Regarding the Service levels...

Donovan

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Everyone, take a moment.
Breathe in, deeply. Then out again.

I'd say it's fair and reasonable to give sentech a few more days just to make an announcement of what is going on. They are new to this side of things (consumer), but I am also a strong proponent of consumerism. Their excuses are totally irrelevant, and don't even make sense up to now. But give them a few days. You surely waited at least 3 weeks when you ordered it, you have it now and a few days of slow speeds won't kill anyone.

Do this NOW: EMAIL THEM AND COMPLAIN. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU THAT HAVE COMPLAINED HERE. Don't moan and b!tch here, only to not take action and complain to THE RELEVANT PEOPLE. This forum has turned into MyPITYPARTY. In fact, copy the entire complaint forums and email it to them.

Now, if the current service levels continue for an extended period, call sentech up and tell them to shove their modem and service (don't ask, TELL them). Stop their debit order. Simple. They cannot MAKE you pay - and I assure you, if enough people do this, they will sit up and take note. Should they try and blacklist you, take them to court. It's called class action.

It's in the contract that it's a best effort service, but this is not their best effort.


The email address you complain to is [email protected].
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Donovan</i>
<br />Everyone, take a moment.
Breathe in, deeply. Then out again.

I'd say it's fair and reasonable to give sentech a few more days just to make an announcement of what is going on. They are new to this side of things (consumer), but I am also a strong proponent of consumerism. Their excuses are totally irrelevant, and don't even make sense up to now. But give them a few days. You surely waited at least 3 weeks when you ordered it, you have it now and a few days of slow speeds won't kill anyone.

Do this NOW: EMAIL THEM AND COMPLAIN. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU THAT HAVE COMPLAINED HERE. Don't moan and b!tch here, only to not take action and complain to THE RELEVANT PEOPLE. This forum has turned into MyPITYPARTY. In fact, copy the entire complaint forums and email it to them.

Now, if the current service levels continue for an extended period, call sentech up and tell them to shove their modem and service (don't ask, TELL them). Stop their debit order. Simple. They cannot MAKE you pay - and I assure you, if enough people do this, they will sit up and take note. Should they try and blacklist you, take them to court. It's called class action.

It's in the contract that it's a best effort service, but this is not their best effort.


The email address you complain to is [email protected].


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There is a fool-proof way to get Sentech at your mercy if this problem persists.

Organise and coordinate a no-pay "strike" i.e. everyone stops paying for one month. If their incoming cash flow halves I PROMISE you they will take notice. You can resume payment once you have their attension. Late payment does not put you in any sort of (significant) contractual breach. Total non-payment is another matter.

This sort of payment strike could be well coordinated from a forum like this.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by TheRoDent</i>
<br />Except, everything is done via debit orders...

<center><h5><font color="red">Oo. MyWireless <s>Hacks</s> Tweaks & Tech Info.oO </font id="red"></h5><h6>Have you checked the fawking FAQ?</h6></center>
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Those can be frozen and re-instated with one call to your bank manager.

I speak from experiance [8D]
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by greedyflyza</i>
<br />Read the contract, you only have one option : bend over.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA [:D]
The thing to remember is that they are not doing you a favour by allowing you to be their customer. You're doing them a favour by being their customer, and paying.

Guys - just relax. They'll fix the bandwidth soon.
 
You forgot the part about SMILING WHILE bending over...

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Im relaxed actually, as long as they speed up their turnaround time on issues like this. Any hassle should be solved within 24 hours or a reasonable explanation or alternative solution.

Yeah its a very one sided contract.

excellent addition regardtv !
 
Riiiigghht...

All users stop paying sentech.
Sentech makes a loan at bank.
Sentech waits 4 months.
Sentech sends over sherif to come take your car and tv and so forth
to make up for the R15000 of the contract and some extra for damage.
You get to keep modem. You have a 'very' bad credit record for non showing payments. You suffer to buy a house or a car one day.

Sentech lives hapily ever after after auctioning off your stuff.
Pays back the loan, and even get's some extra proffit.


For the people that cannot connect. The above seems reasonable.
For the people that can connect, but has no bandwith...
**** I know how it feels [xx(]
 
/me buys shotgun for the sherif and plays Eric Clapton !!

<b>in chaos all things are harmonious</b>
<i>Tower 82 14% Signal 512k package </i>
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Kaptain Khaos</i>
<br />/me buys shotgun for the sherif and plays Eric Clapton !!

<b>in chaos all things are harmonious</b>
<i>Tower 82 14% Signal 512k package </i>
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[:D] HAHA
 
LAAAADDIEEES and GENTLEMEN!!!!

I have recieved a reply regarding the poor speeds for MyWireless from someone named Karen at sentech support.

She said, &lt;sarcasm&gt; and I truly believe this is true, and it definately does work &lt;/sarcasm&gt; that the solution is to disconnect then reconnect your modem.

Well, I definately would never have thought of that myself. Thank goodness for the sentech helpdesk.
 
Donovan, don't you get a feeling of impending doom when you think that you are an agent for Sentech, and this is the level of support your clients can expect from the Helpdesk???

LOL, btw, when she said disconnect & reconnect the modem did she mean from the tower (via software) or from your pc (USB) hehehehe...

I've tried both, whats her next good idea?
 
tried that many times... rebooted, reset, disconnected, moved etc etc...

anyway. SOME good news. I just got a phone call from Vernon at Support - and he said that apparently it has been sorted.

he said that he would contact me again tonite and make sure it's okay...

so - keep the fingers crossed. :)

I haven't lost my mind... It's backed up on disk somewhere...
 
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