Re: iiNet Belkin VOIP Router
Hi David -- -- We had many problems with the white Belkin VOIP router, which persisted until we changed all phone filters to Jackson C10s. Details at end. This may not be your problem, might be worth a look, though. Cheers - David Noel 2009 Apr 18 == From: David Moyle moyla...@westnet.com.au To: 'WAMUG Mailing List' wamug@wamug.org.au iiNet Belkin VOIP Router Date: Fri Apr 17 18:51 Hey Since we are talking about this hoping someone can help me! My house mate has an iiNet Belkin VOIP Router (white) and the wireless drops out constantly. We've updated the firmware which was meant to resolve the issue but it hasn't. Does anyone experience similar issues and maybe found a resolution? Thanks, == -- Users of iiNet ADSL2+ services be interested in a recently-solved problem with recurring dropouts of the service. -- I use an iiNet-supplied white Belkin wireless router with the ADSL2+ sharing a line with two phones. One phone is equipped with a Belkin ADSL2+ filter, and following some noise problems a year or so ago I got a second Belkin filter to replace a Tandy ADSL2+ filter on the second phone. -- Starting a couple of months or so ago, we noticed many temporary dropouts occurring in accessing the Internet. Symptoms were that, in accessing a web page or downloading a web file, access by any of our computers slowed right down or timed out. After five minutes or so, normal access would be restored without any action on our part. -- I contacted iiNet for advice, they suggested the problem could be in the phone line, the router, or the phone filters. On the Belkin router you can check the line status by entering http://10.1.1.1/status.stm, and checks showed that during these dropouts the line was physically connected but not active, also our VoiP phone connection came up as 'not succeeded'. -- On periodically refreshing the Belkin status page, after so many minutes it would come up with 'Connected', and service was back to normal. Then my son noticed that dropouts seemed to occur when either of the two standard phones had been active, incoming or outgoing. -- I contacted iiNet Support again with this information, they suggested replacing the phone filters with Jackson C10 ADSL in-line filter/splitters, obtainable from Dick Smith. I contacted various Dick Smith branches, also the local Tandy store, all appeared to offer only their own in-house brands and not Jackson equipment. -- Googling the problem for Australia gave responses suggesting that Jackson C10 filters could be got from Officeworks. I phoned their Subiaco store, who did not carry the filters, then their Osborne Park store, where they said they did have them. However when I drove to Osborne Park a sales assistant said they were out of stock. The assistant was able to look up stocks of these Jackson C10 filters at the 8 or 10 Perth branches of Officeworks, and found 3 stores which had stock, with 13 listed for Morley and 3 or 4 at two other branches. -- Drove to Morley and bought 2 of the 3 they had on available at $27.95 each. Installing these appears to have solved the dropout problem. This saga does highlight the point that one ADSL2+ filter may not be as good as another, and possibly, in view of the experience that the problem appeared to have started and grown over recent months, that these filters might deteriorate or not cope with unseen changes in line conditions. Maybe this information may help others with similar problems. David Noel 2008 May 23 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Images in Power Point
I find that images imported into PowerPoint Office 2008) undergo significant colour shifts and require retweaking within PowerPoint. I presume that this is a built in Microsoft distorting profile but can not track down information. Can anyone help. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Nagging Excel Word
Hi Ronni, Hehe... I'm not really a fan of MS in general either! Unfortunately I do a lot of work in Excel and have quite some time invested in various spreadsheets with macros etc (which is why I won't be upgrading to Office 2008). Also I guess I have years of experience with Excel and actually quite like the program. When it gets to the stage that Office 2004 won't play with the latest OSX I guess I'll have to rethink - but by then Numbers might be sufficiently advanced or MS might have gone back to supporting macros... The problem isn't with outward connections anyway... MS seems to make OSX keep prompting me to allow incoming connections - even when I've already told it to block Excel Word. No worries really, everything still works just fine - I just find it annoying when it keeps asking me and I've already told it once!! It would still be good to know (from anybody who uses Excel a lot) whether this is standard behaviour or if it is some setting I've missed. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/4/09 8:29 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hi Neil, I don't know what to suggest, I don't use Microsoft Office, I try not to use anything Microsoft ;-) Do you have Enable Stealth Mode activated in Advanced? The Leopard application firewall also only blocks inbound connections; it won¹t prevent programs from making outbound connections. Cheers, Ronni On 17/04/2009, at 8:13 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni, No, there is a little application called Microsoft AutoUpdate which takes care of all the applications in the Office package - but I have it set to check manually to avoid this sort of thing :( Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/4/09 7:41 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hello Neil, On 17/04/2009, at 2:39 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: So, a couple of queries: 1) Is this just normal behaviour (ie normal MS annoying feature) - do other users find this happens for them (assuming you have the firewall set to block incoming connections for Excel Word). Perhaps all Microsoft Products (Entourage, Excel, Word, etc) check for updates when you launch the application. Therefore they need access to the Internet. 2) Is there anything else to set (preferences anywhere?) so that once the firewall is set to block it just accepts that and doesn't keep trying to change my mind!! Have you checked the Preferences of both Excel Word to see if you have check for Updates enabled? Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: MS Word 2004 question - anchoring reference to numbered list
Terrific Adrian - precisely what I was looking for! Not perfect because the references don't update themselves in real time, but a manual update isn't hard. Many thanks, Steven On 18/04/2009, at 5:13 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Hi Steven, Its a long time since I did this so you may need to do some experimenting. What you do is insert a Cross-Reference in the paragraph where the reference to a paragraph number is used, to do this, have the cursor at the reference point, in the main menu go to Insert Cross-Reference listed there you will see the numbered paragraphs, select the desired reference. As required go to the main menu go to Edit Links and select the link and Update Now Assuming you are using the Bullets Numbering/Styles Format it should work. Good luck with it, it use to drive me mad. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 17/04/2009, at 11:41 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've created a Word (2004) document which has numerous clauses, and sub-clauses within those clauses, using a numbered list. Example ... 1. 2. 2.1 2.2. 2.1.1 2.1.2 3. If I insert a clause immediately after clause 1, then of course clause 2 is going to automatically change to clause 3. If however, elsewhere in the document, I have made reference to, say, clause 2.1.2 (which subsequently changes to clause 3.1.2), then that reference to clause 2.1.2 is going to be wrong. Is there a way I can somehow anchor a reference to a particular clause to the clause number itself? So that if the clause number changes, then any reference to that clause throughout the document automatically updates? There's probably a term for it but I have no idea what it might be. If Word 2004 doesn't do it, does Word 2008 do it? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
microsoft /mac compatib
Hi everyone This is properbly a trivial question , however : At the moment I 'm travelling quite frequently to Perth and would like to continue some officework up there. The main software I would be working on is officetime ( a timetracking software) and excel. Unfortunately I can't justify a nice macbook ( maybe it is justifiable because they last longer )..however is it possible to move files in excel between mac and windows without a problem? If I would buy a windows notebook any recommendations on which brand and how much to pay for it or has anyone a 2nd hand macbook for sale? grateful for any suggestions -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: microsoft /mac compatib
Hi Martin, For many years I have been designing Excel spreadsheets on my Macintosh for use on the work PCs, and never had any problems. Mind you I had been using mainly Office X and on rare occasions Office 2004, but I understand that the latest version of Excel does not support VBA and Macros. Hence my suggestion would be to use an older version of Office for Mac which support VBA and Macros, if you use them extensively in your spreadsheets. If not I cannot see any problem. I am sure others on the forum will help with more up to date information. Have a nice Sunday, -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale 2009/4/19 Martin Sulkowski msulkow...@bbsat.com.au: Hi everyone This is properbly a trivial question , however : At the moment I 'm travelling quite frequently to Perth and would like to continue some officework up there. The main software I would be working on is officetime ( a timetracking software) and excel. Unfortunately I can't justify a nice macbook ( maybe it is justifiable because they last longer )..however is it possible to move files in excel between mac and windows without a problem? If I would buy a windows notebook any recommendations on which brand and how much to pay for it or has anyone a 2nd hand macbook for sale? grateful for any suggestions -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iiNet Belkin VOIP Router
Slightly off topic but still on filters. My fax machine started playing up and the problem was found to be the filters. According to Brother these filters do deteriorate with time. Lloyd Hi David -- -- We had many problems with the white Belkin VOIP router, which persisted until we changed all phone filters to Jackson C10s. Details at end. This may not be your problem, might be worth a look, though. Cheers - David Noel 2009 Apr 18 == From: David Moyle moyla...@westnet.com.au To: 'WAMUG Mailing List' wamug@wamug.org.au iiNet Belkin VOIP Router Date:Fri Apr 17 18:51 Hey Since we are talking about this hoping someone can help me! My house mate has an iiNet Belkin VOIP Router (white) and the wireless drops out constantly. We've updated the firmware which was meant to resolve the issue but it hasn't. Does anyone experience similar issues and maybe found a resolution? Thanks, == -- Users of iiNet ADSL2+ services be interested in a recently-solved problem with recurring dropouts of the service. -- I use an iiNet-supplied white Belkin wireless router with the ADSL2+ sharing a line with two phones. One phone is equipped with a Belkin ADSL2+ filter, and following some noise problems a year or so ago I got a second Belkin filter to replace a Tandy ADSL2+ filter on the second phone. -- Starting a couple of months or so ago, we noticed many temporary dropouts occurring in accessing the Internet. Symptoms were that, in accessing a web page or downloading a web file, access by any of our computers slowed right down or timed out. After five minutes or so, normal access would be restored without any action on our part. -- I contacted iiNet for advice, they suggested the problem could be in the phone line, the router, or the phone filters. On the Belkin router you can check the line status by entering http://10.1.1.1/status.stm, and checks showed that during these dropouts the line was physically connected but not active, also our VoiP phone connection came up as 'not succeeded'. -- On periodically refreshing the Belkin status page, after so many minutes it would come up with 'Connected', and service was back to normal. Then my son noticed that dropouts seemed to occur when either of the two standard phones had been active, incoming or outgoing. -- I contacted iiNet Support again with this information, they suggested replacing the phone filters with Jackson C10 ADSL in-line filter/splitters, obtainable from Dick Smith. I contacted various Dick Smith branches, also the local Tandy store, all appeared to offer only their own in-house brands and not Jackson equipment. -- Googling the problem for Australia gave responses suggesting that Jackson C10 filters could be got from Officeworks. I phoned their Subiaco store, who did not carry the filters, then their Osborne Park store, where they said they did have them. However when I drove to Osborne Park a sales assistant said they were out of stock. The assistant was able to look up stocks of these Jackson C10 filters at the 8 or 10 Perth branches of Officeworks, and found 3 stores which had stock, with 13 listed for Morley and 3 or 4 at two other branches. -- Drove to Morley and bought 2 of the 3 they had on available at $27.95 each. Installing these appears to have solved the dropout problem. This saga does highlight the point that one ADSL2+ filter may not be as good as another, and possibly, in view of the experience that the problem appeared to have started and grown over recent months, that these filters might deteriorate or not cope with unseen changes in line conditions. Maybe this information may help others with similar problems. David Noel 2008 May 23 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: microsoft /mac compatib
Hi Phillip What are VBA and Macros and what do they do? And is Office X before office Office 2004? I use Excel v.11.5.4 2004 for Mac Thanks Martin On 19/04/2009, at 9:30 AM, Philippe Chaperon wrote: Hi Martin, For many years I have been designing Excel spreadsheets on my Macintosh for use on the work PCs, and never had any problems. Mind you I had been using mainly Office X and on rare occasions Office 2004, but I understand that the latest version of Excel does not support VBA and Macros. Hence my suggestion would be to use an older version of Office for Mac which support VBA and Macros, if you use them extensively in your spreadsheets. If not I cannot see any problem. I am sure others on the forum will help with more up to date information. Have a nice Sunday, -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale 2009/4/19 Martin Sulkowski msulkow...@bbsat.com.au: Hi everyone This is properbly a trivial question , however : At the moment I 'm travelling quite frequently to Perth and would like to continue some officework up there. The main software I would be working on is officetime ( a timetracking software) and excel. Unfortunately I can't justify a nice macbook ( maybe it is justifiable because they last longer )..however is it possible to move files in excel between mac and windows without a problem? If I would buy a windows notebook any recommendations on which brand and how much to pay for it or has anyone a 2nd hand macbook for sale? grateful for any suggestions -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?
Hi Steven, Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Mac will remotely connect to any windows computer with remote control services enabled. Windows servers run Terminal Server services that enable you to connect remotely. All you need to know is the remote clients IP Address (eg 202.43.45.72), or if it has a DNS host name then via it's hostname (myserver.mydomain.com.au). You don't need SSH unless the remote site has set this up for security reasons. The other issue you might have is if the site redirects RDP traffic. RDP traffic uses TCP Port 3389 and because it is an easy way to get onto a server, we always use a different port and redirect it to 3389. These are details you should be able to get from your host company. (ie IP address, port number, and user details to login) Also go to the RDP preferences before you connect. There are a number of useful items such as the login (username/password/domain), screen resolution (set to lower if your link is slow), sound (turn off!), printers and even if your drives are accessible when you connect (useful for copying files). Some of these may be blocked by security on the server. Once you have your settings you can save this for future use. Do Save As... If you do need SSH client - try this one http://www.grepsoft.net/jellyfissh.html Regards, Stuart On 18/04/09 5:00 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au wrote: Subject: Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ? Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:46:59 +0400 References: list-468...@wamug.org.au list-468...@wamug.org.au X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Thanks Rob. I installed RDC, and the first thing that comes up when I launch the application is a request for the name of a computer (giving examples MyPC, name.microsoft.com, IP number). Upon asking the question of a windows user what I might put in here, the answer was You can't connect until you succesfully make an SSH tunnel connection. What bit of software or what procedure do I need follow on a Mac to make an SSH tunnel connection ? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: microsoft /mac compatib
On 19/04/2009, at 11:56 AM, Martin Sulkowski wrote: Hi Phillip What are VBA and Macros and what do they do? And is Office X before office Office 2004? Martin , I believe that Office X was the first version of office made for OSX and comes before Office 2001 and also Office 2004 If you have any of those versions Start Excel and then go to it's help, excel help look for and click on the a-Z select M and find all the info on Macro's . Similarly find V for VBA description Macros If you perform a task repeatedly, you can automate the task by using a macro. A macro is a series of commands and instructions that you group together as a single command to accomplish a task automatically. Instead of manually performing a series of time-consuming, repetitive actions, you can create and run a single macro — in effect, a custom command — that accomplishes the task for you. Bob I use Excel v.11.5.4 2004 for Mac Thanks Martin On 19/04/2009, at 9:30 AM, Philippe Chaperon wrote: Hi Martin, For many years I have been designing Excel spreadsheets on my Macintosh for use on the work PCs, and never had any problems. Mind you I had been using mainly Office X and on rare occasions Office 2004, but I understand that the latest version of Excel does not support VBA and Macros. Hence my suggestion would be to use an older version of Office for Mac which support VBA and Macros, if you use them extensively in your spreadsheets. If not I cannot see any problem. I am sure others on the forum will help with more up to date information. Have a nice Sunday, -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale 2009/4/19 Martin Sulkowski msulkow...@bbsat.com.au: Hi everyone This is properbly a trivial question , however : At the moment I 'm travelling quite frequently to Perth and would like to continue some officework up there. The main software I would be working on is officetime ( a timetracking software) and excel. Unfortunately I can't justify a nice macbook ( maybe it is justifiable because they last longer )..however is it possible to move files in excel between mac and windows without a problem? If I would buy a windows notebook any recommendations on which brand and how much to pay for it or has anyone a 2nd hand macbook for sale? grateful for any suggestions -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
