Photo of Screamer Telecoms Equipment

Genie

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Let me not go into detail of the bad service I had from Screamer Telecoms up to now ... but I think it is worth sharing what I found when I got into my car and went to pay the "amazing" tower a visit. I WAS SHOCKED ... Yes this photo is the condition of the equipment at the Pretoria Screamer Wi-Fi Tower.

UPDATE:

OK, the meeting took place and I was met by one of the Directors of Screamer Telecoms, and two technical guys.

They agree that on first glance it could have appeared that the equipment was that of Screamer Telecoms, as the equipment in the photo is right next to that of Screamer. But it seems that I was wrong and the equipment is not that of Screamer Telecoms. I would like to apologise for the posting of the picture and any damage caused in doing so. I also apologised to the director of Screamer and in the same breath made it clear that my uptime over the last three months forced me to go these extremes.

In my defense, the service was so up-and-down in the last three months that I had to get in my car and go and find the tower myself.

Why did I as a customer had to go through these extremes in order to get a good reliable service? And why did I have to post a photo on MYBB in order to get some personal service from Screamer? Was it not enough to tell them for three months about my service experience in order for them to come and investigate my claims?

Well, it all seems to be working now and believe it or not this morning I have 100% uptime with almost no packet loss or latency. I would like to thank the director of Screamer telecoms for meeting me at the site and going the extra mile in order to solve my problems. I hope they can now continue in providing a reliable 99% uptime service.

CASE CLOSED.
 
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Equipment uses organic air venting system supported on dense composition blocks that helps to protect the inside from unwanted aquatic overflow :p
 
as we wuggers say, a wisp is a wisp is a wisp. people should stop wasting their time and money with wisps in the ISM bands which is pretty much 100% of these fly-by-nights... screamer is just a rebrand of one of the other companies because of some licencing thing they got, i think its gwi or mis
 
although the picture is hideous, it is most likely that the wireless equipment is actually sitting on the tower and its just the PSU etc at the bottom. If that is infact the wifi equipment at the bottom, people should keep even further away from them. If you got access to the site just like that, anyone could gain access, that's bad!
 
Irony is.....

The Screamer banner ad on the top of the page ;)
 
Maybe it's a temporary setup?

If so ... Does that make it any better? No ... the amount of dust on the plugs are telling me that it has been like that for months. And when I look at my service and uptime over the last 3 months ... no no no ...
 
Let me not go into detail of the bad service I had from Screamer Telecoms up to now ... but I think it is worth sharing what I found when I got into my car and went to pay the "amazing" tower a visit. I WAS SHOCKED ... Yes this photo is the condition of the equipment at the Pretoria Screamer Wi-Fi Tower.

You be the judge.

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php/photo/9075/ppuser/9296

Hi there Genie

This is either a hoax or you have your wires crossed:D. I assume a hoax because you have posted these "photos" on another thread to get maximum exposure.
Needless to say this is not our installation or our equipment and if you pm me your contact deatils I would be happy to arrange for you to visit your tower and hopefully you will post photos of your real tower here again, if you are a genuine client.

I will also be able to investigate your bad service complaint at the same time.

ps. Interesting to see how many "Wireless experts" were taken with these photos as well when there is nothing but an old 16 port switch, a power adaptor and some cable in the photo;)
 
Hi there Genie

This is either a hoax or you have your wires crossed:D. I assume a hoax because you have posted these "photos" on another thread to get maximum exposure.
Needless to say this is not our installation or our equipment and if you pm me your contact deatils I would be happy to arrange for you to visit your tower and hopefully you will post photos of your real tower here again, if you are a genuine client.

I will also be able to investigate your bad service complaint at the same time.

ps. Interesting to see how many "Wireless experts" were taken with these photos as well when there is nothing but an old 16 port switch, a power adaptor and some cable in the photo;)

Add to that the UPS shell (it looks like an UPS shell to me) as well.

Was wondering why would they put it in there.

Might be somebody else's quick and dirty setup to get free Internet via their office's network... ;)
 
ps. Interesting to see how many "Wireless experts" were taken with these photos as well when there is nothing but an old 16 port switch, a power adaptor and some cable in the photo;)

We use 48 port Switches! ;)
 
I would be happy to arrange for you to visit your tower and hopefully you will post photos of your real tower here again, if you are a genuine client.

I am more than willing to meet you at the tower and take "real" photos of the equipment. If that is not your equipement I will be the first person to apologise. I pm my details and is looking forward to your call.
 
/me rubs his hands in glee, can't wait, seeing as Screamer are on an advertising drive on Highveld and here on MyBB
 
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