Fasttelco Sucks as Usual
Yesterday while at work I couldn’t access any blogspot website. We have a fasttelco connection here but I thought it was probably just a fluke from our internal network. When I got home I realized K theKuwaiti also had trouble accessing blogspot. I don’t think blogspot is being blocked by fasttelco because if it was they would put up a URL Blocked page. Whatever the case is, I am currently accessing all the blogspot blogs using HideMyAss. Not practical but it gets the job done.
Update: It’s not blocked anymore
Jan 22, 2006
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19 Comments, add your own...
1. Hari | January 22nd, 2006 at 8:30 am
On Qualitynet, it redirects me to blogger.com! when accessing the blogspot. I checked this after I saw your yesterday’s post.
2. Marzouq | January 22nd, 2006 at 8:31 am
That sucks!
But I usually use HideMyAss to access alot of other stuff. Its wierd some the sites they block without knowing they dont have anything on them!
Our company connection is with Fastelco, but I will test it out later.. and see i can visit any blogspots!
But HideMyAss is pretty damn good.
3. Mark | January 22nd, 2006 at 8:36 am
yeah blogspot.com redirects to blogger.com on any ISP. but try going to http://kuwaitism.blogspot.com/
4. Marie | January 22nd, 2006 at 9:08 am
Thanks for the link. It’s been really annoying not getting onto any blogger.com sites for the last 24 hours or so. I can’t get on from home or work.
5. Mark | January 22nd, 2006 at 9:19 am
Marie is this your site?
http://www.mariesworldtour.com/
if it is then my question is, after travelling around the world, why did you decide to move to Kuwait?
6. Toomi | January 22nd, 2006 at 10:15 am
Someone’s taking credit for this..
http://kuwait-n-islam.blogspot.com/
7. Mark | January 22nd, 2006 at 10:21 am
i doubt its because of that guy but still interesting to know.
9. holla | January 22nd, 2006 at 10:30 pm
fuck fasttelshit. even their internet cards suck. at least qnet has the decency to put a regular block page instead of the pretentious bullshit on the FT block page.
10. Marie | January 23rd, 2006 at 11:14 am
Yep, that’s me. I’m here for three months in an attempt to make some money. Someone is paying me to help them make some comic books (I did that for 13 years at Marvel). But the joke’s on me… I had no idea how expensive it is to live in Kuwait. Ouch.
11. Mark | January 23rd, 2006 at 11:20 am
you worked at Marvel?? thats fucking cool. which comics did you work on?
Kuwait isn’t usually very expensive to live in.. i think.. what do you find expensive?
12. Marie | January 23rd, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Rent, taxis, restaurants… for starts. You don’t get a bargain when you’re looking for a furnished 3-month rental. Or when you have to either take taxis everywhere or rent a car. And things get complicated as I don’t have residency, just a business visa.
Marvel… everything over the years. Was there a long time. Mostly “indie” stuff like Akira and Moebius as editor, then colored books like X-Force and X-Men.
13. holla | January 23rd, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Marie do you work at teshkeel?
14. Marie | January 23rd, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Um, maybe.
15. Marie | January 28th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Wow, Mark speaks and the masses follow. I can’t believe how many people are checking out my blog because you put it on your links. And even more from the IKEA ad. It’s kind of freaking me out.
17. Romy | October 14th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Dear all,
I have checked some of your comments about FT, it seems that you are not so happy with it. i am so surprised to hear this about FT connection.
18. Romy | October 14th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
I work for FT for the past 5 years, and never heard such coments about FT. I also checked the web page that you were talking about and it was opening fast enough. I feel bad to know that some of our customers are feeling bad using our pre paid cards.
19. Nosayba | March 12th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
omg! I was really happy to see the amount of posts written in this blog cursing at FT. Not that I’m against it -God forbid- I’m just glad I’m not the only one blogging about it. Keep it up. I will reference your posts in my humble blog, if you don’t mind, to support my opinion.
My story with stupid FT is posted here: here:http://psychopathya.blogspot.com/2008/03/fasttelco-releases-new-logo.html
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