Down in the City
I am at work and I am online using Qualitynet dialup again. It turns out that although Fasttelco brought back online most of its services yesterday night, their Kuwait City users will remain without Internet for another day or two. All phone numbers starting with 24 still do not have Internet access.
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Jan 30, 2006
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13 Comments, add your own...
1. fractal00 | January 30th, 2006 at 8:22 am
I feel for you man, really i do :S ..
2. KtheKuwaiti | January 30th, 2006 at 8:40 am
The other cities/towns are connected throught their local MOC Branch (Maq’sam); one link between FT and them. As for Kuwait City, its going to take a bit more time to rewire all the telephones, because there are alot more cables involved. If the damage on the cables is simple, it would be a matter of extending new cables. Otherwise .. your screwed, redoing a whole city’s DSL connections is a very time consuming process.
3. Vineeth Menon | January 30th, 2006 at 8:53 am
I stay in sharq, & my number starts with 24… I was using qualitynet dialup all evening yesterday… I only’d problems early morning yesterday…
4. KtheKuwaiti | January 30th, 2006 at 10:21 am
Qualitynet is fine (they did’nt lose any equipment, just power); Fasttelco is still working on its network .. it will take a bit longer to bring back dialup and DSL links being served by the main facility.
5. Mark | January 30th, 2006 at 10:30 am
well the IT guy mentioned something about them coming over today afternoon to fix something here in the office. Don’t know if that makes any sense, what is there to fix here?
6. Marie | January 30th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
We don’t even have phone service so can’t get dial-up. I never got around to enabling my phone SIM for tethering plus I didn’t bother bringing my data cable to Kuwait… shit, isn’t there some other way besides spending a lot of time at Starbucks?
7. q8techdrive | January 30th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Salmiya / Surra and some other Area’s DSL services are still down. My Friend, A Senior guy in FT told me that they will restore things hopefully by tomorrrow evening.
Marie - If you cant wait until the phone works again, get an unlimited EDGE/GPRS subscription(10 KD / month - unlimited) from Wataniya. Get a USB Bluetooth dongle(5 -8 KD?) if your laptop doesnt have BT inbuilt. Configure your phone with wataniya GPRS parameters(If you are lucky, Wataniya has settings for some common phones, which you can receive by SMS by calling 121 or by visiting http://configure.wataniya.com:9000/frontoffice/index.jsp)Once you pair your phone with your laptop, you will see that your laptop has detected a modem (GPRS modem in Phone)…then you can create a dialup connection to connect to internet. Wataniya guys can help you out if you dont want to do it all yourself.
8. q8techdrive | January 30th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
You can create a dialup connection with the GPRS bluetooth modem delected by your laptop with following parameters.
1. Dialout number is *99#
2. Leave Username and Password Blank.
9. Mark | January 30th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Marie to summarize what q8drive just said..
If you have a laptop with bluetooth (like an ibook or powerbook) and you have a phone that has bluetooth, then for a price of only KD10 a month you can have unlimited internet access (wataniya and MTC).
10. q8techdrive | January 30th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
hahhahha Mark! I just love what you said!
Thats all I wanted to say also, but went tooo deep. Sorry for being a mouthy!
11. Mark | January 30th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
hehe its ok, i am just worried you scared her away now lol
12. Marie | January 30th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
gghh… urgh… uh, yeah, maybe we’ll get service back downtown before I have to start getting Bluetooth dongles for my older iBook and trying to find q8techdrive to get things set up right. But thanks, that’s exactly what I needed to know. Employer needs to buy me a new phone and enable my SIM, in short, if this lasts.
Tomorrow a.m. I reckon it’s back to the Wi-Fi. For now, just stumbled over an internet place in a hotel while I was walking home from work.
13. foti | November 18th, 2006 at 8:37 am
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