Just a FUNNY thing!!! (iBurst)

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Ya well i got my self the iBurst as a add-on service to my existing Sentech 512k connection, and as you guys know if you put up a big enough patch antenna you dont get a too bad signal... i phoned iBurst support to ask where i could find the WXC (male) plug to use with the patch antenna i bought... anycase they did not know and said i must wait a week or two for their antennas to arrive.

I just could not wait.. after a few hours of thinking my plan through operation "Solder The Damn Thing On" started. and now i sit with a f**ked PC board and a no signal problem...

why does lifes lessons have to be so expensive?

so my actual question is.. does anyone knoow how to fix this?

thanks
 
No idea but kudos for seeing the funny side of this and not going into a i-burst bashing frenzy :D
 
WTF were you thinking??!!! Did you buy the modem or did you take the contract?
 
Could have been worse. It could have worked, and then you'd have posted that it worked, and then everybody else tries it and then theirs fails, and then you'd be a hunted man.
 
Source, while I know I wouldn't have done what you did, I also know that I wouldn't have created a thread telling everyone about it.

All I can say dude: good luck with the time travel required to Alt+Backspace ;)
 
Perhaps having researched it first might have helped. :D Unfortunately the only advise I can offer you is this.

Firstly a directional attenna is useless, the technology is cellular and therefore omni.

Secondly your patch attenna prob runs at the wrong frequency anyways. Iburst runs at 1.8Ghz while your antenna is most likely running at 2.4Ghz

As to fixing your problem.... there is a small switch inside the connector. It is used to disable to integrated antenna when an external one is connected. You will probably find that it has been damaged or is activated.

Locate and rectify that and you might just get it working again. ;)
 
take the modem back to iburst and explain to them how the soldering iron fell ontop of the modem... maybe they will supply u with a new one ;)
 
Source said:
..."Solder The Damn Thing On" started. and now i sit with a f**ked PC board and a no signal problem...
Source, definitely what Alchamy said!

I just want to clarify- we are talking about a UTD (I know there is an external antenna thingy for the UTC), UTD yes?

To access the UTD's pcb you must've removed the plastic covers, yes?

If so, why is it so difficult to fix operation DIY hatchet job?

While you are routling about in there, take some photos, I'm sure some of us would like to know what it looks like in there ;)
 
Yeah! Okay Okay I Did Not Do Research!!

But anyways i am taking it to a electronics expert friend of mine .. he said he could fix it, and yeah it is a UTD and i removed the covers to do my soldering work. for the fun of it ill take some before and after pictures of DIY fixup thingum and post them on my ftp site for all you guys to take a laugh at :)

my antanna is directional but it is 1.8Ghz that I did research ;)


Thanks guys
 
Source said:
my antanna is directional but it is 1.8Ghz that I did research ;)

:D Well then you should have gotten some signal.

The pics will be great, I know we would all love to see the box close up. :p

Hope your friend is able to fix your box.
 
You are probably the most idiotic person I've ever seen on the forum, and trust me, I know a couple...

Sentech's 512k sucks ass in comparision with iburst, the modem is twice as expensive, yet you decide to **** it up? DUMBASS

I've also never had signal problems with iburst, infact, I average 98% signal strenght, between my home, my cousin's place and my work (both offfices)

Whereas Sentech never gave me more than 23%, and died on me if i moved the modem 1 cm to the right.

You my friend, i shudder in saying this, has too much money and too much time. go get laid :P
 
ohhh veryyyy nice!

noone,

Thank you very much for the diss... it did me really good, we should get more people like you then there will be less forums and less people posting on them... i thought this is a help forum or a forum to discuss broadband issues, instead i get a diss... i know it was STUPID to go and try to solder on a antenna ..but i tried and it did not work... i posted it so this could maybe stop some other oak who had the same idea from doing it.

but thank you very much...

anycase i went and i bought a new modem ..so this time ill think twise before i bring a soldering iron near to it :)
 
Source,

I take it you were out of luck with the other modem then.

Any chance of getting some pics, even if it is solder city.
 
Source said:
noone,

Thank you very much for the diss... it did me really good, we should get more people like you then there will be less forums and less people posting on them... i thought this is a help forum or a forum to discuss broadband issues, instead i get a diss... i know it was STUPID to go and try to solder on a antenna ..but i tried and it did not work... i posted it so this could maybe stop some other oak who had the same idea from doing it.

but thank you very much...

anycase i went and i bought a new modem ..so this time ill think twise before i bring a soldering iron near to it :)

You know what would be even more funny? Is after all of this, you probably don't have any kind of experience soldering PC boards do you?
 
Think I agree with Source - Noone you're a lamer if I ever saw one

Hey all

I use forums for dumbass stupid questions all the time, because I, just like Source, do things that others are not prepared to do because the rules tell them they shoudn't.

And so once I've dewired, resoldered or just generally destroyed a once perfectly working or unworking object from a washing machine door timer lock to a swimming pool pump or a piece of computer hardware, I sometimes find that I have to expose my attempts and theories on the particular subject in order to tap into the knowledge of those that have been there before me.

It happens very rarely, but of course sometimes I get dissed by lamers like noone. In my experience, very rarely do these bedroom loners have anything to contribute to the actual topic, and in this instance my theory stands. Noone contributed two stupid and irrelevant postings that in no way contributed to the subject of what Source was talking about.

Let me provide an example of how irritating these postings can be, I'm sure many of you are aware of this issue, so I'm not treating you like children okay, this is just for noone.

You do a google because you have a problem or you want a driver or a solution. In your google you come across a few forum postings.

You click a promising looking link, the post contains almost the exact question you are asking.

You're using telkom adsl so of course the page takes ages to come up.

The next post after the question says "me too does anyone know the driver or the solution?"

The next post says:

"I'm also looking for the answer hey if you find it email me okay?"

And the next:

"me too I'm desperate...."

"Me too" says the next post. "Tried everything, have the exact same prob as you PLEASE HELP!!!"

"hahaha you stupid lame ass with too much money" says noone

"ad frickin nauseum"

until you don't find an answer

The point is noone there are intelligent people who can get away with being insulting in forums, because they contribute. This does not necessarily mean they are well liked.

Then there are unintelligent people like yourself who just clog up forums with useless comments, like the example above and the example you have made of yourself in this forum.

To me it's a simple thing, but maybe to you it's a fine art of the intelligentsia that you haven't mastered.

So let me spell it out for you okay, Insulting is usually a pretty ugly thing unless

1. It's directed at monopolies like Telkom or any company riding their bandwagon or
2. It's done in a way that is both humourous and informative

Now I'm a nice guy so instead of insulting you I'll just say, "You fail on both counts, but there's room for improvement."

Hopefully you'll heed the advice, otherwise I'm looking forward to your lame ass comments that will only reiterate my point further...
 
ohh my sack!!!!

Guys Guys,

Sheesh I did not mean to strt a whole FLAMING session here St3ve Thanks for your post but sheesh.

CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?
 
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