocade.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Skeeve,<div><br></div><div>Best thing to do is lodge a complaint when it’s not fixed in the first instance then you’ll get a case officer who will proactively follow it up (I’ve had this happen a few times recently).</div><div><br></div><div>Once you log the fault and they feed you useless info call the IVR back and say “Complaint”. I’ve found this cuts the time in half or better and they update you ALL the time. </div><div><br></div><div>The other option is to try and get transferred to the NBN Gatekeeper Team who are a bunch of ninjas and appear to be able to fix everything - and they’re located in Australia. </div><div><br></div><div>They were magic but they were also the result of a TIO complaint. There’s a similar team in mobiles called Precision.</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 14 Nov 2014, at 5:48 pm, Skeeve Stevens <<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Wonder if anyone has any easier way of dealing with Telstra Bigpond faults.</div><div><br></div><div>A number of times in the past few months there has been significant outages (HFC) in our area (Glebe).</div><div><br></div><div>They admit the problem on their Service Status page - which is a good thing.</div><div><br></div><div>But then the fault says closed/resolved... but most of the time it isn't resolved.</div><div><br></div><div>Then you phone the call centre in the Philippines and they are almost beyond useless.</div><div><br></div><div>You get them to look up the fault... they find it, say its resolved and offer to send someone out to check your setup - in about 4-5 days.</div><div><br></div><div>No matter what you say you can't get them to re-open the actual fault that is already logged and closed... you just sit there and suffer for days until enough people yell and scream.</div><div><br></div><div>One time I let the truck roll happen. They came out 4 days later... walked in, and said they knew there was still issues as there were a dozen service calls they were being asked to attend.</div><div><br></div><div>This must cost them HEAPS in wasted call-outs when they could just leave the fault open and get people to work on it as opposed to closing it and their engineers thinking everything is ok.</div><div><br></div><div>Last night an outage started around 7pm... by 10pm it was resolved and gone off the service status page, but a dozen people in the complex are still broken and experiencing massive latency and loss. My only advice to them is to yell at Telstra support, and they do, but nothing happens.</div><div><br></div><div>Divide and ignore.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there someone in Australia you can talk to who will actually listen to you and actually be able to do something about getting online?</div><div><br></div><div>I can't wait for NBNCo to take over the HFC network and get rid of bloody Telstra for a provider who cares about their customers. At least then if there is an issue dozens of providers will kick NBNCo till it is fixed.</div><div><br></div><div></rant><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>...Skeeve</div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Skeeve Stevens - </b><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com</a> ; <a href="http://www.eintellegonetworks.com/" target="_blank">www.eintellegonetworks.com</a></span><font><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px">Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; <a>skype://skeeve</a></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><a href="http://facebook.com/eintellegonetworks" target="_blank">facebook.com/eintellegonetworks</a> ; <a href="http://twitter.com/networkceoau" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/skeeve" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/skeeve</a> </div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><a href="http://twitter.com/theispguy" target="_blank">twitter.com/theispguy</a><span> ; blog: </span><a href="http://www.theispguy.com/" target="_blank">www.theispguy.com</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><img src="http://eintellegonetworks.com/logos/ein09.png"><br></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(127,0,127);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Experts Who The Experts Call</span></div></font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(127,0,127)"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">Juniper - Cisco </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- Cloud</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- Consulting</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- IPv4 Brokering</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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