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Re: Emtel’s Data Package Pricing Insanity

Mitchem — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 14:01:14 -0000

i like this articles.it's funny that u say 500mb is enough for u...it's not arrogant from me ,today u go on a facebk page around 80mb has been consume plus all the updates for ur pc and if u have a 1.5gb postpaid like me ,u have less than 500 free browsing remaining.horrible.my postpaid 1.5gb cost me almost 700Rs monthly.very funny i am waiting desperately bharat telecom to switch...thank again for this evidence article

Re: PostgreSQL Database Cluster Initialisation Failed Solution

scorpio — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 01:35:41 -0000

hi .. i install postgreSQL 9.1.18 and i have windows 7 32 bit.. first i create folder in c drive with the name PostgreSQL and then i follow all steps of security and add account and give full control . when i install i select PostgreSQL but at the end same thing error occured "Problem running post-install setup.Isntallation may not complete correclty.the database cluster initialistaion failed. ... help please

Re: Mauritius is not a cyber island yet. Here’s why.

Steven De Chasteigner Tyack — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:16:22 -0000

Hi,
Anyone here ? i'm Mauritian and will start a startup , i need your opinion as i'm in the i.t industry !

Re: Emtel Launches Airbox

Adrian Huggett — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 02:54:02 -0000

Yes but as you are signing for a one year contract, you'll still be liable for those Early termination charges if you terminate the contract prior to the end of your contract. the 4 months notice only tells you that they will ultimately take back their product and cancel your subscription 4 months after you noticed them of your choice.

Re: Emtel Launches Airbox

Jochen Kirstätter — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 14:34:36 -0000

Hi Yashvin,

So, your Orange Fiber contract is also with a bond of 12 months?
Well, that's a good reasoning to update the article, isn't it?

Re: Emtel Launches Airbox

Jochen Kirstätter — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 14:32:11 -0000

Hi,

Not sure why you still insist to argue about the bad weather. And no it's not WiMAX but the same principle just in an enhanced and advanced version. It's like WiFi standards a, b, g, n - Does your WiFi suffer under heavy rain? :)

Well, Orange and their promises regarding bandwidth. If they would be true why would people be so excited about Airbox? Anyway, no speed won't be guaranteed except if you pay a Service Line Agreement (SLA) for big money with any ISP. So, based on the circumstances that literally none of the local ISPs "guarantees" you connectivity - what's the problem with it now?

Orange Fiber: Check your telephone number or address online on their site. In my case it's even beyond there 3years planning, meaning sometime after 2018! Ridiculous!

Even though, I'm not an Orange client, IIRC, they also had a 12-month bond for first subscribers to Fiber. Anyway, there are two sides to take into consideration. First, if you're absolutely not happy and Emtel cannot provide the expected / guaranteed service you have the right to cancel without any penalty. Second, I doubt that you might consider to cancel if you're absolutely happy with Airbox. :)

I'm all in for the 30Mbps package, and already chasing Emtel to give some priority to the west coast of the island. :)

Re: Emtel Launches Airbox

Inf — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:38:24 -0000

Where did you see that? I can't find it on the Airbox website...

Re: Emtel Launches Airbox

Inf — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:38:06 -0000

Cheers Jochen!

Some comments on my side:

- There is no confirmation that it's WiMAX technology unless I missed it somewhere. If it's something else, it could be affected by bad weather. There's also the part where you might have to take down the dish during cyclones and cutting the connection.

- Orange's fiber was supposed to be guaranteed. Read that somewhere on the papers. There's also the act that calls for ISPs to provide at least their advertised speed. It was announced in a budget speech a few years back but I'm not sure if it's really enforced. I can't find the original source but here (https://www.telegeography.c.... I can only hope the speed advertised will be guaranteed.

- Rs. 50 for direct debit additional can be a con too for some people. Well you're already paying Rs.900 so 50 isn't too bad but it's still something. I suppose for the advantages you get, it's worth it.

- I'm not in Orange Fiber coverage yet. No idea how long it takes.

- I am considering the AirBox actually but was afraid of the 12 month minimum. Now that Tushal says you can cancel with 4 month notice, I may give it a try. Why? Mainly because it's cheaper and no caps even if I'm not a very heavy downloader. The 20Mbps is tempting.

Re: Emtel Launches Airbox

Jochen Kirstätter — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:52:20 -0000

Hi,
Good summary and I read a certain excitement between the lines.
But there are a couple of issues I'd like to address here... if you don't mind.

Despite the "effort" of Bharat as well as Orange since 1+ years to provide Fiber to their clients, it should be mentioned that Emtel just launched that product officially. Furthermore, you can check your eligibility for FTTH by Orange on their website, and certain people have reported that they might get Orange Fiber by 2018 earliest. While speaking to 2 independent people at Emtel it was said that Airbox coverage is planned to be completed by mid of 2016. That's roughly 12 months from today... Having a launch with already 60+% of the population being covered is very positive. Plaines Wilhelms region might be next on the map to receive Airbox service.

You mentioned the same con three times: Mountainous regions, Line-of-sight and big tree, house or whatever. IMHO, you might have put this into one bullet point. ;-)
That's exactly the reason why Emtel does the site survey prior to installation and activation of the contract. It's exactly the same as for Emtel WiMAX. BTW, bad weather conditions do not "degrade" the connection signal compared to satellite reception. Eventually, you might consider to review that aspect by some research.

Your argument regarding speed on Orange's fiber is guaranteed. Well, why do they write "jusqu'a" in their advertisement? And why are there some people complaining about low speed during rush hours? This doesn't sound like guaranteed service of connectivity.

Regarding the IP address, well, it would be very pleasant that Emtel would be allowed to finally offer their IPv6 services. Emtel is IPv6 ready since 2012 but obviously someone doesn't want to approve/release it to their clientele. Regarding business usage their will be an Airbox package for corporate coming soon.

Rs. 50 more if not using Direct Debit seen as a con? Hm, two rotis less per month cannot really harm anyone being able to afford such an internet connectivity, or? ;-)

BTW, what's the average installation time period of Orange to provide their Fiber service, given that you're able to have their service? Despite the ridiculous fact that they're asking you to have copper-based fixed line in order to provide you with a fiber connection.
What are the installation fees by Orange?

So, are you going for Airbox? And why or why not?

Re: Emtel Launches Airbox

Tushal — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 01:25:24 -0000

Hi. I have read the agreement of Emtel. You can cancel it if you give a 4 month prior notice.

Re: Emtel Launches Airbox

Matt27 — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:02:02 -0000

The fair usage policy is tough! That line of sight test might be a problem for a lot of people too... :/ Anyway, some innovation to scare the crap out of Orange is good for us customers!

Re: Emtel Launches Airbox

Yashvin Awootar — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 02:48:28 -0000

Just a few points to complete your post :

- Bharat has already installed their cables in my region (Triolet)

- No wires / digging.
Hmm, not really. At least 1 hole in your wall to pass the cable from the dish to your modem, unless you want to pass the cable through your window :-)

- I understand that most heavy downloaders will get trapped in the FUP because unless you are connecting to a remote machine the whole day long (or keep looping music videos / tutorials on youtube set on 1080p), I can't see how someone can reach the maximum limit legally. Even most full-movies watchable online have been uploaded illegally.

- Wifi modem / router for free
I have the new orange's fiber 10mb at Rs499 ( capped at 10gb) and they provide the modem equipped with wifi.

I'm now looking forward someone to review the Airbox at their place but anyways, I think that I'm already bound to Orange's 1 yr contrat to the fiber.

And thanks for the post ;)

Re: PostgreSQL Database Cluster Initialisation Failed Solution

Rendy Al-Aditama — Tue, 12 May 2015 23:53:52 -0000

man you're smart one
thx

Re: [Solved] Windows Doesn’t Remember Folder View Settings

Mohamad Sharifi — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:00:32 -0000

It worked for me but there is a weird problem, at start up it won't work but running regedit(and do nothing!! just opening it) will fix the problem. It's very annoying to do that each time windows starts. Please help me with this!

Re: Gov.mu changes to Govmu.org

Yashvin Awootar — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:03:52 -0000

Nicely written article. I linked to it from my post :http://www.yashvinblogs.com...

Re: Music Recognition on PC for FREE with Tunatic!

Inf — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:07:32 -0000

Not much on PC nowadays but Soundhound and Shazam should get you sorted if you have a smartphone.

Re: Music Recognition on PC for FREE with Tunatic!

DaveO — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:21:13 -0000

A friend gave me 5 CD's of music from their wedding dance. None of the tracks are named. What kind of software can I use to get the music information.

Re: Emtel releases MIFI: Share Internet Access On The Go

Jochen Kirstätter — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 06:53:41 -0000

Hi,

obviously it didn't went off as expected even though Emtel continues to advertise their MIFI devices.

Based on their latest brochure of December I picked up the idea and put it into a decent idea about to assemble your own In-Car WiFi.

I put an article on my blog about that:
http://jochen.kirstaetter.n...

Cheers, JoKi

Re: Infotech 2013 – The Review

Muzzammil — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 04:05:29 -0000

Ever since infotech became a market place, i finally decided not to make my way out there, seriously, reading the site plan brings an opinion of negativity , since the fact remains that not any professional IT companies are present there. infotech is being much likely an opportunity of making business, which initially wasn't the case. If memory serves me right, the way the stall was installed at jacey computers is no way different as from last year, so basically no investment!.

Infotech Shouldn't have Mauritius posts etc, which in its way proves that this is not an IT fair but rather a fancy fair. TO be serious, where do customer electronics such as television forms part of the IT field? If they were to introduce stuffs such as the Google nexus 5 which is in itself a new invention in the android market, i would had actually been glad to go there since such innovative are rarely heard of. How about Google glasses? If they were to introduce such stuffs, The infotech would had been much occupied of people since people looks for these stuffs.

But the fact remains that Mauritius cannot be considered as a cyber island when we have one of the below average internet connection in the world. how can you expect the IT field to progress taking in consideration that the actual rate of internet per household is 1 mbps ( i megabit). You might find this strange but the fact remains that the lack of ISP's in our island is one of the reason we are given such low internet connections. Talking about LAN gaming, Most of teenagers are affected in gaming with such low internet connections. SO one of the reasons i don't appreciate Infotech 2013 is because of the lack of ISP's.

We are living in a world where technology should progress at the speed of light and fibre optics is a must for the IT sector, but with such internet connection, we cannot expect much. Do you imagine we are below average the world with the internet connection we are using? Would authorities actually react on that? The second thing you mentioned about Gaming hardware , My personal opinion would be that we cannot expect much hardware for gaming if we do not have Water cooling systems for motherboards, Motherboards such as ASUS sabertooth , Asus Maximus formulas and MSI Mpower max. This is the kind of technology we are talking about when referring to infotech.

If infotech consisted of a decrease in countries internationalised domain names such as .mu and a discount in hosting at local level of servers, this type of stuffs would had actually lead many companies towards profits. i wished that infotech consists of companies dealing with big servers for website being hosted in Mauritius in order to prevent downtimes. I wonder if there was anything concerning web hosting and domains at infotech. If such basic stuffs are not heard at infotech, then we can gladly say, infotech 2013 was a complete fail.

I would had also been glad if there was companies who actually gave people ideas of real time technologies dealing with software development and HTML. How awesome would such initiatives be? Just imagine people being there getting the chance to know the basic of HTML, C++ , java, HTML5 etc.... This kind of stuffs enlarge the audience but we cannot have such stuffs since Mauritius is really lacking behind in the IT field and infotech is only a means of promoting business than the IT field.

If we could had people working with Google maps maker to promote businesses , that would a great way for companies to get their work done. If there were people who could help to design 3D buildings for Google maps, you would have realised how awesome Mauritius could be considered as a cyber island but we do not invest on such stuffs which can bring good to our society but rather on the economy which upon considering properly, the economy id never stable.

Great companies such as microsoft did not came for the infotech which makes us realise that it wasn't worth going. i wished we had professional companies like google in the infotech prospering the light of technologies.

I end up concluding that infotech 2013 was a complete fail according to me except the fact that sometimes they have good food at the foodcourt.:P

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Im not here to teach you grammar You'll need to correct these : :
- Most notably emtel who has not attend infotech 2013
-i did not know if it was being exposed or not ( refering to the My-T fibre)
- Did not know courts sold software ( Change this to Never knew courts sells software)
-La Sentinelle group which are pushing forth their video and online services (.) Quite interesting to see a media company in Infotech. ( use a comma instead of a dot)
-so give them a check if you need flash drives, memory cards or the like. ( change check to visit)
-HM Rawat were showing off their Lumia Pureview 1020 phones ( change were to was since you are refering to an only company)
-Pascal Computers were showing off their Asus Padfone 2 ( once again use was)
-they were also launching their www.itstore.mu website(they also launched)
-Other mentions were the LAN arena ( was)
-which we have not previously heard of before( which we've not heard previously) ( you already said previously, you did noy need to use before again)
-I’m sure many of you would have seen most of this tech before (many of you have seen)

Remove the correction part once you corrected it :P
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Re: Infotech 2013 – The Review

Yashvin Awootar — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:22:04 -0000

Strangely, I went there thrice in 2 days lol.
The first time was to write my article -http://www.yashvinblogs.com...

The second time to buy a mobile and the third one to personally ask them a question on my purchase lol.

Re: PostgreSQL Database Cluster Initialisation Failed Solution

TANMAY KUMAR SAHU — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:24:15 -0000

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Re: Cyber Island Mauritius: Not Without eServices

SueLowe — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:26:48 -0000

I have implemented an online booking system for my wife's physiotherapy practice and it has certainly been profitable to do so. Yes it has costs but they are minimal and are more than offset by the time saved fielding phone calls or hand writing emails & text messages (or employing a secretary). Some clients really love it, some don't. She may have lost some clients by insisting people use it, but those who do like it tend to be clients worth keeping.

Re: PostgreSQL Database Cluster Initialisation Failed Solution

kiran k g — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:38:01 -0000

thanks man nice job!!!!!

Re: Orange Mauritius being generous: ADSL prices fall, MyT speed doubles! (updated)

Ashfaq — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:44:57 -0000

Got a new router from Orange :) haha
http://ashfaqblog.blogspot....

Re: Mauritius is not a cyber island yet. Here’s why.

Inf — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 16:05:16 -0000

Nice, long thoughtful comment, Chris. Thank you for taking the time to write it. I'll comment on a few points.

Most University students in Mauritius are streamed into programming fields because that's what the BPO sector needs and wants. The Govt is doing its best to produce programmers. There are even specialized courses for that now. Just churning out programmers. IT is vast. It'd be good to have more diversity in qualifications.

Kids here do like the ease of life you mention, living with parents etc. That's why I think, you don't see many startups. Same reason why the youths are not active in politics or media. Too much work. Too much trouble.

I wished Mauritius became more technology driven - computerizing everything so everyone is immersed in tech everyday, everywhere. For e.g., buying stuff online, ordering your tickets through mobile phones, and various eServices. It's there, but not developing fast enough which is very sad. Slowly, we're getting more things. The challenge is getting the masses to use these services. For e.g., eFiling tax forms is very popular now. More services should be implemented like that.

I hope I was able to provide some answers to you.