Modem unlinked from account - uncapped

vnlouis

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I have been battling with an bizarre issue since Sunday evening and it looks like the people manning the call centre help desk are not qualified to find and sort out the root of the problem. I have been reading the threads on this forum for some time now and noticed that the representative from Iburst that post on here are quite clued up so I am hoping one of you can help me out.

Ok, so basicly my problem is this. I recently (+- 3 weeks ago) upgraded my month to month account to the Uncapped+ contract which included the 2mb silver surfer.For 3 weeks every thing was awesome until Sunday evening when all of a sudden my 2mb modem just lost connection to the net and wouldn't reconnect. At first i thought it was just a network issue but when i still couldn't connect after about 2 hrs I started thinking maybe it was something else. So I disconnected my new modem and reconnected my old 1mb modem which, surprisingly connected first time without fail. My first though was that the 2mb modem was faulty but i though to investigate a little further so i connected it directly to my PC and attempt dial manually, the error message i received was that the connection is being denied because the username and password were not valid i knew for a fact that they are correct because my old modem connected just fine with those same credentials. The only conclusion i could draw was that for some reason my 2mb modems UTID was no longer associated with my account. At that point I attempted to get the call center to resolve the issue, unfortunately even re-activating the UTID on the account did not resolve the issue and that is apparently all that they could do to try and resolve the issue themselves, I was told the would escalate the issue to the systems department but they couldn't give me a solid turn around time for when the problem would be resolved. Please can one of the representatives on here take a look into it for me I would much appreciate it. My call center reference is 498706, if you need any other info i will provide it gladly.Thanks.
 
That ticket does not describe your problem and it was closed. If have reopened it and pasted in this info.

BTW: are you using the @ibuncapped.co.za realm?

I have been battling with an bizarre issue since Sunday evening and it looks like the people manning the call centre help desk are not qualified to find and sort out the root of the problem. I have been reading the threads on this forum for some time now and noticed that the representative from Iburst that post on here are quite clued up so I am hoping one of you can help me out.

Ok, so basicly my problem is this. I recently (+- 3 weeks ago) upgraded my month to month account to the Uncapped+ contract which included the 2mb silver surfer.For 3 weeks every thing was awesome until Sunday evening when all of a sudden my 2mb modem just lost connection to the net and wouldn't reconnect. At first i thought it was just a network issue but when i still couldn't connect after about 2 hrs I started thinking maybe it was something else. So I disconnected my new modem and reconnected my old 1mb modem which, surprisingly connected first time without fail. My first though was that the 2mb modem was faulty but i though to investigate a little further so i connected it directly to my PC and attempt dial manually, the error message i received was that the connection is being denied because the username and password were not valid i knew for a fact that they are correct because my old modem connected just fine with those same credentials. The only conclusion i could draw was that for some reason my 2mb modems UTID was no longer associated with my account. At that point I attempted to get the call center to resolve the issue, unfortunately even re-activating the UTID on the account did not resolve the issue and that is apparently all that they could do to try and resolve the issue themselves, I was told the would escalate the issue to the systems department but they couldn't give me a solid turn around time for when the problem would be resolved. Please can one of the representatives on here take a look into it for me I would much appreciate it. My call center reference is 498706, if you need any other info i will provide it gladly.Thanks.
 
Thanks Rooi, was hoping you would pick this one up. My user name did change from @iburst.co.za to @ibuncapped.co.za when I migrated to the Uncapped+ package. As for the ticket being closed and not even describing the issue, all I can do is shake my head in disappointment and i must admit I kind of expected it hence my reason for asking for your help.
 
Hi, Rooi. I think I might have given the wrong reference number earlier(I have a few of them from the last couple of days) please will you look into these two as well 497980, 498044. I think the last one is the final one from last night that I intended to post. I have also PM you my account and UTID. Thanks.
 
Ok everthing is sorted and my new modem is back in action:). Thanks, Rooi, for the assist.
 
Well, I was wrong about this, the situation is definitely still not sorted my account is a complete mess! Don't know whether I'm coming or going anymore and I think the help desk are even more clueless than I am so I've given up trying to get help form them, I've already wasted +- R400 in calls to those people and am not prepared to spend another cent until my issue is resolved this includes my monthly subscription, i will be reversing any payments Iburst attempts to extract from my bank account until I am satisfied they have dealt with and resolved my issues. I have PM Rooi hopefully with his influence he can get somewhere.
 
Ok, hopefully this will be my final post to this tread. Got a call back (Finally after a week of calling) from the Iburst advanced technical support guys. Looks like the problem is specific to the uncapped accounts. Apparently the modem you use to connect to your account the first time you connect gets locked to that account and you will not be able to connect with a different modem thereafter, even if you have the UTID linked(This is something the normal technical call center don't seem to understand). You see when I migrated to the new uncapped package at the beginning of the month I used my old modem to connect for a couple of days while I waited for my new 2MB modem to arrive, this apparently locked my old modem to the new account, I'm not sure how I was able to connect with my new modem for 3 weeks once it arrived but apparently last Sunday the system started enforcing the modem lock and that is why I could no longer connect. So in the end all they had to do was clear the current lock so I could connect with my new modem and get that to lock to the account instead. Hopefully all is sorted now and maybe this tread will help somebody avoid the headache I've had to endure over the last week.
 
Modems removed from my account.

Just as the topic.

Monday my 3 modems was connecting without any problems. But on Tuesday the 1st all hell broke out, i had to restart my router, after that only one of my 3 modems was connecting and the other two said Auth Failed. At 1st i thought i might have changed the password, but it was the same it never changed.

I tried resetting the modems all all that stuff, Wed the 2nd i phoned the help desk and informed them that only one modem is connecting what gives, the tech told me that oh sorry sir the "system" has removed your other modems. :wtf: I gave her the serial number for one of the other 2 modems that i had on hand. Wonderful it connected the techy told me.

Got home and the modem that was connecting doesn't connect and the modem for i added again was connected.

Bloodshot eyes :wtf:

Tech REF No: 503720

So now as i am typing I'm on the phone with support ... well been on hold for the last 20mins.


lets see if this techy can recover my modems.

Ah it's been added again my the techy, but lets wait and see until i get home tonight.
REF No: 504520
 
I did exactly the same. got uncapped, changed to ibuncapped. co.za, used 1mbps modem while waiting for 2meg to arrive. Very bad connection now. speedtest.net does not want to start sometimes. 0.07 download speed this morning.Wondering who to contact to check my utid number still assosiated with me. Should I try pm Rooi
 
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