(sorry for late reply -away on long needed vacation!)
Neither of the two.
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:17, Don Taylor wrote:
are talking about the smartbridges or the tranzeo equipment
----- Original Message -----
From: Sevak Avakians
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Tranzeo/Smartbridges
gotcha. I've got several thousand dollars "worth" of -unmentioned brand's- equipment sitting in my lab literally collecting dust. Missed the RMA window because most of the time I spent thinking I was doing something wrong. But now I know that their tech support is worthless. Got everything working fine for a few days, then everything crapped out -not at once- but close enough to know that I bought garbage.
Yup, live and learn, and learn, and learn...
![;-)]()
Sevak
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd be laughing too ...except that crazy little fiasco cost me about $130
more than I anticipated.
-$60 no discount (the reason why I bought the fool thing)
-$27 tax
-$15 shipping (I think shipping was ~$25. EC would've charged a LOT less,
I'm sure)
-$20 RMA to Canada
Live and learn, and learn, and learn, and learn.
LOL!
(I should state **clearly** that this was not Tranzeo's fault. It was the
kind folks at Total Access. The RMA was [cough] possibly due to my
installers not paying attention to the fact that the CAT5 coming out of it
uses a bizzare, non-standard color scheme. Possibly, but maybe not.)
Having a built-in router is a mixed blessing. Most clients don't have a
router or a switch, so they have to have *some* kind of hardware. Might as
well buy them a brand new router anyway. It's currently installed with
someone who already had a hub, so that worked out. At least it's making
money for me (finally). And the owner seems to like it.
And while we're talking about funny... Here's another funny thing for ya.
The kid (college-age son of the home owner, and buddy of mine) decides to
do his own installation. I figure HECK! It's an all-in-one. Can't screw
that up, right? After all, the kid did wire his own house with CAT5. Can't
be too dumb, right? ..right?
He: "Tim.. I can't get a connection. And when it connects, it's really
slow. Well.. sometimes its fast, but most times its really slow."
Me: "Well, dang, Ben. It was working when I burned it in yesterday. Does
the green light come on?"
He: "Um... no. Well.. sometimes"
Me: "Grrrrr. Dadgum Tranzeo! From here on out, I'll ALWAYS buy
smartbridge!!"
He: "What's smartbridge?"
Me: "Nevermind. I'll be over in 45 minutes"
--++--
Me: "Ben... where is this crazy thing aimed??"
He: "At your tower right there [points north]. I figured as long as it was
kinda aimed at your tower it'd be ok, right?"
Me: "Ben... our tower is over **THERE** [pointing northWEST!" - Crazy fool
had it pointing 45 degrees in the wrong direction.
He: "oh..."
oi, veh!
TIM
> Tim,
>
> I just wanted to say that was damn funny!
>
>
> Sevak
> diDi Wireless Communities, Inc.
> www.didiwireless.com
>
>
>
> I bought a 2015 from them back in January or so. That was before the
> abTOTAL came out. I haven't done extensive testing with it, but I'm not
> too crazy about it. It does have telnet and http access which is cool.
> Because they're here in Texas, I had to pay taxes, and I swear the
> shipping would've been less if EComm had shipped it! Ticked me off!. I
> think it would've cost me less to buy direct from Tranzeo. I wasn't too
> crazy about them (Total Access) as a company either. Got different
> responses when troubleshooting the thing
> them: "We'll give you a discount!"
> (1 week later)
> me: "hey! Where's my discount"
> them: "we never said we'd give you a discount"
> me: "but 'Joe', the company owner said he would!"
> them: "uhhh.. he's not here right now, so I can't confirm that."
>
> --++--
>
> me: "This thing quit working after 4 days"
> them: "ESSID can't have spaces. That's your problem!"
> me: "Oh, yeah.. why did it work for 4 days?"
> them: "Well... it won't work right. Change your ESSID."
> me: (click, click, click) "ok... now what? It still won't work."
> them: "uhhh.. send it to Canada for repair"
>
> *sigh*
>
> It's been up for about 2 months now (with a friend/customer. I wouldn't
> dream of putting in with a stranger after that bad first-start). The
> client has no complaints about it.
>
> Aren't the Tranzeo's just Zcomax with a different label?
>
> I prefer the airTOTALs.
>
> Tim Foster
>
>
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