September 13th, 2007 by FrankP
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Excerpt: I took it back and got a refund.
This post is a little late as I have been snowed under, but I wanted to finish out the saga for once and for all!
I was beyond my 14 day money back guarantee, but as I posted previously, I was lucky enough to deal with someone in Three who gives a damn. It's p...
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August 21st, 2007 by FrankP
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Excerpt: So where are we with the 3 Wireless Data Modem now?
Modem is still not behaving itself for all users. I, and others, experience frequent usb mounting/dismounting and 'data modem invalid' errors which require restarts. Proposed solutions do not work.
Speed has certainly improved for downloadin...
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August 17th, 2007 by FrankP
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Excerpt: Out of the blue I got a call from technical support - it was a callback I was expecting about a week ago I think! Anyway, they were very professional and helpful, and pleasant to deal with. However, they weren't able to answer many questions on my issues, but they are going to look into some of them...
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August 16th, 2007 by FrankP
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Excerpt: I sent an email to Rachel Channing, Head of PR & Communications for Three Ireland who was on Today FM yesterday (email found on a press release), outlining the issues I have been experiencing and explaining that I have to consider returning the modem while I am withing my 14 day no quibble money bac...
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August 15th, 2007 by FrankP
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Excerpt: Update: Check out my latest post detailing the response to me from the Three representative who was on the show, Rachel Channing, Head of PR & Communication.
Small bit disappointed with the discussion on the Three Data Modem on The Last Word on Today FM. it seems Boards.ie have got a HUGE number ...
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August 8th, 2007 by FrankP
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3's USB mobile broadband modem software seems to have conflicts with many fairly standard applications, be aware that getting up and running with it may not be as simple as it should be...
Update: 3 Data Modem still not working reliably unless I repeat the process of disabling services and st...
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August 7th, 2007 by FrankP
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Excerpt: While I was babysitting TomR's blog for him, I posted about my experience calling Dell about a machine on their outlet store... I did eventually purchase from the outlet store and I'll post about the beautiful machine I got soon, but in the meantime let me share this gem with you...
As one of the...
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July 3rd, 2007 by John Prendergast
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Excerpt: Here's a case study Aonach created on competing for global search terms in Google using Wordpress as a platform.
It's really important for any business to be findable within the search engines for search terms that pertain to the services or products offered. If you want to improve your websites ...
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May 11th, 2007 by FrankP
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Excerpt: I saved this one for last, because it's not quite as simple to implement as the preceding nine tips!
If you have a blog, and you blog frequently about your business, there is little doubt you will see an increase in traffic to your blog. There are a myriad technical things you can do to improve y...
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May 10th, 2007 by FrankP
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Excerpt: This can be tricky, but extremely important. Your title needs to describe the content of your post accurately, but it also needs to hook people in.
If someone has performed a search on Google it stands to reason they are looking for something, your title needs to convey that our post contains the...
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